CHAPTER 17
54 40'Pledge
"54 40 or fight" This was the boundary line that Americans wanted for the Oregon Territory. Threatened British with war of this was not agreed upon.
California, 1845
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Oregon settlement (1846)
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Polk war message (1846)
A speech given to the Senate and House of Reps. concerning the Mexican War.
Nicholas P. Trist
Chief clerk of the state department sgned the treaty of guadalupe Hidalgo
Oregon Country
Conflicted over by britian and U.S.; Britian had a small colony who had all intetions of claiming the colombia river.
James K. Polk (1844)
Democrat ( face or inspired expansion) contributed to manifes destiny
Father Junipero Serra
Founded a chain of 21 missions along the California coast
Hudson's Bay Company
Fur trading company
Battle of Buena Vista (1847)
Key American victory against Mexican forces in the Mexican-American War. Elevated General Zachary Taylor to national prominence and helped secure his success in the 1848 presidential election.
Capt. John C. Fremont
Known as the great pathfinder
Gen. Santa Anna
Leader of the Mexican war effort
"Californios"
Native californians that remained in the territory after it was purchased by the U.S.
Nueces River (1846)
Part of the territory that was a border dispute also were troops were sent with orders to wait for the declare of war against Mexico
1844 election
Polk won with intentions of expanding and lowering tariff from 32% to 25%
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Resolved the land despute between the U.S. and Mexico
John Slidell mission (1845)
Sent to Mexico when rumors of Britian planning to buy california; went in with an offer of 25 milliion dollars
Canadian insurrection (1837)
The Rebellions of 1837 were a pair of Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838 in response to frustrations in political reform. A key shared goal was the allowance of responsible government, which was eventually achieved in the incident's aftermath.
Caroline incident (1837)
When the British seized and then burned the USS Caroline after she had provided aid and supplies to Canadian rebels. Strained relations between the British and the United States, but led to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty which resolved the northeastern border between the United States and Canada.
Daniel Webster
Whig Party
Henry Clay
Whig Party
Admission of Texas (1845)
admission was acceoted and Texas was added in December of 1845 making it the 28th state to be admitted to the U.S.
Wilmot Proviso (1846)
ammendment drafted with intentions to keep mexico a anti-slave state
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
an issue of building a road dispute gave 7,000 mi out of 12,000
Texas Republic
applied for states-ship after declaring itself independent from mexico
Texas border dispute
between mexico and america Buena vista and the nueces river
Bear Flag Republic
california
Vera Cruz/Mexico City (1847)
invaded and taken over by american troops
Gen. Zachary Taylor
lead 4,000 into the rio grande under the orders of Polk with intentions to declare war
Gen. Stephen W. Kearny
led 1,700 troops to santa fe
Oregon Trail (1840s)
old wagon route used during the expansion of manifest destiny
John Tyler (1841)
successor to Harrison after death took in the whig policies vetoed Bank of U.S.; lowered tariffs (Democrat @ heart)
Gen. Winfield Scott
suceded in battaling mexico city; choose by abraham lincon to lead the union
William Henry Harrison (1841)
was an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States, and the first President to die in office. His death created a brief constitutional crisis, but ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment. Led US forces in the Battle of Tippecanoe.(Died of Pnemuia)