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Annexation In joint resolution, Congress annexed Texas into the US and it became a new state in December 1845.
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Texas
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The former Democratic Speaker of the US House of Representatives won the 1844 Presidential election 170-105 over Whig Henry Clay in the Electoral College, and also won the national popular vote 1,338, 464 to Clay's 1,333,097 with the new Liberty Party candidate James Birney winning 62k, mostly in New York
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James Polk
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The phrase used by New York newspaper-publisher John O'Sullivan that the US should expand to take all of North America.
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Manifest Destiny
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The US Senate ratified a treaty with Britain which divided the Oregon Country between Canada and the US along the 49th Parallel to Puget Sound.
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Oregon
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US negotiator who offered $25 million to Mexico for California and New Mexico in 1845, but the Mexicans refused to negotiate.
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John Slidell
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Began in early May 1846 when Mexicans attacked US forces north of the Rio Grande River in Texas which caused Congress to declare war on May 11, 1846.
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Mexican-American War
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US General whose army routed the Mexican army in Texas and then won the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista.
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Zachary Taylor
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US Colonel whose forces captured New Mexico without firing a short on Auguest 18, 1846.
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Stephen Kearny
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US explorer who led US residents in California to declare independence from Mexico.
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John Fremont
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– US General who commanded a US army to victory from Vera Cruz, Mexico to Mexico City, which he captured on September 13, 1847. Scotts army won five major battles along the march from Vera Cruz to Mexico City.
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Winfield Scott
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Mexico signed a peace treaty giving the US California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming for 15$ million. The US Senate ratified the treaty, 38-10 on March 10, 1848.
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Guadalipe-Hidalgo
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US carpenter discovered gold near Sutterb Mill on January 24, 1848 which caused the population of California to soar from 15,000 in 1848 to 250,000 by 1852.
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James Marshall
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Grew from 150 people in 1846 to 50,000 by 1850 because of the massive influx of people.
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San Francisco
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Whig US General who won the 1848 Presidential election 163-127 over Michigan US Senator Lewis Cass and 1,300k to 1,200k in the national popular vote with Free Fail Candidate Martin Van Buren.
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Zachary Taylor
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The idea of US Senator Lewis Cass that the voters in the western US territories should have the right to vote whether their territory would allow slavery or not.
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Popular Sovereignty
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Inventor of the telegraph machine and the “Morse Code” that revolutionized rapid communication across the US.
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Samuel Morse
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Beginning with the duagartypes, photography became popular in the US as well, becoming a major business.
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Photography
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A major debate began in the US Senate over California’s request for statehood because it would give an advantage to the northern “Free States” while there was not enough people in any southern area to come in as a “Slave State”.
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California
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Whig Vice President from New York who became President of the US on July 9, 1850 when President Taylor died from gastroenteritis. Fillmore supported the Compromised of 1850 and signed it into law.
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Millard Fillmore
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Won the Presidential election 254-42 in the Electoral College over Whig candidate US General Winfield Scott, and also won the national popular vote to Scott’s with Eree Sail nominee John Hale winning not much.
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Franklin Pierce
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Democratic US Senator from Illinois who pushed the compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act through the US Senate. He supported Popular Sovereignty.
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Stephen Douglas
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It divided the region into territories and allowed popular sovereignty to determine whether each future state would be free or slave.
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Kansas Nebraska Act
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Organized in Jackson, Michigan to oppose the expansion of slavery into the territories.
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Republican Party
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James Gadsden, a negotiator from the US, bought the region of Mexico.
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Gadsden Purchase
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