CHAPTER 17

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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)


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