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34 Cards in this Set
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Mountain men
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trappers and explorers who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s
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Rendezvous
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Companies would haul supplies to specific mountain locations in the spring, engage in trading with trappers, and bring pelts back to communities on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in the fall.
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Oregon Trail
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The Oregon Trail helped the United States implement its cultural goal of Manifest Destiny,The five to six month journey spanned over half the continent as the wagon trail proceeded 2,170 miles
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Stephen F. Austin
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known as the "Father of Texas",led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by the United States.
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Santa Anna
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He was President of Mexico & was a Mexican political leader who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government
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The Alamo
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is a former mission and fortress compound,Battle of the Alamo, one of the pivotal battles between the forces of the Republic of Texas and Mexico during the Texas Revolution.
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Sam Houston
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President of the Republic of Texas, Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor.a slaveowner and opponent of abolitionism
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Battle of San Jacinto
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was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texas Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen minutes.
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James K. Polk
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Polk secured the Oregon Territory,completed the acquisition of most of the current contiguous 48 states.
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John Slidell
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negotiate an agreement whereby the Rio Grande River would be the southern border of Texas.Mexican government rejected Slidell's mission, and the United States declared war on Mexico
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Zachary Taylor
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President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready,"
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Battle of Buena Vista
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led by Zachary Taylor, in northern Mexico
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Winfield Scott
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Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers",Scott displayed a U.S. military doctrine that would be used in every subsequent war,Mexican-American War
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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is the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War,in exchange for US$15 million,parts of the modern-day U.S. states of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, as well as the whole of California, Nevada, and Utah.
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Wilmot Proviso
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was to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
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Lewis Cass
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United States Secretary of War, he was appointed Governor of the Michigan Territory
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Popular sovereignty
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The people of a new state could decide if they would have slaves or not
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Free Soil Party
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opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories,free soilers were against the expansion of slavery but not the idea of slavery
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Millard Fillmore
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succeeding Zachary Taylor who died. Fillmore was never elected President
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Stephen A. Douglas
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proposing the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854,Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Franklin Pierce
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took part in the Mexican-American War,nominated for president as a dark horse candidate & won
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Young America Movement
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It advocated free trade, expansion southward into the territories, and support for republican movements abroad,
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Ostend Manifesto
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was a secret document written in 1854 by U.S. diplomats at Ostend, Belgium, describing a plan to acquire Cuba from Spain
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.
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John Brown
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was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection and murder as a means to abolish slavery.in Harpers Ferry, hanged
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Charles Sumner
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antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans,severe beating in 1856 by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks's cane
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Preston Smith Brooks
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notorious for brutally assaulting senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate.
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Know Nothing Party
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fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants,
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John C. Frémont
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"The Great Pathfinder",served in Mexican-American War
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Dred Scott
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was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom
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John C. Breckinridge
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Confederate commander at the Battle of New Market, where young VMI cadets participated in the battle on the Confederate side
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Jefferson Davis
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President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War
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Robert E. Lee
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Lee's greatest victories were the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of Chancellorsville,Lee was decisively defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg
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Lecompton Constitution
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was the second of four proposed constitutions for the state of Kansas
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