Chapter 14 Flashcards
Texas MD
-east TX used to trade with Mexico
-If you want TX land:
1 learn Spanish
2 loyal with Mex govt.
3 become Catholic
4 no slaves
-GTT- “gone to texas” on doors
-1836- became a slave state, Iowa was free to balance it out
Manifest Destiny
- joint occupation for Oregon Terr.
- “manifest destiny” coined by Sullivan
- Gast- painted it with Lady Liberty
- TOM- Texas Oregon Mexico
The Alamo
200 surrounded, 500 Mexicans killed
- Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis killed
- bought time for Sam Houston to get more people to help
- Santa Anna stopped rebels who wanted to annex with America
Oregon MD
- Oregon Trail- more people in OT, more a chance to make it part of America
- if we get OT we have a strong foothold with more world trade
- 1846- Oregon Treaty- extends 49th parallel all the way to the Pacific
Mexico MD
- Polk- one term, most success with manifest destiny
- TX boarder was Rio Grande, Mexico says its Nueces River
- Slidell wanted all of Southwest for 30 mil, didn’t work
- Oregon Treaty was to prevent British conflict during Mexican conflict
Mexico Grabs
- Taylor sent 5k across Nueces to get Mexico to shoot them to start a war
- Trist and then Scott said to treatify, Polk wants all of Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
1 15 million in cost
2 Rio Grande was boarder
3 Mexican Cession and CA
4 Mexican debt to US forgiven
Wilmot Proviso
- spending bill, any land from Mexico isn’t open to slavery, didn’t pass
- “Fire-Eaters”- Calhoun (for slavery) Common Property Doctrine
- Dread Scott Decision- almost word for word of Calhoun
- extend 36-30 line to Pacific, slavery south, free north? Lincoln says NO
Popular Sovereignty
- let the people decide
- Democrats on slavery
- Kansas showed that pop.sov didn’t work
CA Gold Rush of 1848-49
- first gold found in Sutter’s Mill
- -San Francisco very populated
- Levi Strauss- real money is in supplying the miners
Election of 1844
Dark Horse Candidate- Polk -“Little Hickory”- from Tennessee
- Whigs- Henry Clay for American System, silent on TX
- Liberty- Birney took votes from Clay
- 4th- Joseph Smith
POLK WON
Election of 1848
- Lewis Cass for Polk- take Mexico Cuba Canada and Alaska
- Van Buren- antiblack, not antslave
- Taylor- no one knew where he stood
- TAYLOR WON BUT DIED
- Fillmore took over
- divided the Whigs
Mountain Men
- live in the mountains
- trapped and traded for a living
- helped with western geography
Jedediah Smith
1st American to enter CA over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, helped with geography
Zebulon Pike
Led an expedition to map out the Rocky Mountains
John Wesley Powell
Mapped out the Grand Canyon in 1869
Santa Fé Trail
900 mile trail
-allowed for American merchants to trade with each other more easily
The Donner Party
- resulted to cannibalism on the Oregon Trail
- showed how dangerous the travel west could be
Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience
Our moral duty to oppose an immoral government. Ghandi and the King used it for their civil rights
