Chapter/ Paccket 16 Flashcards
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Tariff of 1842
imposed high duties on goods produced within the United States, including cotton and woolen goods.
Charles’s dickens
wrote letters during the war with Britain, the war with only words.
Frances Trollope
successful Victorian novelist and one of the most prolific writers of his time. His most famous works are his six Barsetshire novels, published between 1855 and 1867, and his six Palliser novels, published between 1864 and 1880.
Caroline the ship
The ship that was sunk by British force.
Aroostock war
1838–39), bloodless conflict over the disputed boundary between the U.S. state of Maine and the British Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Lord Ashburn
was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring family. Sent to the United States to establish settlement with Webster upon Maines boundary lines.
Manifest Destiny
the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
Fifty four forty or line
The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes.
Liberty party
was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s. The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause and it broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society to advocate the view that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document.
Walker Tariff
moved rates downward towards revenue-only levels and dropped the policy of an ad valorem rate (a percent of the value of the goods) in favor of a set rate regardless of the value.
Spot resolution
The resolutions requested President James K. Polk to provide Congress with the exact location (the “spot”) upon which blood was spilled on American soil, as Polk had claimed in 1846 when asking Congress to declare war on Mexico.
California bear flag republic
was an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California
Battle of Burns Vesta
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.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. Mexico giving up California and New Mexico.
Conscience science
as commonly used in its moral sense, is the inherent ability of every healthy human being to perceive what is right and what is wrong and, on the strength of this perception, to control, monitor, evaluate and execute their actions
Wilmot proviso
important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories, a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built.
James K Polk
11th president of the United States of America (1845-1849). As President he oversaw the largest territorial expansion in American history— over a million square miles of land—acquired through a treaty with England and war with Mexico.
John Tyler
the first Vice President to succeed to the Presidency after the death of his predecessor. Dubbed “His Accidency” by his detractors, John Tyler was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor.
Captain Robert Gray
was an American Merchant Sea Captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region.
John O’Sullivan
a popular editor and columnist , articulated the long-standing American belief in the God-given mission of the United States to lead the world in the transition to democracy. He called this America’s “manifest destiny.”
Robert J walker
Appointed secretary of the treasury by a grateful President Polk, he financed the Mexican War, secured passage of the Walker Tariff Act (a concession to Great Britain in the Oregon boundary dispute), and prepared the statute that established the Department of the Interior.
John Slidell
a Democratic congressman from Louisiana, was sent to Mexico by President James K. Polk in November 1845 to secure a boundary adjustment between the United States and Mexico. Polk authorized Slidell to offer Mexico up to $50 million for its vast northern territories.
General Zachary Taylor
He led his men across the Rio Grande and advanced into Mexico, capturing the heavily fortified stronghold of Monterrey by late September.
General Stephen W. Kearny
significant contributions in the Mexican–American War, especially the conquest of California. The Kearny code, proclaimed on September 22, 1846, in Santa Fe, established the law and government of the newly acquired territory of New Mexico and was named after him.
