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John O'Sullivan
coined the term "manifest destiny"
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expansionism
political belief of gaining more territory
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end goal of manifest destiny
control all of North America
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ethnocentrism
racist idea that your race is superior
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overlanders
people that migrated West
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Narcissa Whitman
first white women to cross rockies without wagon - showed everyone that it was possible
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fur trappers
mountain men
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Hudson Bay Co
british company associated with fur trade
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rocky mountain fur co
US company associated with fur trade
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rendezvous system
trade fairs where fur pelts were sold for guns, supplies, and booze (various ethnic groups gathered)
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election of 1844
Clay v Polk
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Henry Clay
Whig, moderate
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Polk
democrat
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oregon fever
passion for cheap land in the west, wagon train migration to oregon
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fifty-four forty or fight
1844 slogan: wanted boundary of oregon to be higher up and closer to alaska
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49th parallel
oregon border
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why did polk give up on oregon?
california was his ultimate goal
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Santa Fe Trail
major trade route
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stephen f. austin
brought the first Americans to texas; empresario
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empresario
land agents that sold land in texas for hella cheap
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US govt response to Santa Anna's laws
neutrality
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The Alamo
battle became symbol of
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treaty of velasco
Texan independence
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lone star republic
texas before it was accepted into the union
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john slidell
negotiates with mexico
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us want texas boundary
rio grande
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mexico want texas boundary
nueces
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general zachary taylor
sent to rio grande to pick a fight
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spot resolution
Lincoln wants to know the exact spot where people were attacked
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wilmot proviso
make mexican cession free
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treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo
ends mexican american war
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Sutter
gold discovered at his mill
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obstacle to mormon statehood
polygamy
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aroostock war
border dispute over mainew
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webster-ashburton treaty
US gets iron ore fields in minnesota, enlarges maine
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gadsten purchase
small strip of land purchased from mexico with the intention of building a railroad
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clayton-bulwer treaty
canal through central america
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election of 1848
Cass v Taylor
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1848 third party
free soil
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free soil party
opposed to the extension of slavery
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free soil consisted of
conscience whigs
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Calhoun
fire eaterw
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webster
moderate
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"i come to you not as a northerner but as an american"
webster's speech
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william seward
abolitionist
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uncle tom's cabin themes
love of christianity can overcome the horrors of slavery
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Aunt phillis' cabin
slaves treated better than depicted in UTC
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hinton helper
writes about how slavery is terrible for the South's economy
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ostend manifesto
franklin pierce tries to buy cuba
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filibusters
armed expeditions sent to carribbean countries to establish future slave states
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kansas-nebraska act
divide kansas and nebraska into 2
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stephen douglas
wants popular sovereignty and transcontinental railroad
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border ruffians
came from missouri to vote illegally
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emigrant aid company
abolitionist organization that funded the settlement of K-N territory in order to sway vote against slavery
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lecompton constitution
pro-slavery
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lawrence
abolitionist town burned
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pottawatomie creek massacre
john brown's response to the burning of lawrence
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charles sumner
"crimes against kansas" - compares slavery to a whore
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preston brooks
canes sumner
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republican party
sectional combination of free-soilers, northern whigs, barnburners, liberty partya
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american party
nativists, opposed irish and chinese immigration
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dred scott ruling
slaves not citizens, no right to sue
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panic of 1857
inflation bc of california gold, overspeculation
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tariff of 1857
lowered duties by 20%
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freeport doctrine
douglas screws himself over and splits the democrats by saying he supports popular sovereignty over dred scott ruling
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harper's ferry
john brown starts a slave rebellion by giving slaves weapons
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john brown
hanged and seen as martyr in the north
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first state to secede
South carolina
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how many seceded
seven deep south states
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fort sumter
union soldiers refuse to surrender the fort
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topeka
anti-slavery constitution in kansas
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