Chapter/ Paccket 16

Question 1

Tariff of 1842

Answer 1

imposed high duties on goods produced within the United States, including cotton and woolen goods.

Question 2

Charles’s dickens

Answer 2

wrote letters during the war with Britain, the war with only words.

Question 3

Frances Trollope

Answer 3

successful Victorian novelist and one of the most prolific writers of his time. His most famous works are his six Barsetshire novels, published between 1855 and 1867, and his six Palliser novels, published between 1864 and 1880.

Question 4

Caroline the ship

Answer 4

The ship that was sunk by British force.

Question 5

Aroostock war

Answer 5

1838–39), bloodless conflict over the disputed boundary between the U.S. state of Maine and the British Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Question 6

Lord Ashburn

Answer 6

was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring family. Sent to the United States to establish settlement with Webster upon Maines boundary lines.

Question 7

Manifest Destiny

Answer 7

the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

Question 8

Fifty four forty or line

Answer 8

The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes.

Question 9

Liberty party

Answer 9

was a minor political party in the United States in the 1840s. The party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause and it broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society to advocate the view that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document.

Question 10

Walker Tariff

Answer 10

moved rates downward towards revenue-only levels and dropped the policy of an ad valorem rate (a percent of the value of the goods) in favor of a set rate regardless of the value.

Question 11

Spot resolution

Answer 11

The resolutions requested President James K. Polk to provide Congress with the exact location (the “spot”) upon which blood was spilled on American soil, as Polk had claimed in 1846 when asking Congress to declare war on Mexico.

Question 12

California bear flag republic

Answer 12

was an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California

Question 13

Battle of Burns Vesta

Answer 13

Key American victory against Mexican forces in the Mexican-American War. Elevated General Zachary Taylor to national prominence and helped secure his success in the 1848 presidential election.

Question 14

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 14

signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. Mexico giving up California and New Mexico.

Question 15

Conscience science

Answer 15

as commonly used in its moral sense, is the inherent ability of every healthy human being to perceive what is right and what is wrong and, on the strength of this perception, to control, monitor, evaluate and execute their actions

Question 16

Wilmot proviso

Answer 16

important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories, a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built.

Question 17

James K Polk

Answer 17

11th president of the United States of America (1845-1849). As President he oversaw the largest territorial expansion in American history— over a million square miles of land—acquired through a treaty with England and war with Mexico.

Question 18

John Tyler

Answer 18

the first Vice President to succeed to the Presidency after the death of his predecessor. Dubbed “His Accidency” by his detractors, John Tyler was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor.

Question 19

Captain Robert Gray

Answer 19

was an American Merchant Sea Captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region.

Question 20

John O’Sullivan

Answer 20

a popular editor and columnist , articulated the long-standing American belief in the God-given mission of the United States to lead the world in the transition to democracy. He called this America’s “manifest destiny.”

Question 21

Robert J walker

Answer 21

Appointed secretary of the treasury by a grateful President Polk, he financed the Mexican War, secured passage of the Walker Tariff Act (a concession to Great Britain in the Oregon boundary dispute), and prepared the statute that established the Department of the Interior.

Question 22

John Slidell

Answer 22

a Democratic congressman from Louisiana, was sent to Mexico by President James K. Polk in November 1845 to secure a boundary adjustment between the United States and Mexico. Polk authorized Slidell to offer Mexico up to $50 million for its vast northern territories.

Question 23

General Zachary Taylor

Answer 23

He led his men across the Rio Grande and advanced into Mexico, capturing the heavily fortified stronghold of Monterrey by late September.

Question 24

General Stephen W. Kearny

Answer 24

significant contributions in the Mexican–American War, especially the conquest of California. The Kearny code, proclaimed on September 22, 1846, in Santa Fe, established the law and government of the newly acquired territory of New Mexico and was named after him.

Question 25

Winfield Scott

Answer 25

American military commander and political candidate. He served as a general in the United States Army from 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early stages of the American Civil War and conflicts with Native Americans.

Question 26

Captain John C. Frémont

Answer 26

American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the United States in 1856 and founder of the California Republican Party when he was nominated.

Question 27

James Russel Lowell

Answer 27

American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and diplomat whose major significance probably lies in the interest in literature he helped develop in the United States.

Question 28

David Wilmot

Answer 28

A U.S. Congressman (1845-1851) and later Senator (1861-1863) from Pennsylvania, David Wilmot sponsored an amendment to an appropriations bill in the House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, which proposed the banning of slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War.

Question 29

Junipero Serra

Answer 29

Spanish Franciscan priest, explorer and colonist of California, and founder of the missions of California, Saint Junípero Serra is known as the “Apostle of California” and “The Father of the California Missions”.