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| 56437991 | William Henry Harrison | short-lived Whig party President, mainly a figurehead | |
| 56437992 | John Tyler | Successor of the short-lived President, nearly a Democrat although he was officially part of the Whig party | |
| 56437993 | bank, protective tariff, internal improvements | institutions that the Whig's supported | |
| 56437994 | Fiscal Bank | name of New Whig proposition for a national bank | |
| 56437995 | Tyler grippe | sarcastic name given to the outbreak of influenza sweeping the country | |
| 56437996 | Daniel Webster | only of Tyler's cabinet to not resign after being expelled from the Whig party | |
| 56437997 | Distribution of revenue from Western land sales | Most offensive aspect of the protective tariff proposed by the Whigs | |
| 56437998 | Anglo-American wars, pro-British Federalists had died out, British travelers found America crude | Reasons for Anti-American passion in Britain | |
| 56437999 | Charles Dickens | One of the British authors to write against the Americans | |
| 56438000 | Caroline | American steamer that was attacked, provoking a series of skirmishes between Americans and Canada | |
| 56438001 | McLeod | Canadian indicted for murder after boasting of participating in the Caroline affair | |
| 56438002 | Creole | Ship which was captured by 130 Virginian slave rebels | |
| 56438003 | Halifax to Quebec | Starting and ending cities for Canadian road | |
| 56438004 | Maine | State whose boundaries were in controversy | |
| 56438005 | Aroostook River Valley | No-mans land where Canadian and American lumberjacks exchanged violent blows | |
| 56438006 | Lord Ashburton | British diplomat sent to compromise the boundary between America and Canada | |
| 56438007 | Mesabi iron ore | Precious metal found in the compromise on Maine's boundary between America and Britain | |
| 56438008 | Check southern expansion, use Texas as a puppet, challenge Monroe Doctrine | Reasons foreign powers were interested in an independent Texas | |
| 56438009 | Manufacturers, abolitionists, merchants | Groups that were interested in an independent Texas | |
| 56438010 | "Texas or Disunion" | Cry of southern hotheads regarding Texas | |
| 56438011 | James K. Polk | Democratic president who won the election of 1844 | |
| 56438012 | Two-thirds majority vote needed for treaty, simple majority needed for joint resolution | Reason America did not make a treaty with Texas | |
| 56438013 | John Tyler | President who deserves much of the credit for annexing Texas | |
| 56438014 | 54o 40' | Northern boundary of Oregon Country | |
| 56438015 | Spain, Russia, Britain, United States | Countries that claimed land in Oregon | |
| 56438016 | Hudson's Bay Company | Most important company in colonizing Oregon for Britain | |
| 56438017 | Columbia River | River that, to the north of which, clearly marked British territory in Oregon | |
| 56438018 | Captain Robert Gray | American explorer who stumbled on Oregon | |
| 56438019 | Lewis and Clark | Famous exploring duo who also explored Oregon | |
| 56438020 | Willamette River Valley | American settlement in Oregon instrumental to holding American soil | |
| 56438021 | joint occupation | A scheme where two different peoples live side by side peacefully | |
| 56438022 | Oregon Trail | Path that settlers took to settle in the new Oregon country | |
| 56438023 | Columbia River, 49th Parallel, Pacific Ocean | Borders of the area of dispute in Oregon country | |
| 56438024 | Columbia River | Britain's boundary of choice between American Oregon and British Oregon | |
| 56438025 | 49th Parallel | America's boundary of choice between American Oregon and British Oregon | |
| 56438026 | James K. Polk | Democratic candidate in the election of 1844 | |
| 56438027 | Henry Clay | Whig candidate in the election of 1844 | |
| 56438028 | Manifest Destiny | The belief that Americans were chosen by God to spread over the entire continent | |
| 56438029 | Robert J. Walker | Polk's secretary of treasury | |
| 56438030 | Senator Benton | Senator who claimed that "Great Britain is powerful and Mexico is weak" | |
| 56438031 | Nueces River | Southern boundary of Texas during Spanish-Mexican occupation | |
| 56438032 | Rio Grande | Southern boundary claimed by expansive Texans | |
| 56438033 | John Slidell | Diplomat sent to buy California for $25 million | |
| 56438034 | General Zachary Taylor | General who led American troops to the Rio Grande | |
| 56438035 | James Russel Lowell | Massachusetts man who lamented Massachusetts' involvement with the Mexican War | |
| 56438036 | Abraham Lincoln | Whig congressman who pushed for specific information on where American blood had been shed on American land, to prevent unnecessary conflict | |
| 56438037 | Santa Anna | Mexican exile that rallied the country against America | |
| 56438038 | Stephen W. Kearny | General who led a detachment over the Santa Fe Trail to capture the outpost in Santa Fe | |
| 56438039 | Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe | Two places where the Santa Fe trail stretched to | |
| 56438040 | John C. Fremont | Explorer who "coincidentally" | |
| 56438041 | Buena Vista | Site of Zachary Taylor's legendary victory | |
| 56438042 | General Winfield Scott | General who led forces from Vera Cruz into northern Mexico, the most distinguished general | |
| 56438043 | Settle Oregon dispute, acquire California, lower tariff, reinstitute independent treasury | Polk's four-point plan | |
| 56438044 | Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee | Two military men who began in the Mexican War and became huge names | |
| 56438045 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty that gave America huge spoils after the American War | |
| 56438046 | Nicholas P. Trist | Chief clerk of State Department that Polk sent to negotiate treaties with Mexico | |
| 56438047 | David Wilmot | Congressman who proposed the amendment that would have outlawed slavery from Mexican territories | |
| 56438048 | Californios | Descendants of explorers of California | |
| 56438049 | ranchos | Citadels of the Californios | |
| 57642369 | Aroostook War | "Battle of the maps" | |
| 57642370 | Conscience Whigs | Whigs who opposed slavery | |
| 57648281 | Sam Chamberlain | Observant soldier who kept an account of the horrors of the war | |
| 57650084 | Native Americans, Mexico, Slavery | Conflicts with American Expansion | |
| 57650085 | John L. O'Sullivan | Man who first coined the term "Manifest Destiny" | |
| 57650086 | Junipero Serra | Franciscan minister who went on missions up the Pacific coast of North America | |
| 57650087 | 36o 30' | Line that divided the slave states from the free states |
