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| 11293971367 | John Tyler | elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died 1841-1845, President responsible for annexation of Mexico after receiving mandate from Polk, opposed many parts of the Whig program for economic recovery | 0 | |
| 11293971368 | John Slidell | A diplomat sent by Polk to buy California, New Mexico, and Texas from the Mexicans. Mexico rejected his offer and Polk sent Taylor's army into Mexico | 1 | |
| 11293971369 | Winfield Scott | United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866) | 2 | |
| 11293971370 | Lord Ashburton | He was sent by England to Washington in 1842 to work things out with Secretary Webster over boundary disputes. He was a nonprofessional diplomat that was married to a wealthy American woman. He and Webster finally compromised on the Maine boundary. They split the area of land and Britain kept the Halifax-Quebec route. | 3 | |
| 11293971371 | Zachary Taylor | General that was a military leader in Mexican-American War and 12th president of the United States. Sent by president Polk to lead the American Army against Mexico at Rio Grande, but defeated. | 4 | |
| 11293971372 | Nicholas Trist | Sent as a special envoy by President Polk to Mexico City in 1847 to negotiate an end to the Mexican War. | 5 | |
| 11293971373 | James K. Polk | president in March 1845. wanted to settle oregon boundary dispute with britain. wanted to aquire California. wanted to incorperate Texas into union. | 6 | |
| 11293971374 | Stephen Kearney | This Colonel, under the direction of Polk, led a small army that captured Santa Fe with no opposition. He then proceeded to California where he joined a conflict already in progress that was being staged jointly by American settlers | 7 | |
| 11293971375 | David Wilmot | member of Congress best known for the "Wilmot Proviso" (1846). This was a plan to not allow slavery in any of the land annexed from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. It did not pass, but was considered the first event in a long slide towards the Civil War. | 8 | |
| 11293971376 | Robert Gray | American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) | 9 | |
| 11293971377 | John C. Fremont | an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery. | 10 | |
| 11293971378 | William Henry Harrison | 9th President of the United States | 11 | |
| 11293971379 | Santa Anna | Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876) | 12 | |
| 11293971380 | joint resolution | a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the chief executive (or passed over the executive's veto) | 13 | |
| 11293971381 | Manifest Destinty | Idea that it was inevitable that the U.S, would expand across the continent | 14 | |
| 11293971382 | Fiscal bank | Went on the same lines as the two Banks of the US It seems the word fiscal in the title gave the idea that it would overcome some of the popular objections to the establishment of a third great national bank. President vetoed it in 1841 on alleged constitutional grounds. This ended all serious attempts to create a great national bank. | 15 | |
| 11293971383 | webster-ashburton treaty | 1842 between the US and the Brits, settled boundry disputes in the North West, fixed most borders between US and Canada, talked about slavery and excredition | 16 | |
| 11293971384 | spot resolutions | Congressman Abraham Lincoln supported a proposition to find the exact spot where American troops were fired upon, suspecting that they had illegally crossed into Mexican territory. | 17 | |
| 11293971385 | Tariff of 1842 | A protective tariff signed by President John Tyler, it raised the general level of duties to about where they had been before the Compromise Tariff of 1833. Also banned pornography by increasing its cost. | 18 | |
| 11293971386 | conscience whigs | Opposed the US-MEX war from the beginning on moral grounds. Warned of a S conspiracy to add new slave states in the W, undermine the Jeffersonian ideal of a yeoman freeholder society and ensure permanent control of the fed govt by slaveholding Dems | 19 | |
| 11293971387 | bear flag revolt | A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican rule. It ignited the Mexican War and ultimately made California a state. | 20 | |
| 11293971388 | Caroline | of or relating to the life and times of kings Charles I or Charles II of England | 21 | |
| 11293971389 | Hudson Bay's Company | founded in 1670 in London, England, by a group of British merchants eager to exploit the resources of northern Canada. | 22 | |
| 11293971390 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million | 23 | |
| 11293971391 | Californios | Descendents of Spanish and Mexican conquerors; Spanish speaking inhabitants of California they were culture of Mexico carried to California. | 24 | |
| 11293971392 | 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 | 25 | |
| 11293971393 | all of Mexico | People that believed strong in the Manifest Destiny wanted all of Mexico to be added to the country which posed many problems and was never done | 26 | |
| 11293971394 | Aroostook War | The result of the conflict over The Caroline ship, which consisted of angry Americans and Canadians, mostly lumberjacks, began moving into the disputed Aroostook River region, causing a violent brawl. | 27 | |
| 11293971395 | Walker Tariff | Democratic bill that reversed the high rates of tariffs imposed by the Whig-backed "Black Tariff" of 1842 under president John Tyler | 28 | |
| 11293971396 | Wilmot Proviso | Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico | 29 | |
| 11293971397 | Whigs | conservatives and popular with pro-Bank people and plantation owners. They mainly came from the National Republican Party, which was once largely Federalists. They took their name from the British political party that had opposed King George during the American Revolution. Their policies included support of industry, protective tariffs, and Clay's American System. They were generally upper class in origin. Included Clay and Webster | 30 | |
| 11293971398 | Oregon Fever | Enthusiasm for emigration to the Oregon Country in the late 1830s and early 1840s. | 31 | |
| 11293971399 | Maine | a state in New England | 32 | |
| 11293971400 | Rio Grande | a North American river | 33 |
