Jeopardy

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Jeopardy
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answer. You must give the correct question.
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Mexican War
Slavery
Oregon Trail
California Gold Rush
Acts Such
Manifest Destiny
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This is the area of land once owned by Mexico,
but acquired by the United States after the end
of the Mexican-American War.
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The Mexican Cession
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These years span the duration of the
Mexican-American War.
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1846 - 1848
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This is the name of the treaty which brought an
end to the Mexican-American War.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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This man was President of the United States
during the Mexican-American War.
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James K. Polk
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This Mexican President/Commander was defeated at
the Battle of Buena Vista by Zachary Taylors
troops.
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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This term is defined as the act of formally
destroying something through legal means, either
by making it illegal, or simply no longer
allowing it to exist in any form.
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Abolition
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This phrase was commonly used in referring to
slavery.
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The Peculiar Institution
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This man was active in the abolitionist movement
and was known for being the editor of The North
Star newspaper.
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Frederick Douglass
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This man was actively involved in the
abolitionist movement and was the editor of The
Liberator newspaper.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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This term is defined as a tendency among sections
in a bureaucracy to focus solely on the interests
of a section and NOT on the benefits of the whole.
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Sectionalism
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The painting shown here beholds the idea of
this belief that the United States had the divine
path to move westward.
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Manifest Destiny
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During Manifest Destiny, this is the territory
that was most notably settled.
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The Oregon Territory
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This is the man that coined the term Manifest
Destiny.
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John L. OSullivan
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This is the parallel that divides the Oregon
Territory from British Territory.
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49th Parallel
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This is the name of the magazine where the term
Manifest Destiny first appeared.
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The Democratic Review
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The illustration shown highlights this path that
pioneers took westward.
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The Oregon Trail
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This city was the most common starting place for
wagon trains setting out on the Oregon Trail.
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Independence, Missouri
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The illustration shown highlights the trail
westward taken by this famous group of pioneers
that met with misfortune.
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The Donner Party
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This is the name of the man who gave The Donner
Party bad directions.
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Lansford Hastings
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This was the disease that killed many of the
pioneers that traveled westward.
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Cholera
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This is the year most notorious for the
California Gold Rush.
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1849
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This man was responsible for making pants that
were durable for miners, which eventually became
known as blue jeans.
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Levi Strauss
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This man is the one who found gold and sparked
the California gold rush.
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John Marshall
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This is the name of the place where gold was
discovered in California.
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Sutters Mill or Sutters Fort
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This nickname was given to those people who
traveled west to mine for gold.
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Forty-niners
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In December of 1845, Texas was admitted into the
Union as the 28th state when Congress approved
this measure.
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The Texas Annexation
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This document presented a stipulation that none
of the territory acquired in the Mexican War
should be open to slaveryit was never passed by
Congress.
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The Wilmot Proviso
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Also known as Clays Resolutions, this resolved 5
points concerning questions of controversy arisen
by the institution of slavery.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1850
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This stated that slavery would be prohibited
north of 36 degrees 30 minutes and that slavery
would be allowed south of 36 degrees 30 minutes.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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This Act, passed by Congress in 1854, divided
territory into areas North and South of the 49th
parallel, and each territory was allowed to
separately decide whether or not to allow slavery
within its borders.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Final Jeopardy
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This is the name of the famous ghost town,
located in eastern California, that used to be a
prosperous city during the California mining
years.
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