Period #4 Vocabulary (Set #4) Flashcards
What title is set four of period four?
What range of years is set four of period four?
Territorial & Economic Expansion
1830-1860
the 19th-century belief that it was the divine right and destiny of the United States to expand its territory across the North American continent
Manifest Destiny
Fortress in Texas where four hundred American volunteers were slain by Santa Anna in 1836
Alamo
An aggressive slogan adopted in the Oregon boundary dispute, a dispute over where the border between Canada and Oregon should be drawn. This was also Polk’s slogan- the Democrats’ wanted the U.S. border drawn at the 54’40” latitude. Polk settled for the 49 latitude in 1846. Free Soil Party.
“Fifty-four Forty or Fight”
the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835-1839) and governor of Tennessee (1839-1841). A protégé of Andrew Jackson, he was a member of the Democratic Party and an advocate of Jacksonian democracy
James K. Polk
a peace treaty between the United States and Mexico that officially ended the Mexican-American War. Under the terms of the treaty, Mexico ceded a large portion of its territory to the United States
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Bill proposed after the Mexican War that stated that neither slavery no involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any territory gained from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
A group of southerners met with Spanish officials in Belgium to attempt to get more slave territory. They felt this would balance out congress. They tried to buy Cuba but the Spanish would not sell it.
Ostend Manifesto
the 1853 treaty in which the United States bought from Mexico parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico. Southerners wanted this land in order to build southern transcontinental railroad, it also showed the American belief in Manifest Destiny.
Gadsden Purchase
the term applied to the land west of the Missouri River and east of the Rocky Mountains. The landscape had no trees, little rainfall and tough prairie sod.
Great American Desert
was the mass migration of Americans and others to California in search of gold, which was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848. It led to California’s statehood and is one of the most important events tied to America’s Manifest Destiny and how it shaped the United States
Gold Rush
invented the sewing machine in 1845 and patented it in 1846. After a difficult battle defending his patent, he made a fortune on his invention. The sewing machine allowed clothing to be stitched in factories very quickly, contributing to the transition from handmade garments to inexpensive, mass-produced clothing.
Elias Howe
