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25 Cards in this Set
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Alamo
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mission and fort that was the site of a siege and battle during the Texas Revolution
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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political opportunist and general who served as president of Mexico 11 different times and commanded the Mexican army during the Texas Revolution
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compromise of 1850
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proposal by Henry Clay to settle the debate over slavery in territories gained from the Mexican war
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Franklin Pierce
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northern democratic president w/ southern principles
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free soil party
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formed from the remnants of the liberty party. "free soil, free speech, free labor,& free men. opposed spread of slavery into territories. adsorbed into the republican party by 1856.
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Gadsden Purchase (1853)
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US acquisition of land south of the Gila River from Mexico for $10million
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James Polk
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democratic president from 1845 to 1849, nicknamed "young hickory". pursued an aggressive foreign policy that led to the Mexican War, settlement of the Oregon issue, and the acquisition of the Mexican Cession
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John L. O'Sullivan
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influential editor of the "Democratic Review" who coined the phrase "manifest destiny" in 1845
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
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Stephen Douglas's bill to open western territories, promote a transcontinental railroad, and boost his presidential ambitions
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know-nothing party
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influential 3rd party of the 1840's; opposed immigrants, esp. catholics, and supported temperance, a waiting period for citizenship, and literacy tests
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Lewis Cass
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democratic senator who proposed popular sovereignty to settle the slavery question in the territories
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manifest destiny
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set of ideas used to justify American expansion in the 1840's
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Mexican cession
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region compromising California and all or other parts of the states of the American southwest
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Nashville convention
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meeting of representatives of 9 southern states in the summer of 1850 to monitor the negotiations over the compromise of 1850
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Ostend manifesto (1854)
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statement by American envoys abroad to pressure Spain into selling Cuba to the US
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popular sovereignty
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political process promoted by Lewis Cass, Stephen Douglas and other northern democrats, whereby, when a territory organized, its residents would vote to decide the future of slavery
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republican party
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political party formed in 1854 in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act; combined remnants of whig, free soil, know-nothing parties as well as disgruntled democrats
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Sam Houston
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leader of the Texas revolutionaries. 1st president of the republic of Texas. and later a US senator from the state of Texas
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"slave power"
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belief that a slave-holding oligarchy existed to maintain slavery in the south, and to spread it throughout the US
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Stephen Austin
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leader of American immigration to Texas in the 1820's; he negotiated land grants with Mexico and tried to moderate growing Texan rebelliousness in the 1830's
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Stephen Douglas
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leading democratic senator in the 1850's; nicknamed the "little giant" for his small size and great political power
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treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
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agreement that ended the Mexican war
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wilmont proviso
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measure introduced in congress in 1846 to prohibit slavery in all territory that might be gained by the Mexican war
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Winfield Scott
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arguably the finest military figure in America from the war of 1812 to the civil war
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Zachary Taylor
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military hero of Mexican war and the last whig elected president
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