Manifest Destiny
Americans in Mexican Texas (empresarios)
Issue of slavery in Mexican Texas
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
Battle of the Alamo
San Jacinto
Californios
Tejanos
Independent Republic of Texas
Tyler’s failed Texas annexation
Oregon Fever
Liberty Party
John Tyler
Webster-Ashburton treaty
Election of 1844
“54 40 or fight”
Oregon Treaty (1846)
Annexation of Texas
Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Election of 1848
Barnburners
Free Soil Party
popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Slave Conspiracy
John Sutter
California Gold Rush
Effect of Gold Rush on Chinese immigrants
Commodore Matthew Perry
1852 election
Fireaters
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stephen Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Rise of the Know-Nothing/American Party
Rise of the Republican Party
Election of 1856
Caning of Sumner
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
Gadsden Purchase
Collapse of the Second party system
Ostend Manifesto
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott decision
Chief Justice Roger Taney
Lecompton Constitution and James Buchanan
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
Lincoln’s view on slavery in mid 1850’s
Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln debates in 1858