Expanding like yeast starters
The notion that Americans have a God-given right to have a nation that expands from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific Ocean was labeled this by John o'Sullivan...
Manifest Destiny
Polk sent this general to the Rio Grande border where 11 Americans died and then had congress declare war in 1846 as Mexico "ha[d] passed the boundary of the United States, invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil; will fix your suits
Zachary Taylor
This Proviso said all lands from Mexican American War are off limits for slavery
What is the Wilmot Proviso
Fugitive Slave Law caused more tension in the US as it required this:
Requires all states to arrest escaped enslaved people
The North Labor System was this vs the South Labor System which was this
free wage labor, manufacturer jobs in factories vs enslaved labor working on agricultural plantations
These were some reasons for Westward expansion:
1) California Gold Rush. 2) People were looking for new economic and homesteading opportunities. 3) Cheap land. 4) People sought religious refuge
In this battle Americans capture Mexican general & force a treaty for Texan independence to be signed by the general. (Mexico still doesn't recognize independence)
Battle of San Jacinto
This said people in each territory should decide the question of slavery for themselves
Popular Sovereignty
This Political Party wanted to limit immigrants’ cultural and political influence; idk
Know Nothing Party
Many northerners rejected the expansion of slavery on these grounds
Economic ground bc free wage laborers struggle to compete for jobs against slave labor
This president wanted to admit these two territories into to the Union
James Polk, Texas and Oregon
This commander allowed the U.S. to conquer Mexico City which forced Mexico into negotiations
Winfield Scott
The Wilmot Proviso highlighted tensions in this area
What is the question of slavery
These two states entered as free states, disrupted the perfect balance in the senate and tipped it towards the free states, due to this resulting in the South threatening secession
CA and NM & Compromise of 1850
DOUBLE JEOPARTY
1) These two authors are examples of abolitionist writers. 2)Other abolitionists include:
William Lloyd Garrison(Liberator newspaper), Harriet Beecher Stowe’s (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
Frederick Douglass- escaped slavery himself, powerful speeches
Underground Railroad: a series of trains and safehouses by which people enslaved in the South could find safe passage to the North
Two requirements made by the Mexican government towards Americans in Texas led to Americans ignoring them and then the Mexican gov closing immigration and then Americans ignoring that.
1) Must convert to Roman Catholicism 2) Outlawed slavery
Mexico believed the Mexican border was on this river where as the US believed that the border was oil this river leading to the conflict known as the Mexican American war.
M-Nueces River & U.S.-Rio Grande
The Free Soil Movement was composed of theses two groups and wanted any new territories anti slavery.
Northern Democrats and Whigs
This man proposed the Compromise of 1850 which caused these four things:
Henry Clay; 1) Mexican cession would be further divided into Utah & New Mexico, with popular sovereignty 2) CA admitted as a free state 3) Slave trade is banned in Washington DC 4)Stricter Fugative Slave Law
This man believed that the only way to be free from slavery was by means of a slave uprising against the South and devised a plan to raid the federal arsenal at this place to spark a rebellion.
John Brown Harpers Ferry VA
Polk's want for these territories(as the 1st letter of their names) led him to making an agreement with the British; no prescription needed acronym
This treaty led to the Rio Grande being the Southern Border of Texas and Mexico's cession of these these territories.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); California and New Mexico are ceded to the U.S. for $15,000,000
The South beloved that slavery was this and the question of where slavery could and could not exist had already been decided by this.
Constitutional right & Missouri Compromise (1820)
The trend of the massive wave of Irish and German immigrants settling in cultural enclaves led to the development of these sentiments in the US towards Germans.
Anti-Catholic Nativist Movement (Irish are protestant)
Southerners saw this revolt as a sign of what abolition was really about which was this
John Brown Harpers Ferry VA; was actually to have a race war