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James K. Polk
Democrat elected president in 1844
Manifest Destiny
Americans believed themselves to have a God-given right to possess a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Oregon Trail
A six-month, 2,000-mile journey to Oregon
Oregon Treaty
1846
Bear Flag Republic
Officially proclaimed in the California territory on July 4, 1846
Treaty of Guad-Hidalgo
Signed on February 2, 1848 and officially ended the Mexican-American War
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot introduced an amendment to a bill authorizing funding for the Mexican-American War that stated slavery could not exist in any territory acquired from Mexico
Was passed by the House of Rep. four times and rejected by the Senate each time
Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansions and the question of slavery
Missouri Compromise
President Polk decided to continue the line drawn out to the Pacific Ocean
Free-Soil Party
Members of the Liberty party and defectors from the Whig and Democratic parties
Compromise of 1850
Both the North and South got some of what they wanted from the compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
Law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves
Stephen Douglas
Sponsored the bill that proposed the creation of the Kansas and Nebraska territories
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Major Slave Legislation #3 of 3
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Gadsden Purchase
American diplomats negotiated with Mexico
Know-Nothing party
Former Whigs that developed in response to the rising Immigration from Ireland and Germany
Republican Party
Created from the fury over the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Many proslavery settlers flooded into Kansas from Missouri, thus ensuring the election of a proslavery legislature in 1855 by casting illegal ballots
Dred Scott
A former slave who was suing for his freedom on the basis that his owner had taken him to stay first in a free state, Illinois, and then into free territory, Wisconsin
Abraham Lincoln
Freeport Doctrine
Douglas’ response to how the residents of a territory could exclude slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision
Election of 1860
Election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 virtually ensured that some Southern states would leave the Union
Confederate States of America
Seven states that left the union
F- Florida
A- Alabama
S- South Carolina (first to leave)
T- Texas
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M- Mississippi
L- Louisiana
G- Georgia
Compromise of 1877
Democrats allowed Hayes to be president in return for the removal of all federal troops from the south
Election of 1844
Democratic candidate James K. Polk vs Whig candidate Henry Clay
Polk wins
Polk with 170 electoral votes to Clay’s 105