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John Tyler
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The new president was John Tyler, a Virginian gentleman who was a lone wolf.
He did not agree with the Whig party, since the Whigs were pro-bank and pro-protective tariff, and pro-internal improvements, but hailing from the South, he was not. Tyler was really more of a Democrat. |
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John Slidell
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The U.S. then sent John Slidell to Mexico City as an envoy instructed to buy California for $25 million, however, once he arrived, the Mexican government, pressured by its angry people, refused to see him, thus “snubbing” him.
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Zachary Taylor
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A frustrated Polk now forced a showdown, and on Jan. 13, 1846, he ordered 4000 men under Zachary Taylor to march from the Nueces River to the Rio Grande, provocatively near Mexican troops.
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James K Polk
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president who gained california, mexico, oregon on the 49th, and lowered the tariff Restore the independent treasury (put U.S. money into non-government banks) and was super stubborn. Elected in 1844
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David Wilmot/Wilmot Proviso
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introduced his Wilmot Proviso (a provision or amendment), which stated that slavery should never exist in any of the Mexican Cession territories that would be taken from Mexico; the amendment was passed twice by the House but it never got passed the Senate (where southern states equaled northern).
Although it failed, the importance of the Wilmot Proviso lay in the fact that it opened old wounds—those of slavery. |
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John C. Fremont
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Leader of the Bear Flag revolt. Took over California when the war started he just happened to be there
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Spot Resolutions
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A group of politicians, though, wanted to know where exactly was the spot of the fighting before committing to war; among them wasAbraham “Spotty” Lincoln because of his “Spot Resolution.”
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Tariff of 1842
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The Whigs redrafted and revised the tariff, taking out the dollar-distribution scheme and pushing down the rates to about the moderately protective level of 1832 (32%), and Tyler, realizing that a tariff was needed, reluctantly signed it.
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Caroline
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in 1837, an American steamer, the Caroline, was attacked in N. and set afire by a British force.
Tensions were high afterwards, but later calmed; then in 1841, British officials in the Bahamas offered asylum to some 130 revolting slaves who had captured the ship Creole. |
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Treaty of Guadalupe
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1848, which…
Gave to America all Mexican territory from Texas to California that was north of the Rio Grande. This land was called the Mexican Cession since Mexico ceded it to the U.S. U.S. only had to pay $15 million to Mexico for it. $3.5 million in debts from Mexico to the U.S. were absolved as well. In essence, the U.S. had forced Mexico to "sell" the Mexican Cession lands. |
