AP US History
American Pageant 13th Ed.
Chapter 17 Review
(Vocab + Questions)
Also used:
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| 1938741821 | William Henry Harrison | Whig President elected in 1840 who suddenly died after only on month in office |  | 0 |
| 1938741822 | John Tyler | Didn't have Whig beliefs; had a strong independent streak |  | 1 |
| 1938741823 | McLeod | boasted of helping in the attack on the U.S. ship Caroline and was arrested and condemned to execution | 2 | |
| 1938741824 | Creole (American ship) | Ship that was overtaken by 130 slaves; British gave asylum to the slaves (this upset Southern Americans) | 3 | |
| 1938741825 | Aroostook War | largely fought by lumberjacks fighting on each side over who'd get to chop down the lumber | 4 | |
| 1938741826 | Webster-Ashburton Treaty | • Treaty resolving Aroostook War • Roughly split the difference of land • U.S. got Mesabi range in Minnesota | 5 | |
| 1938741827 | Mesabi iron ore range | an extremely valuable piece of land and helped supply the American industrial revolution's need for iron ore to make steel | 6 | |
| 1938741828 | James K. Polk | Ran for president on a very clear pro-expansion platform | 7 | |
| 1938741829 | Mexico | Country that claimed U.S. stole Texas from them | 8 | |
| 1938741830 | Captain Robert Gray | Explored the coast of Columbia River into the heart of the Oregon territory, giving the U.S. a strong claim on that territory | 9 | |
| 1938741831 | Oregon Trail | pioneer trail that began in Missouri and crossed the Great Plains into the Oregon Country | 10 | |
| 1938741832 | Election of 1844 | James K. Polk defeated Henry Clay for President | 11 | |
| 1938741833 | Young Hickory | Nickame given to James Polk due to his similar beliefs and birthplace as Andrew Jackson | 12 | |
| 1938741834 | Polk's 4-Point Mission | 1. Lower the tariff 2. Restore the independent treasury (put U.S. money into non-government banks) 3. Clear up the Oregon border issue 4. Get California | 13 | |
| 1938741835 | Robert J. Walker | Polk's Secretary of Treasury who helped lower the tariff from 32% to 25% | 14 | |
| 1938741836 | 49th parallel | line at which the Oregon Territory was drawn in 1846 separating the British and American claims | 15 | |
| 1938741837 | John Slidell | Sent by James Polk to Mexico City to make an offer to purchase California for $25 million; Mexico declined | 16 | |
| 1938741838 | spot resolution | When Abraham Lincoln refused to vote for war with Mexico until he knew who actually owned the disputed land | 17 | |
| 1938741839 | General Stephen W. Kearny | Marched wth his 1,700 troops to the New Mexico and Mexico border then to San Diego | 18 | |
| 1938741840 | Captain John C. Fremont | Took California and proclaimed the "Bear Flag Republic" | 19 | |
| 1938741841 | Commodore Sloat | Came by boat with U.S. Navy to secure California for good | 20 | |
| 1938741842 | General Zachary Taylor | scored victories in Texas; well-known for beating Santa Anna at Buena Vista | 21 | |
| 1938741843 | General Winfield Scott ("Old Rough and Ready") | Sent to Mexico city to deliever the coup d'grace (final blow); he conquered Mexico City | 22 | |
| 1938741844 | Nicholas Trist | Diplomat sent along with Scott's army; his job was to secure a peace deal as soon as Polk's demands were met | 23 | |
| 1938741845 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | • Treaty worked out by Trist • Ended the war • America got land • U.S. pay $15 million for land and assume $3.5 million in debts from Mexico • U.S. "forced" Mexico to sell land | 24 | |
| 1938741846 | Mexican Cession | Land bought from Mexico including California and the future states of NV, AZ, NM, CO, and UT | 25 | |
| 1938741847 | 13,000 | American deaths in the Mexican War | 26 | |
| 1938741848 | Wilmot Proviso | suggested that the Mexican Cession lands be closed to slavery | 27 | |
| 1938741849 | Liberty (party) | Party that "stole" votes from Henry Clay | 28 | |
| 1938741850 | Canada | British colony where Americans regularly aided anti-government rebels | 29 | |
| 1938741851 | Maine | state where "Aroostook War" was fought over a disputed boundary with Canada | 30 | |
| 1938741852 | Britain | Nation that strongly backed independence for Texas, hoping to turn it into an economic asset and antislavery bastion | 31 | |
| 1938741853 | Conscience Whigs | Antislavery Whigs who opposed both the Texas annexation and the Mexican War on moral grounds | 32 | |
| 1938741854 | joint resolution | Act of both houses of Congress by which Texas was annexed | 33 | |
| 1938741855 | 54° 40' | Northern boundary of Oregon territory jointly occupied with Britain, advocated by Democratic party and others as the desired line of American expansion | 34 | |
| 1938741856 | Oregon Trail | Two-thousand-mile-long path along which thousands of Americans journeyed to the Willamette VaHey in the 1840s | 35 | |
| 1938741857 | Manifest Destiny | the widespread American belief that God had ordained the United States to occupy all the territory of North America | 36 | |
| 1938741858 | Liberty party | Small antislavery party that took enough votes from Henry Clay to cost him the election of 1844 | 37 | |
| 1938741859 | 49° (49th parallel) | Final compromise line that settled the Oregon boundary dispute in 1846 | 38 | |
| 1938741860 | California | Rich Mexican province that Polk tried to buy and Mexico refused to sell | 39 | |
| 1938741861 | Nueces River | River that Mexico claimed as the Texas-Mexico boundary, crossed by Taylor's troops in 1846 | 40 |
