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30 Cards in this Set
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Joseph Smith
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*leader of the Mormans who established Morman Church in NY then moved to Illinois
*later jailed for treason in 1844 and was murdered by an anti-Morman Mob |
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Brigham Young
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*Smith's successor
*moved Mormans beyond US bountaries and started Salt Lake City in 1847 |
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Salt Lake City
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Mormans gave plots of land to each family and they soon had settlements and farms through irrigation
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54'40 Or Fight
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Polk wanted to annex the entire Oregon Territory
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49th Parallel
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land north of 49th parallel was deemed unsuitable for agriculture by Polk's advisors, so both countries peacefully agreed to extend the mainland boundary with Canada
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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1842: settles disputes over Maine and Minnesota with Britain
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Santa Anna
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1844: SA no longer leader
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John Slidell
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Spanish-speaking emissary sent to purchase California, New Mexico, and Rio Grande border, but was rejected
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James K. Polk
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won election of 1844. theme was expansion
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Rio Grande
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desputed territory between Texas and Mexico
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Zachary Taylor
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"Old Rough and Ready"
sent by Polk to blockade Rio Grande and also captured Monterrey, Mexico |
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Texas
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annexed into the US in 1845
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Wilmot Proviso
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a bill introduced so that no states that came frm the war with Mexico could be considered slave states
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John C. Fremont
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led an (illegal) exploration of California
led settlers in the seizure of Sononma, CA and declared CA its on Republic |
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"American Blood on American Soil"
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Basis of Polk wanting to declare war with Mexico after the Matamoros Fight
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Colonel Stephen Kearny
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1846: "The Long Marcher"
Marches his troops 800 miles to NM and is met by a contigent of upper-class Mexicans who wanted to annex with the US |
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Winfeild Scott
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Scott: Old Fuss and Feathers
*captures Veracruz Island and Mexico City |
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Yellow Fever
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cause of 11,000 out of 13,000 deaths in the Mexican War
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Feb 2, 1848: Mexico agrees to Rio Grande border for TExas and gives NM, CA to US. $15 million is paid for CA, NV, NM, UT, CO, WY
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Spot Resolution
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Lincoln asks Polk to certify where the 9 Americans were killed, therefore proving that "American Blood was shed on American soil" officially
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Henry David Throreu
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Thoreau Believed in "civil disobedience" and wrote about the right to protest a government with non violence
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Sutter's Mill
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Gold is discovered by James Marshall while working on Sutter's Mill
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49ers
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prospectors who flocked to CA during the 1849 Gold Rush
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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first woman to graduate from Medical School: opens the New York Infirmary for Women and Children
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Catharine Beecher
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undertakes a national survey on women's heath and discovers that for every healthy woman there were 3 sick ones
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Amelia Bloomer
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1st women to rebel by wearing "bloomers"
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Declaration of Sentiments
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Stanton and Mott compose a statement of grievances modeled after the Declaration of Independence
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Elective Franchise
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controversial women's rights aim to allow women to vote
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Election of 1848
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Whigs: Zachary Taylor
Democrat: Cass lewis MVB |
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Free-Soil Party
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MVB supports no extention of slavery in the new territories
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