HW - Chapter 13: Henretta

Manifest Destiny

The idea of expanding America "from sea to shining sea"

- X Natives/Mexicans, Yes Protestant Conversion

Oregon Territory

Made up of squatters, and put a voting restriction, allowing only free male descendants of a white man to vote

Great Britain vs. Expansion

1. Yes Texas independence

- X Annexation

2. Wanted California for Mexican debts to British investors

3. Interested in Spanish Cuba

- Had "designs"

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight

James K Polk's claim of rejecting the British and occupying all of Oregon Territory

Polk's Expansionist Program

1. Californios seek independence from Mexico

2. Seize SF bay and coastal towns B/C war w/ Mexico

3. Send Captain Fremont and "exploring" soldiers into Mexican Territory

Rio Grande Purchase

Polk's failed purchase of California and New Mexico for $30m and to secure the Rio Grande border for Texas

Tale of Two Rivers

The nickname for the Mexican-American War

1. Secure Rio Grande border

2. Seize Sacramento River Valley

Compromise of 1846

Polk's compromise of accepting Britain's expansionist terms and dividing Oregon County at 49th Parallel B/C X war w/ Britain

Bear Flag Revolt

The revolt against American soldiers and expansion by American settlers in the Sacramento River Valley

- C Sonoma

- Declared independence of "Bear Flag Republic"

Wilmot Proviso

The provision by Democratic congressman David Wilmot banning slavery in the territories won in the Mexican-American war

- X B/C slavery fear and Southern secession

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The treaty where the US paid $15m for 1/3 of Mexico's Territory

Oregon Donation Land Claim Act

The act granting farm-sized plots of "free land" to pre-1854 settlers

Popular/Squatter Sovereignty

The ideal that settlers within a territory could determine slave status

Lewis Cass

The expansionist senator who pushed:

1. Popular/squatter sovereignty

2. Buying Cuba

3. Annexing Yucatan Peninsula

4. Taking all of Oregon

Zachary Taylor

The former General and President who was a Lousiana slave owner

- Supported Southern slavery but X territory slavery

Compromise of 1850

The compromise of 5 new laws to save the Union

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

- Increased abolitional movements

Personal-Liberty Laws

The laws passed against the Fugitive Slave Act to guarantee a jury trial for everybody

Gadsten Purchase of 1853

The purchase of Arizona and New Mexico land from Mexico

Ostend Manifesto

The manifesto encouraging Pierce to C Cuba

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The act by Stephen Douglas which:

1. Repealed Missouri Compromise

2. Organized regions by popular sovereignty

3. Formed Nebraska and Kansas

- Ideally Kansas would support slavery

- Death of the Whig Party -> new Republican party

American/Know-Nothing Party

The nativist and anti-immigrant party after the fall of the Whigs

- Native Protestants vs. Irish/Catholic immigrants

Bleeding Kansas

The name for Kansas B/C the pro-slavery Lecompton Government passed legislature stating Kansas was a slave state, even though the majority of residents were free soil

- Caused infighting, pro-slavery forces of 700 looted Lawrence, caused John Brown retaliation

John Brown

The 56-year-old abolitionist from New York and Ohio who K 5 pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie w/ his free-state militia

- Later Guerilla war of "Bleeding Kansas" K 200+ people