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terms from time period five of apush for the LEQ
American Progress
A painting that symbolizes Manifest Destiny, depicting the westward expansion of settlers and the displacement of Native Americans.
antebellum
before the war
manifest destiny
it is Gods destiny for America to expand to the west
Texas annexation
Texas into the United States, which contributed to tensions leading to the Mexican-American War. Leads to issues of slavery and the debate over free versus slave states.
Oregan into the Union
refers to the admission of the Oregon Territory as a state in the United States, which was significant in the context of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. And the south wants Oregan to be added because they could be the free state what would allow slavery to be in Texas
Slidell mission
A diplomatic mission sent by the United States to Mexico to negotiate the purchase of California
Texas says no but because James K pulk beliefs in manifest destiny and thinks he needs to get California
James K Pulk
mentored by Andrew Jackson
brings the country into the war with mexico
and strongly advocated for Manifest Destiny, believing it was America's fate to expand its territory.
reasons for the war
Mexico invaded the us and attacked American solders
the US has to defend her honor
Clays reasons against the war
unjustified and thinks that the US can not handle the land they already have to gaining more land would make the US harder to Govern.
Abraham Lincoln (Mexican war)
Thinks the same as clay and calls Pulk out on saying that Mexican Solders attacks on the US soil. He says that it was on disputed territory instead
Lincon says if the war was on US land he will support it but he knows it was on dispute
Spot resolutions
Lincon asks Pulk to show were Mexico attacked on US soil
Wilmont Proviso
Law proposed that all land from Mexico should be free
this was proposed by a Pennsylvanian democrat, so it shows that the democrat perspectives are changing
tready of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
the US buys the land of Califora from Mexico to be nice and so Mexico cannot claim that the US took the land
Mexican Cession
the land they got from Mexico
Gadsden Purchase
bought land to make a railroad
finishes all of the land in the continental US
Filibusters
south attempts to try to buy islands in Caribbean to get the south more slave territory
Ostend Manifesto
south tries to buy Cuba so have slaves make sugar and have 2 cash crops
free soil party
oppose the extension of slavery in western territories
they want the west to be a place for economic gain for white people to buy land
cali gold rush
right after it is bought from Mexico
increases tensions of slavery because it becomes a state
fire eaters
people in the south that threaten to leave the union
southern advantages in the war
is there is a balance in the senate than abolishing of slavery can not be passed
rising cotton prices make them feel confidant
president Taylor is pro slavery
compomise of 1850
by henry clay
uses popular sovereignty to decide if Utah and mexico will be slave or free
fugitive slave law
enforce people to capture runaway slaves
people in north start to thing that slavery is morally wrong
Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore
allows the compromise
Underground rail road
south is angry because federal government is not helping catch her
uncle toms cabin
book that helps people start seeing the moral things wrong with slavery
Kansas Nebraska act
popular serenity states that used this to decide
bleeding kansas
south kills northerners going to Kansas trying to get it to be a free state
John brown
kills slave owners
Caning of Charles Sumner
he talks against the south and about bleeding Kansas
Preston brooks kills him
Dred Scott vs sanford
claims he is free federal gov says they do not have rights at citizens
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