Chapter 11: Expanding the Nation/Manifest Destiny Flashcards
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Californio
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- person of Spanish descent–and after 1821, citizen of Mexico–living in California
- many did not originally want to become American
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Manifest Destiny
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- doctrine that the expansion of white Americans across continent was inevitable and ordained by God and was a means to spread Protestant Christianity and Jacksonian Democracy to more people
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Tejano
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- people of Spanish or Mexican descent born in Texas
- became smaller as Americans came pouring in after Mexican Revolution
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Empresario
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- agent who received a land grant from the Spanish or Mexican government in return for organizing settlements
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Stephen F. Austin
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- father, Moses Austin- obtained permission to start colony in Texas with Spain
- after Mexico’s independence, went with his father to announce loyalty to the Mexican government
- empresario/colonizing agent for Texan land
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Texians
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- name for Americans in Texas
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Alamo
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- A Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Texas, that was the site in 1836 of a siege and massacre of Texans by Mexican troops, where Santa Anna captured and then moved on to capture Goliad
- “Remember the Alamo!” rallying cry for independence of Texas and later in war between Texas and Mexico
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“Dark Horse”
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- refers to James K. Polk’s sudden and unexpected arrival “out of the blue” to the presidency
- Democrats didn’t want Tyler or Van Buren with Jackson in charge
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Panic of 1837
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- due to Jackson’s economic policies before Van Buren’s presidency
- credit dries up and cotton broker, banks, and mercantile houses fail
- people lose their jobs
- paid off national debt, leaving huge portion of currency to Britain and little to us
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Species Circular
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- federal land grants could only be purchased through species(gold/silver), no bank notes
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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- treaty signed by the United States and Britain in 1842 that settled a boundary dispute between U.S. and Canada and provided for closer cooperation in suppressing African slave trade
- resolved border with Canada as far west as Minnesota
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Treaty of Guadelupe-Hildalgo
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- $15 million for Mexico’s New Mexico, Texas and California after war
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Sam Houston
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- his army was the only force left after Alamo and Goliad
- Houston began slow retreat to wear thin Mexico’s line of supplies just to suddenly turn on them
- defeated Santa Anna at Battle of San Jacinto
- Treaty of Velasco and Texan independence!
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James K. Polk
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- Democrat, 11th President
= Manifest Destiny - Oregon, Texas, California, New Mexico
- Mexican War
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Zachary Taylor
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- Whigs
- after James K. Polk, 12th President
- war hero in Mexican War
