Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
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| 537141947 | Manifest Destiny | America destined by God to expand liberty to all realms | |
| 537141948 | Henry Clay | Feared expansion would lead to conflicts over slavery and threaten stability of the Union | |
| 537141949 | Stephen Austin | Est. 1st legal settlement in TX Created centre of power that competed w/ MX gov | |
| 537141950 | Gen Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | MX dictator Crushed TX rebellion but captured by Houston Signed Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, giving TX independence | |
| 537141951 | Alamo Mission | Mexicans defeat TX rebellion at St. Antonio | |
| 537141952 | Davy Crockett | member Alamo Mission | |
| 537141953 | Goliad | Mexicans execute TX garrison that had surrendered | |
| 537141954 | Battle of San Jacinto | Gen. de Santa Anna captured | |
| 537141955 | Tejanos | Texan mexicans | |
| 537141956 | Oregon Country | Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana, Wyoming, and British Columbia | |
| 537141957 | Joint Occupation | Citizens of different countries allowed access to an area | |
| 537141958 | Old Northwest | Majority of Western settlers | |
| 537141959 | Mormons | Migrated to escape religious persecution | |
| 537179948 | Martin Van Buren | Didn't take a stand on annexation of TX | |
| 537179949 | James K Polk | Made TX, CA, and NM states est. 49th parallel | |
| 537179950 | Dark Horse | a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly | |
| 537179951 | Fifty Four Forty or Fight | slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for us annexation of the oregon territory | |
| 537179952 | Liberty Party | A former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848 | |
| 537179953 | General Zachary Taylor | Sent to protect TX, defeated Gen. de Santa Anna | |
| 537179954 | Santa Fe | Becomes more American than MX, captured in MX War | |
| 537915434 | John A Sutter | Owner of Sutter's Mill, where the first gold was found | |
| 537915435 | Mexican War | (1846-1848) War declared after Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande into Texas. Ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| 537915436 | Colonel Stephen W. Kearny | Led the army that occupied Santa Fe. Later proceeded to California and joined the "Bear Flag Revolution" | |
| 537915437 | John C Fremont | Presidential nominee for Republicans in election of 1856, founded and explored california in preceding decades, where he was part of the Bear Flag Revolution | |
| 537915438 | Bear Flag Revolution | A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican rule. It ignited the Mexican War and ultimately made California a state. | |
| 537915439 | General Winfield Scott | Led the U.S. forces' march on Mexico City during the Mexican War. He took the city and ended the war. | |
| 537915440 | Nicolas Trist | Negotiated Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| 537915441 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexicans cede California and New Mexico Texas border confirmed as the Rio Grande Mexico receives $1 mil | |
| 537915442 | Wilmot Proviso | Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico | |
| 537915443 | Popular Sovereignty | people hold the final authority in all matters of government | |
| 537915444 | Lewis Cass | 1848 Democratic candidate known as the Father of Popular Sovereignty | |
| 537915445 | Compromise of 1850 | Fugitive Slave Act No slave trade in DC, but slavery still allowed All newly requisitioned states have no restrictions on slavery | |
| 537915446 | John C Calhoun | Wanted North to observe Fugitive Slave Act Wanted a dual-presidency (North and South) | |
| 537915447 | Daniel Webster | Supported Clay and Compromise of 1850 and gave Seventh of March Address in favor of | |
| 537915448 | Seventh of March Address | famous speech given by daniel webster supporting Compromise of 1850 to keep union together | |
| 537915449 | Stephen A Douglas | Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine | |
| 537915450 | Millard A Fillmore | Successor of President Zachary Taylor after his death on July 9th 1850. He helped pass the Compromise of 1850 by gaining the support of Northern Whigs for the compromise. | |
| 537915451 | Free Soil Party | dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory. | |
| 537915452 | Fugitive Slave Act | a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders | |
| 537915453 | Ableman vs. Booth | Fugitive Slave Act was constitutional | |
| 537915454 | Ostend Manifesto | Wanted to take Spanish Cuba by force | |
| 537915455 | Gadsden Purchase | Bought parts of Arizona and New Mexico for railroad | |
| 537915456 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Repeals Missouri Compromise Douglas allows popular sovereignty for Northern railroad Forms republican party Destroys Whig party | |
| 537915457 | Bleeding Kansas | Slave owners move to Kansas from Missouri and make slavery legal Abolitionists form own constitution, accused of treason, and attacked In retaliation, Abolitionists fight back (Pottawatomie Massacre) | |
| 537915458 | John Brown | Chosen by God to destroy slavery Led Pottawatomie massacre and other revolts | |
| 537915459 | Pottawatomie Massacre | Brown and six others mutilate five pro-slavery settlers in one night | |
| 537915460 | Charles Sumner | Fiery abolitionist senator Beaten half to death by Preston Brooks | |
| 537915461 | Andrew Butler | this Senator from South Carolina was singled out in Charles Sumner's "Crime Against Kansas" speech for choosing the harlot, slavery as his mistress | |
| 537915462 | Preston Brooks | Responsible for beating radical republican Charles Sumner with his cane | |
| 537915463 | Slave Power Conspiracy | North propoganda that the South wanted to extend slavery and destroy North capitalism and replace w/ southern aristocratic system | |
| 537915464 | Republican Party | Abolitionist, Free Soil | |
| 537915465 | Positive Good Thesis | Slaves are in better conditions than North laborers Only way two racial groups can coexist The South is key to national prosperity via slaves | |
| 537915466 | Freeport Doctrine | Idea authored by Stephen Douglas that claimed slavery could only exist when popular sovereignty said so | |
| 537915467 | Gag Rule | 1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress | |
| 537915468 | James Buchanan | Democrat but too moderate, and angered both sides Too weak to stop SC's secession | |
| 537915469 | Dred Scott v Sandford | 1857 Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens; that livig in a free state or territory, even for many years, did not free slaves; and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitional | |
| 537915470 | Roger Taney | Bigot, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made | |
| 537915471 | Lecompton Decision | Kansas as slave state | |
| 537915472 | Abraham Lincoln | Republican Believed slavery morally wrong but not abolitionist | |
| 537915473 | John Brown's Raid | In 1859, planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed. | |
| 537915474 | John C Brekenridge | 1860 presidential candidate for the Southern Democrats | |
| 537915475 | William H Seward | antislaveryite from New York, he stated that on the issue of slavery, there was a higher law than the Constitution | |
| 537915476 | John Bell | Presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union Party. He drew votes away from the Democrats, helping Lincoln win. | |
| 537915477 | Ida B Tarbell | Wrote "The History of the Standard Oil Company" which exposed the ruthlessness with which John B. Rockerfeller had turned his oil business into an all powerful monopoly | |
| 537915478 | Personal Liberty Laws | Nullified Fugitive Slave Act |
