unit 5 apush (add vocab) Flashcards
context
whigs wanted internal improvements, and civilizing land US already had
democrats were expansionists, not the government’s place to do stuff with newly added lands
resident tyler had previously wanted to annex texas, texas was huge and was south of the missouri compromise line
wanted him to keep the balance by annexing all of the oregon country, they had the 54o40’ or fight directed towards him
signed the oregon treaty (mentioned above) in 1846, allowed us to get oregon, washington and parts of idaho, wyoming and montana
tried to buy the southwest from mexico with calhoun but got completely ignored
manifest destiny
the mexican american war
compromise of 1850
sectional conflict/regional differences
failure of compromise
election of 1860 and secession
military conflict in the civil war
govt policy during the civil war
reconstruction
failure of reconstruction
comparison
presidents of unit 5
polk, taylor, fillimore, pierce, buchanan, lincoln, johnson, grant