People
This general seized the Mexican government in the 1830s
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
What political issue prevented Texas from being allowed to immediately apply for statehood?
the balance of power between free & slave states
Beginning in 1848 a huge number of people surged into a territory in search of gold
California Gold Rush
Who won the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
The ideology that America was destined-by God and history- to expand its boundaries west.
Manifest Destiny
This man led the army that surprised & defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto
Sam Houston
The emergence of this anti-slavery political party in 1848 revealed the inability to avoid the issue of slavery
Free-Soil Party
This declared that slaves are private property and free blacks were not citizens
Dred Scott Decision
Who won the Election of 1848?
Zachary Taylor
Treaty where Mexico ceded CA & NM to the US, settled the border at the Rio Grande and US pays $15 million
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
He created the first legal American settlement in Texas.
Stephen F. Austin
Gave residents of a territory seeking statehood the power to decide if it would be a free state or a slave state.
popular sovereignty
This town contained an arsenal targeted by John Brown, who hoped to raid it and start a revolt
Harpers Ferry
Who won the Election of 1844?
James K. Polk
What would the Wilmot Proviso have done if it had been successful?
Prohibited slavery in territories acquired from Mexico
He won the election of 1844 on a platform of expansion, especially advocating the annexation of TX, CA, & OR
James K. Polk
Term for a period of statewide armed warfare by political groups that symbolized sectional controversy
Bleeding Kansas
A mission in San Antonio where an American garrison was destroyed
The Alamo
Who won the Election of 1852?
Franklin Pierce
This saw admission of CA as a free state, abolition of the slave trade in DC and an effective fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850
This MA senator was a leading voice against slavery; he was savagely attacked in Congress by a SC representative
Charles Sumner
This political movement supported free trade and territorial expansion during the mid-1840s and early 1850s
Young America
What first brought recognition to Lincoln?
Lincoln-Douglas debates
This vice-president became president when Zachary Taylor died unexpectedly
Millard Fillmore
This 1853 land deal bought part of AZ & NM for $10 million from Mexico
Gadsden Purchase