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Quiz 2- CH 13 Flashcards

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Manifest Destiny

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The United States has a divine mission to occupy North America

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Mexico

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Ceded from Spain 1821
Passed constitution, 1824
Banned slavery

Northern Mex- texas, cali and new mex
Economically linked w/ US

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Impresarios

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Americans with large land grants- offered by mex gov

Sold to get rich, too many immigrants- banned 1830

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Rules for impresarios

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Mexican citizenship
Convert to Catholicism
Obey Mexican government

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Texas revolt reasons

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  • Southerners brought slaves to Texas- against Mexico’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1829
  • Taxing of immigrants- wanted no taxes/ representation

-Santa Anna- Dictator of Mexico, Overthrows 1824 Constitution

-Americans and Tejanos rebel
-Form autonomous state (semi-independent)
-Reject Santa Anna
- Want restored
Constitution

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War of independence/ TEXAS REVOLUTION

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1835-36

Santa Anna sends army to Texas 1835-
o Battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto
o SAM HOUSTON defeats Santa Anna

Texas independent for 9 yrs

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Andrew Jackson

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1828-1836

Texas Congress voted for union with the US-

Jackson and US Congress did not allow annexation-Feared international repercussions – Britain / France

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William Henry Harrison

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1840

Whig party
shortest presidency ever
Vice prez. John Tyler becomes prez

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Prez John Tyler

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Wanted Republic of Texas as part of the United
States

-Needed supermajority of senate
- Senate divided between free and slave Senators- Northern Senators feared spread of slavery into Texas

-Tyler used Joint Resolution in Senate to annex Texas- Simple Majority vote

Texas joins union -1845

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Whig Party slogan

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“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”

Annexation of all Oregon up to northern border- 54 degrees and 40 minutes north parallel

OR fight Great Britain for the land

Part of manifest destiny

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Oregon Territory & Oregon Trail

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Joint Administration – Britain and United States
-American Immigrants increasing by 1840s

Oregon Trail
-Immigrants travelled largely along this trail- in wagon trains with Constitutions, assignments, and responsibilities
for each wagon

-US government signed Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851 with tribes such as the Sioux- drew boundaries to contain tribes, & keep
immigrants out of tribal lands
-Sioux had great power – position of leadership-largest tribe, least effected by disease

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Start of Mexican War

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President James Polk, (1844-1848)
Tense between US and Mexico- Border never decided– Rio Grande vs Nueces River
- General Zachary Taylor to build fort at mouth of Rio Grande- Congress declares war 1846

  • First war fought on foreign soil
    -Most Americans supported war; Dissenters worried that war was not about liberty, but conquest/ worried that slave states would be created
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Lincoln against the mexican war

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War is war of conquest, not security

President should not have authority to “Make War At Pleasure”

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Mexican war

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1846-1847

War has Three Fronts:
1. Texas into Mexico - General Zachary Taylor

  1. Northern Mexico (New Mexico to California) - Gen.
    Stephan Kearney
  2. Amphibious invasion of southern Mexico via Veracruz -gen. Winfield Scott

(4.) Bear flag republic, Cali

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Mexico Cedes 500,000 sq miles of territory

 California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada

Ended the mexican war

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Gold rush

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california 1849
100,000 migrated -1849 and 1850

Levi Strauss – Pants

Henry Wells and William Fargo – Shipping, Mail and Banking

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Compromise of 1850

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  1. In 1849 US has 30 states – 15 free and 15 slave

-California and New Mexico have enough people to become states- wanted to be free-states
- Southern slave states not happy with being outnumbered in the US
Senate
-Agree to a compromise – Senate passes and President Millard Fillmore
(1850-1853) signs the legislation

COMPROMISE:
-California = free state

  • Utah & New Mexico can decide to be free or slave states

-Fugitive Slave Act: Southerners could seize escaped slaves anywhere they are discovered in the US

-Boundary set between New Mexico and Texas, gov pays Texas $10 million for loss of land

  • Slave trade in District of Columbia is ended
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852

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Rise of Republican Party

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Democrats & Whig Party -did not like poor conditions in cities,
slavery / violence in Kansas

-Strong national and state government
- Economic and social reform
- No extension of slavery westward

Slogan: “The Twin Relics of Barbarism” - campaign of 1860

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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1857
1. Africans are not citizens
2. Non-citizens cannot sue
3. Africans are inferior and have no rights
4. Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional

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John Brown

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Armed insurrection was only way to stop slavery

-From Massachusetts
-traveled to Kansas & joined those in favor of a free-state
-Captured federal arsenal -Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 1857
- Weapons stored in arsenal were needed to arm slaves (slave revolt goal)
- Colonel Robert E. Lee offered surrender (rejected)

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1850s Differences- North and South

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50s
1. Population
a. South – 35% African
b. North- 2% African
2. Economy
a. South – 84% agriculture / 15% industry
b. North – 40% agriculture / 60% industry
3. Labor
a. South – largely slave labor
b. North – free-wage labor
4. Factories
a. South – 15% of national total
b. North – 85% of national total
5. Railroads
a. South – 10,000 miles of mostly separate lines (differing gauges)
b. North – 20,000 miles, which was largely connected to main lines (many trunk and
main lines have similar gauges)

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Election of 1860

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-1860 -southerners saw the Republican Party as John Brown’s party due to the
“Twin Relics of Barbarism”

-Abraham Lincoln (1860-1865) did not appear on ballot in many
southern states, Lincoln won the election anyway:
 The North has more population and electoral votes, earned 40% of popular vote – no southern votes

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Formation of the confederacy

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-South Carolina first to secede (declare independence) from the United States- 1860
-Jefferson Davis voted in as President (Senator from Mississippi)

-South Carolina military forces fire on Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor -1861- surrenders after one day

 Eleven states form Confederacy:
North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee.

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