Day 1 Flashcards
What is the term coined by John L. O’Sullivan that expresses the popular belief that the United States had a divine mission to extend across North America?
Manifest Destiny
Name two presidents who put off statehood for the Republic of Texas due to the opposition of Northerners not wanting slavery to spread.
Presidents Jackson and Van Buren
What is the name of the conflict between rival groups of lumbermen on the Maine-Canadian border?
Aroostook Wars–“battle of the maps”
What treaty split the disputed territory between Maine and British Canada and also settled the boundary of the Minnesota territory, leaving what proved to be the iron-rich Mesabi range on the United States side of the border?
Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842
Protestant missionaries and farmers in Oregon settled in which valley?
The Willamette Valley
Who won the election of 1844?
James K. Polk
What was the Democratic Party’s campaign slogan during the 1844 presidential election?
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo(1848)
What treaty provided that neither nation would attempt to take exclusive control of any future canal route in Central America?
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850
What proposed bill (that would ban slavery in any territory acquired from the Mexican-American War) failed in the Senate?
Wilmot Proviso
What party nominated General Zachary Taylor for president
The Whigs
What was discovered in the Sierra Nevada foothills in January, 1848?
Gold
What state became free with the passage of the Compromise of 1850?
California
What two territories left the question of slavery up to popular sovereignty in the Compromise of 1850?
Utah and New Mexico
In order to finish the building of the transcontinental rail line from New Orleans to Los Angeles, what did Franklin Pierce negotiate in 1853?
The Gadsden Purchase
