Mexican American War
Leader of Mexico
Antonio López de Santa Anna,
Known as "The Father of Texas." He led a project to settle Americans in Texas in the 1820s. He originally brought 300 hard-working families.
Stephen F. Austin
Coined the term, Manifest Destiny?
John L. O'Sullivan
11th President of the United States; committed to westward expansion; led the country during the Mexican War; U.S. annexed Texas and took over Oregon during his administration
James K. Polk
Allowed people of the territory to decide the status of slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
Year Mexico declared independence from Spain
1821
1836 attack on a mission in San Antonio by Mexican forces during the Texas Revolution
Battle of the Alamo
The slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for us annexation of the Oregon territory
"Fifty-four forty or fight!"
Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens; that living in a free state or territory, even for many years, did not free slaves; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Reversed the MO Compromise, instituted Pop Sov. In Kansas and Nebraska; led to conflict - "Bleeding Kansas"
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A rebellion that declared California was an independent republic in 1846. To represent this new nation, the rebels created a flag with a single star and a grizzly bear
Bear Flag Revolt
General of the Texas Army; defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto which ended the war and gave Texans their independence; eventually he became the first official President of the Republic of Texas
Sam Houston
Movement of Northerners opposed the expansion of slavery in U.S. territory and admission of slave states into the Union
Free Soil Movement
A former political party active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics (called nativists)
American, or Know-Nothing, Party
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
John Brown
A treaty that the US forced Mexico to sign in 1848, giving Mexico's northern lands to the US (NM,CO,AZ,UT,CA,NV)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Volunteered to fight at the Alamo; skilled sharpshooter and hunter; U.S. Congressman; Leader in Tennessee militia; brought 50 volunteers with him to the Alamo; fought bravely and died at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
A nickname was given to people who came to California in search of gold?
Forty-Niners
CA admitted as a free state, increased fugitive slave laws, slave trade banned in Washington DC, popular sovereignty in most other states from the Mexican- American War.
Compromise of 1850
Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
$10 million purchase of land from Mexico - omitted from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This strip - south of the Gila River, includes the route of the Southern Pacific railroad
Gadsen Purchase
What happened on December 29, 1845
Texas became our 28th State
Formed in 1847 - 1848, dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory.
Free Soil Party
Anti-slavery Whigs opposed both the Texas annexation and the Mexican War on moral grounds.
Conscience Whigs
12th President of the United States; general in Mexican War who led the battle over the disputed territory around the Rio Grande River
Zachary Taylor