Politics
President that promised to get Oregon, California, and Texas in one term
James Polk
Oneida Commune, Brook Farm, and Shakers are all examples of...
Utopian Societies
Heavly traveled trail from Independence, MO to Oregon Country
Oregon Trail
Wanted to end slavery
Abolitionists
Ex-Tennessee congressman that led doomed defense of the Alamo
Davy Crockett
People that supported slavery and its expansion
Fire Eaters
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments calling for equality among the sexes
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
First president of Texas
Sam Houston
Southern woman that published accounts of slavery's brutality
Angela Grimke
Mexican dictator that went to war with USA
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Attempt by South Carolina to refuse to enforce a tariff
Nullification Crisis
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Name for covered wagons along the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails
Prairie Schooners
Literate slave that led a bloody revolt in Virginia
Nat Turner
Advocated for better facilities to aid the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
Caused by abolition of national bank and lack of oversight over risky financial decisions
Panic of 1837
First Female astronomer
Maria Mitchell
Ended the Mexican-American War giving the USA California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Pushed for economic expansion and made many compromises
Henry Clay
Founded first college to educate women
Emma Willard
Branch of Christianity founded in the USA by Joseph Smith that formed their own community in Utah
Mormons
First woman to graduate from medical school in the USA
Elizabeth Blackwell
Immigrants that took a supposed shortcut only to get stranded in the Sierra Nevadas during a blizzard and had to resort to cannibalism
Donner Party
Founded first female worker's union
Sarah G Bagley
Led the Mormons to Utah
Brigham Young