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20 Cards in this Set
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John Tyler
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Hoped to bring Texas into the union
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James K Polk
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chosen by the party to annex Texas
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fifty-four forty or fight
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wanted all oregon to the line of 54° 40' north latitude
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three prong military strategy
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troops moved south, north and west to gain those territory
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Bear flag republic
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california independent of mexico and was renamed BFR
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (peace treaty)
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mexico ceded, or gave up 500,000 square miles of territory
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what was the united states military strategy during the mexican war
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the three prong strategy and then advance to mexico city and force mexico to surrender.
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controversy between mexico and the united states over texas
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texas had a significant amount of slaves living there. the US wanted
that state in the union |
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abolitionism
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end slavery in the US
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gradualism
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belief that slavery had to be ended gradually
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colonization
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to send african american back to africa
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two religious group to originally oppose slavery
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baptis, quakers
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david walker
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published appeal to the colored Citizens of the world. advocated vviolence and rebellion as only means to end slavery
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william lloyd garrison
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founded bostons antislavery newspaper (Genius of Universal emancipation
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enancipation
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freeing of all enslaved people
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nat turner
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an enslaved preacher. led an uprising
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sojourner Truth
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abolishionis, no formal education, eloquent, antislavedy speeches.
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reaction of freed slaves to the north
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a dangerous threat to the social system and slaves would take all the jobs
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reaction in the south of freed slaves
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it was their way of life and slaves wanted to be slaves and they would fight to keep slaces
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frederick douglass
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thinker, speaker, wrote auto bio (narritive of the life of Frederick douglass)
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