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48 Cards in this Set
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Manifest destiny |
the expansion of white Americans across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God |
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John L. O'Sullivan |
coined the term "manifest destiny" |
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Democrats |
pro-expansion pro-war |
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Whigs (4 things) |
anti-expansion believed in a better developed country, not necessarily a larger one aimed to improve infrastructure of country (roads, railways, canals) opposed war |
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californio |
a person of Spanish descent living in California usually identifies with Mexico |
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Tejanos |
Hispanic people living in Texas |
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Stephen F. Austin |
American guy who rode into Texas to build a new settlement
acted as an empresario for the land |
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empresario |
colonizing agent who received a land grant for organizing a settlement |
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requirements to live in Texas |
convert to Catholicism release your slaves |
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Texian |
American living in texas |
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Alamo |
settlement which was consolidated by Mexican president Santa Anna all 200 defenders killed sparked rebellion against Mexico |
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Battle of San Jacinto |
Santa Anna tried to kill Sam Houston and army Houston was a defender of Texas Houston dragged out Santa Anna before turning on him |
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Treaty of Velasco |
treaty promising to withdraw all Mexican troops from Texas and end the war |
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Sam Houston |
president of new Texan republic war hero defeating Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto |
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Junipero Serra |
founded a chain of missions in Alta California and gain Indian allies for Spain stretched from San Diego to San Francisco |
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John C. Fremont |
Came to Monterey, California to "make maps" but was actually surveying the area before sending war-ships to stir up a revolt against the Spanish |
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Democratic Party |
held national political conventions nominated Van Buren basically tried to make a third term continuing Jackson's views |
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Whigs |
did not hold national conventions if each state nominates a different candidate, the election will be thrown into the House where they could win |
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gag rule |
rule passed in the House that prevented discussion of antislavery petitions contradicted Constitutional rights for petitions |
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Panic of 1837 |
sudden drying up of credit unable to borrow money = brokers and banks failed could not be controlled because of no national bank |
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Specie Circular |
proclamation by Jackson in 1836 requiring silver or gold coins as currency instead of bank notes led to closing of banks without enough coins |
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William Henry Harrison |
dumb Whig who didn't wear a coat and died from pneumonia that he got from his inauguration speach |
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John Tyler |
wasn't even a Whig basically didn't even follow party views at all just hated Jackson's personality and didn't want to be in a party that supported him tried to annex Texas though |
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 |
Webster resolved the border with Canada as far west as Minnesota |
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James K. Polk |
democrat who focused on Manifest destiny to appeal to both Jackson-supporters and southerners during presidential campaign |
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman |
missionaries who led a group of 70 to Oregon to establish a settlement |
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Rio Grande |
Border of Texas as claimed by many Texans and by Polk, making the state much larger than previously thought |
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Nueces River |
Border of Texas; crossing it would take you into ungoverned, neutral territory |
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Zachary Taylor |
army leader in the U.S. war with Mexico that crossed the Sabine and approached the Rio Grande |
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Thoreau |
tried to rebel against U.S. war with Mexico by refusing to pay his taxes wrote civil disobedience |
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Battle of Buena Vista |
draw largest engagement of the war Santa Anna attacked Taylor who was short on troops |
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Bear Flag Revolt |
revolt by Americans who wanted to make California an independent republic |
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Nicholas Trist |
recognized abuse of power on U.S. side and warned Mexico to sign a treaty before Polk forces them to give more land |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
All of Texas to the Rio Grande and land all the way to San Diego was ceded |
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James Gadsden |
sent by Polk to Mexico City to get land south of Arizona and New Mexico for a railroad |
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Gadsden Purchase |
Mexico ceded 39k of sparsely populated square miles to U.S. |
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Free Soil Party |
political party committed to ensuring that all new territories would be free of slavery |
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California Gold Rush |
Eastern Americans migrated to California to pan for gold |
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Chinese and Indians in California |
driven from the gold fields through violence and intimidation forced to work for cheaper wages mining for others also worked to build western railroads and developing service industries |
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Minerva |
whaling ship where everyone left to go work in the gold mining fields |
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Whaling |
black people paid equally as white people killed whales to get oil and bones |
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James Cook |
first guy to reach the Hawaiian Islands |
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William Richards |
advised Hawaiian king on how to play the U.S., Britain, and France against each other |
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Daniel Webster |
added Hawaii to the Monroe Doctrine's protection list in the event of war, Hawaii would become a U.S. protectorate |
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Opium War |
war in which Britain forced China to open ports to British products |
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Treaty of Wang-hsia |
American version of opium war forced china to open ports to American products |
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Mathew Perry |
went to Japan to negotiate and open up ports to the U.s. |
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Kanagawa Treaty |
Japanese treaty opening two relatively isolated ports to the U.S. |
