manifest destiny Flashcards
John O’Sullivan
-coined term
-manifest destiny-america’s given destiny to expand
Caroline affair
-small canadian revolt 1837
american ship:caroline
-carrying supplies to canadian insurgents
-violation of neutrality
creole
-1841
-tense episode between america and britain
-britain offered refuge in bahamas
-creole ship taken over by slaves
aroostook war
-1840s
-maine dispute
-britain turned into war
-fought between americans and canadians
webster ashburton treaty
-1842
-lord ashburton
-negotiate maine boundary dispute
-compromise: british get less land but get road
clayton bulwer treaty
-1850
-conflicted monroe doctrine
-decided neither america nor britain could make military settlements or exclusive control of waterway
-helped americans at first but then impedes progress
the oregon question
-conflict between america and britain
-both america and britain occupying land in peace until america wanted all of it
-treaty of 1818-live peacefully
-issue resolved peacefully by britain giving land
54 40 or fight
-conflict over oregon with britain
-wanted all land over california or else they will fight
-polk slogan
-america doesnt do 54 40 or fight
annexation of texas
-mandate by polk
-used joint resolution to annex
desire for california
-polk wants to buy california
border dispute-nueces river/rio grande
-mexico owned texas
-southwestern boundary of territory had been nueces river
-texans claimed rio grande as southern border, given more land
“spot resolutions”
-lincoln damns justification for war with mexico
-didn’t believe polks justification (that blood was shed on american soil)
-asks for exact spot blood was shed
mexico war-cause/significance
-mexico viewed texas as mexico, dispute over rio frande/nueces river
-sent john slidell in attempt to buy ca
-sent armed troops into mexico, forcing attack
-polk claims american blood was shed
-requests congress to declare war
-1846-1848
-northern whigs opposed to war
-lincoln+spot resolution
-william proviso+question over slavery in new territory
treaty of guadalupe-hildalgo
-ends mexican war
-signed by nicholas trist
-mexico gives us texas, oregon, california
-us pays $15 million for it
-good compromise for pro slavery & pro-expansion so passes through senate
wilmont proviso (david wilmont)
-1846
-amendment banning slavery in new territory from mexico
-meant to limit power of south
-didn’t pass senate, adopted to state legislatures in all but one free state