Chapter 14

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WHH was elected mainly because of his

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Strong military background and his evasiveness on volatile issues

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William Henry Harrison was the first

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Whig to enter office

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Clay sought to rill Harrison’s cabinet with

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Friends he could manipulate

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Before being president, Tyler served a long career in

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A state legislator, governor, congressman, and senator.

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Tyler could have been called an Old Republican because

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He hated the american system, endorsed state’s rights, a strict construction of the Constitution, and territorial expansion

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John Tyler was a

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Southerner first and foremost

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Tyler broke away from the Democratic party because

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Tyler believed South Carolina had every right to secede

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Clay introduced a series of resolutions designed to

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Supply the platform that the Whig party had evaded in the election. Clay proposed ending the Independent Treasury Act, and establishing a new Bank of the United States, and other aspects of the american system

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Tyler responded by refusing the national bank but allowing the end of the Independent Treasury and a high tariff. What happened next?

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Clay convinced Tyler’s entire cabinet to resign and Tyler hired a bunch of anti-jackson democrats. This lead to even more violence and Tyker was expelled from both parties

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Webster-Ashburton Treaty did what?

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Provided for joint naval patrols off Africa to suppress the outlawed slave trade and also settled the contested boundary between Maine, where he got about 7/12 of it

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What is manifest destiny?

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God deemed that the US should extend itself from the Atlantic to the Pacific

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How many Indians inhabited the Land in 1840?

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325,000

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Plains Indians were

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Horse borne nomads

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Pueblo Tribes were

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Sophisticated farmers who lived in adobe villages along the rivers that irrigated their crops

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The Apache and Navajo were

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Warlike hunters who roamed the countryside in small bands and attacked Pueblos

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Along the California coast, Indians

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Gathered wild plants and acorns and were adapt to fishing in rivers and bays.

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Pacific Northwest enjoyed

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The most natural resources and temperate climate.

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What did the white settlers do that threatened the Indians?

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Kill buffalo

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After Mexico became independent

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Localism and corruption flourished and Americans were ready to take advantage of their instability

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American fur traders streamed in to

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New Mexico and Arizona for beaver

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In 1848 Americans made up

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Half of the non indian population in California

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Fur traders were especially drawn to the

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Vast watershed of the Missouri River

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What is the rendezvous system?

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Trappers, traders, and Indians from the Rocky Mountains gathered to trap pelts and hides

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By 1849 the beavers

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Were near extinct near the rovers

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Mountain men

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Abandoned civilization in pursuit of beaver pelts and revert to a primitive existence in the wilderness

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Convention of 1818, the two countries had agreed to

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A joint occupation

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What caused Oregon fever?

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Its fertile, soil, plentiful rainfall, and magnificent rainforests

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Californians took comfort in the fact that Mexico City was so far away that it would

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Exercise little control. Californians staged ten revolts against the Mexican government dispatched to lord over them

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In 1824 Mexico passed a colonization act that granted

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Hundred of rancho estates to Mexican settlers

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John Sutter, a native of Switzerland built

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New Helvetia, the baronial estate, worked by local Indians, became a magnet for America

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In 1821, commerce between Mexico and US flourished with

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The Santa Fe Trail to St. Louis

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Amelia Knight had a diary of what horrors during the ride to the West?

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Cholera, starvation, a grave every 80 yards

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What was the Fort Laramie Treaty?

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The government promised to provide an annual cash payment to the Indians as compensation for the damaged land. The Indians agreed to stop harassing whites, allowed federal forts to be built,mand confine themselves to a specific area

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What did the Fort L. treaty foreshadow?

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Reservation concept that would define Indian life

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John Frémont did what thongs?

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He found paths that mountain me showed him, mapped the eastern half of the Oregon Trail with Christopher Carson, he launched a molitary expedition which gained wide circulation and played a crucial role in prompting the mass migration of American settlers

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Stephen F. Austin promised to

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Create a buffer between the Comanches and the settlements to the South

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The Law of April 6, 1830, outlawed

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Further immigration into Texas and encouraged Mexicans to mograte North. Illegal immigrants started to come in

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Santa Anna did what?

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Opposed slavery and got rid of his cabinet, making him a dictator

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Anna also wanted all Texans

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Out, which later caused the war

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The Alamo was led by

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William B. Travis

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What did the Texan Declaration of Independence declare?

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An interim government

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The entire of the Mexican army was killed in

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The Battle of San Jacinto

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The Lone Star republic did what?

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Allowed slavery, no free blacks, drafted a Constitution,mand demanded annexation

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There were only two choices for the struggling republic?

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Join the US,mir close economic ties with Britain

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Many white settlers were attracted to Texas because of the

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Pro slavery laws snd low land prices

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Calhoun supported annexation for the

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Expansion of slavery

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Solid Whig

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Opposition was the reason Texas was not annexed

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What did Polk do before being elected president?

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He moved to Tennessee where he became a successful lawyer, enter politics early, and served 14 years on Congress and four yearsas speaker of the House. Two years at being governor

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Polk was one of the few presidents who

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Accomplished all of his major objectives (make USA a large power) and pledged he would serve one term

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Abolitionism according to Polk would

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Destroy the Union

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Polk major objectives were to

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Reduce tariffs on imports, reestablish the Independent Treasury, , resolving the Oregon boundary, and acquiring California from Mexico

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The Walker Tariff of 1846

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Slashed tariff rates

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Twice Polk vetoed bills for

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Federally funded projects

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How dod Mexico react to the annexation?

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They felt it as an act of aggression, and dispatched troops to the Rio Grande

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The expansionists were willing to have war with Britain over

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Oregon

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The British government was unwilling to risk war over a

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Remote wilderness territory for the profitable trade with the US. Called the Buchanan-Pakenham Traety

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Polk ordered several thousand troops under

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Zachary Taylor to take up positions in Corpus

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Polk's scheme to provoke an attack

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Worked, as Mexican soldiers killed US soldiers

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Why was the north opposed to War?

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Because they assumed that Polk wanted to expand slavery

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Abraham Lincoln did what?

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He introduced spot resolutions where he called President Polk to identify the spot where Mexico fired. It might be in Mexico soil.

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Why was Winfield Scott scratched from the army?

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He quarreled with Polk's secretary of war

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How did Santa Anna return to power?

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Polk assured that the US would pay any money from any Mexico territory. Santa Anna was permitted through the American blockade at Veracruz where he rose into power

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The Battle of Buena Vista did what?

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It was when neither side could take victory. Last major action on the central Mexican front, and Taylor could go home

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Winfield Scott's army went on a

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Similar strategy of Cortés and captured Mexico City

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Treaty of Guadolope Hildago

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Mexico gave up all claims to Texas above Rio Grande, New Mexico, and California