Chapter 13 Homework
Identify and explain the significance of each term.
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Manifest Destiny
Californios
“Fifty-four forty or fight!”
Conscience Whigs
Wilmot Proviso
Free soil movement
Squatter sovereignty
Forty-niners
“slavery follows the flag”
Compromise of 1850
Personal liberty laws
Gadsden Purchase
Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act
American, or Know-Nothing Party
“Bleeding Kansas”
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Freeport Doctrine
Key People
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James K. Polk
Frederick Douglas
Zachary Taylor
Lewis Cass
Stephen Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Review Questions WRITE THE QUESTIONS
27. In what specific ways did the ideology of Manifest Destiny influence events during the 1840s and
1850s?
28. What were the main constitutional arguments presented during the debate over slavery in the
territories? Which of those arguments influenced Chief Justice’s Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott?
29. How did the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision seek to
address the issue of slavery, and what was the effect of each of them on sectional conflicts?
30. What was Lincoln’s position on slavery and people of African descent during the 1840s and
1850s?