11.1 Lewis and Clark
The US gained Florida from Spain.
What is the main result of the Adams-Onís Treaty?
The three-fifths clause.
What said that slaves could be counted as 3/5 of a person?
1836
In which year did Texas declare its independence from Mexico?
The idea that Americans can take the land on the West.
What was "Manifest Destiny"?
What was the amendment to a revenue bill that would have barred slavery from all the territory acquired from Mexico?
$15 million
What was the price of the Louisiana Purchase?
James Tallmadge
Who made a proposal to prohibit the importation of
slaves to Missouri following its admission to
The United States?
This is where Texans defeated the army of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
What is the battle of San Jacinto?
1845
In what year was Texas annexed to the US?
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One of them called for the end of slavery everywhere, the others opposed its expansion westward to protect the whites.
What is the difference between the abolitionists and the antislavery advocates?
Find the Northwest Passage, exert US control, improve the ability for US merchants to get access to Chinese ports.
For what purposes did Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory? What did he want them to accomplish?
Maine
Which state was admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state to balance votes in the Senate?
They brought settlers to the region of Texas in exchange for grants of land.
Who were the empresarios?
Polk
What was the name of the US President during this expansion and the Mexican-American War?
Barnburners
What term was used to describe the followers of M. Van Buren who "smoked out" the bad Democrats?
James Long
Who was a filibuster who tried to take Texas?
It allowed both Maine and Missouri to be States.
What was the Compromise of 1820?
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"Hey Santa Anna, we're killing your soldiers below!
That men, wherever they go will remember the Alamo"
What is the chorus of Johnny Cash's "Remember the Alamo"?
Lazy, coward, vice-ridden Catholics.
How did the Americans view the Mexicans?
Lewis Cass for the Democrats, General Zachary Taylor for the Whigs and Martin Van Buren for the Free-Soil party
Who ran for the elections of 1848?
The Republic of Texas.
What was the name of the republic established by the Declaration of Independence in 1819 after the "Long Expedition"?
Latitude 36º30'.
Which line separated the states where there could be slaves and where there couldn't?
"GTT"
What was the message people would leave on their doors when signalling they had "Gone to Texas"?
"Forty-niners"
What was the nickname given to the people that went to California during the Gold Rush?
One of the points in the Compromise of 1850.
What said that:
1. California, which was ready to enter the Union, was admitted as a free state in accordance with its state constitution.
2. Popular sovereignty was to determine the status of slavery in New Mexico and Utah, even though Utah and part of New Mexico were north of the Missouri Compromise line.
3. The slave trade was banned in the nation’s capital. Slavery, however, was allowed to remain.
4. Under a new fugitive slave law, those who helped runaway slaves or refused to assist in their return would be fined and possibly imprisoned.
5. The border between Texas and New Mexico was established