Jacksonian Democracy
The practice of incoming presidents replacing current government employees with their supporters.
Spoils system
Covered Wagon.
Prairie Schooner
A mission famous for Texans holding off General Santa Anna's much larger army for 13 days.
The alamo
He pushed the Indian Removal Act through congress.
Andrew Jackson
A tax on imported goods
Tariff
The largest share
Plurality
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Manifest destiny
A Texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent.
Tejano
He was the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849) and is widely regarded as one of the most successful "consequential" presidents for fulfilling all his major campaign promises in a single term.
James K. Polk
A formal agreement between two or more states in reference to peace, alliance, commerce, or other international relations.
Treaty
U.S. policy encouraging Native Americans to adopt European-American customs, hoping they'd give up land.
Assimilation
A Texan of Latin American, often Mexican, descent.
Tejano
To prove or show to be right.
Justify
He was the President of Mexico and general who led the attack on the Alamo.
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Contimplating, thinking deeply.
Ruminating
This law, as described by Congress, provided "for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi".
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
A private citizen who tries to enforce the law or punish suspected lawbreakers.
Vigilante
Signed in 1819 by the U.S. (John Quincy Adams) and Spain (Luis de Onís), ceded Florida to the U.S., settled the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase up to the Pacific (securing U.S. claims to Oregon), and defined the U.S.-Spanish territory border.
The Adams-Onís Treaty
He was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Smith
A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
Dark Horse
Not able to be undone.
Indefeasible
This slogan used in the 1844 election referred to the line of latitude they believed should be the nation's northern border in Oregon.
Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
Which two rivers were a matter of dispute for the border of Texas and Mexico.
Rio Grande (United States) and the Nueces (Mexico)
He was a hero of the war of 1812, but would die of pneumona 32 days after he was elected president.
William Henry Harrison
The deliberate destruction of a group of people’s way of life.
Cultural genocide