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27 Cards in this Set
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Candidate in election of 1844 against Polk. Polk wins.
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Henry Clay
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Established first American settlement in TX in 1822.
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Stephen Austin
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Most settlers in TX were...
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Southerners: Cotton and slaves
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Dictator that led army into Texas.
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Santa Anna
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Who won the battles at the Alamo and Goliad?
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Americans
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What happened in the battle of San Jacinto?
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Defeat of Mexico and Santa Anna is captured
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How did the Mexican War start?
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When TX became a state Mexico broke off all relations with the US
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Where did Texas believe the boundary was?
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At Rio Grande
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Where did Mexico believe the Boundary was?
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At Nueces River
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In the boundary dispute between Texas and Mexico, What did President Polk decide where the boundary was?
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At Rio Grande; In favor of Texas
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Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott belonged to what party?
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Whig
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The objective of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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to settle land to create a railroad.
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What was the Gadsen Purchase?
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A $10 million purchase from Mexico for land
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What compromise was repealed in the Nebraska-Kansas Act?
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MO Compromise
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The name of the time period when people flooded Kansas from both sides of slavery and it was a dangerous place.
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Bleeding Kansas
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Abolitionist that wanted to lead a slave revolt by raising an army of free slaves.
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John Brown
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Brown and followers raided US Ammunition Depot to capture weapons
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Harper's Ferry
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Pro-slavery supporters wrote this constitution legalizing slavery
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Lecompton Constitution
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Court ruling of Dred Scott v Sanford.
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Scott was not a citizen but property and could not sue
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Mexico agreed to cede California and New Mexico to the US and acknowledge Rio Grande as boundary
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Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
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This man tried to mend the sectionalism of the North and South. Tried 3 times to become president.
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Daniel Webster
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Last member of the Whig party to hold precidency
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Millard fillmore
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This compromise was drafted by Clay.Kept peace between the north and south for four years.
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Compromise of 1850
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15th President. Signed the Ostenend Manifesto.
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James Buchanan
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Document the detailed the purchase of cuba from spain.
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Ostend Manifesto
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16th President that was a Whig Leader. Won as a Republican.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Opposed Slavery, Republican, denied presidential nomination and was a part of Lincoln's cabinet.
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William Seward
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