apush

John O'Sullivan

coined the term "manifest destiny"

expansionism

political belief of gaining more territory

end goal of manifest destiny

control all of North America

ethnocentrism

racist idea that your race is superior

overlanders

people that migrated West

Narcissa Whitman

first white women to cross rockies without wagon - showed everyone that it was possible

fur trappers

mountain men

Hudson Bay Co

british company associated with fur trade

rocky mountain fur co

US company associated with fur trade

rendezvous system

trade fairs where fur pelts were sold for guns, supplies, and booze (various ethnic groups gathered)

election of 1844

Clay v Polk

Henry Clay

Whig, moderate

Polk

democrat

oregon fever

passion for cheap land in the west, wagon train migration to oregon

fifty-four forty or fight

1844 slogan: wanted boundary of oregon to be higher up and closer to alaska

49th parallel

oregon border

why did polk give up on oregon?

california was his ultimate goal

Santa Fe Trail

major trade route

stephen f. austin

brought the first Americans to texas; empresario

empresario

land agents that sold land in texas for hella cheap

US govt response to Santa Anna's laws

neutrality

The Alamo

battle became symbol of

treaty of velasco

Texan independence

lone star republic

texas before it was accepted into the union

john slidell

negotiates with mexico

us want texas boundary

rio grande

mexico want texas boundary

nueces

general zachary taylor

sent to rio grande to pick a fight

spot resolution

Lincoln wants to know the exact spot where people were attacked

wilmot proviso

make mexican cession free

treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo

ends mexican american war

Sutter

gold discovered at his mill

obstacle to mormon statehood

polygamy

aroostock war

border dispute over mainew

webster-ashburton treaty

US gets iron ore fields in minnesota, enlarges maine

gadsten purchase

small strip of land purchased from mexico with the intention of building a railroad

clayton-bulwer treaty

canal through central america

election of 1848

Cass v Taylor

1848 third party

free soil

free soil party

opposed to the extension of slavery

free soil consisted of

conscience whigs

Calhoun

fire eaterw

webster

moderate

"i come to you not as a northerner but as an american"

webster's speech

william seward

abolitionist

uncle tom's cabin themes

love of christianity can overcome the horrors of slavery

Aunt phillis' cabin

slaves treated better than depicted in UTC

hinton helper

writes about how slavery is terrible for the South's economy

ostend manifesto

franklin pierce tries to buy cuba

filibusters

armed expeditions sent to carribbean countries to establish future slave states

kansas-nebraska act

divide kansas and nebraska into 2

stephen douglas

wants popular sovereignty and transcontinental railroad

border ruffians

came from missouri to vote illegally

emigrant aid company

abolitionist organization that funded the settlement of K-N territory in order to sway vote against slavery

lecompton constitution

pro-slavery

lawrence

abolitionist town burned

pottawatomie creek massacre

john brown's response to the burning of lawrence

charles sumner

"crimes against kansas" - compares slavery to a whore

preston brooks

canes sumner

republican party

sectional combination of free-soilers, northern whigs, barnburners, liberty partya

american party

nativists, opposed irish and chinese immigration

dred scott ruling

slaves not citizens, no right to sue

panic of 1857

inflation bc of california gold, overspeculation

tariff of 1857

lowered duties by 20%

freeport doctrine

douglas screws himself over and splits the democrats by saying he supports popular sovereignty over dred scott ruling

harper's ferry

john brown starts a slave rebellion by giving slaves weapons

john brown

hanged and seen as martyr in the north

first state to secede

South carolina

how many seceded

seven deep south states

fort sumter

union soldiers refuse to surrender the fort

topeka

anti-slavery constitution in kansas