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| 537218591 | Willam Henry Harrison | 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after. | |
| 537218592 | John Tyler | Dubbed "His Accidency" by his detractors, he was the first Vice President to be elevated to the office of President by the death of his predecessor. He vetoed the 3rd Bank of the United States that was proposed by Henry Clay | |
| 537218593 | WHO was dubbed "His Accidency" by his detractors,"His Accidency"? | John Tyler | |
| 537218594 | Henry Clay | leader of the senate whigs and unsuccessful presidential candidate against Polk in 1844 | |
| 537218595 | Caroline | A group of Canadian rebels determined to free Canada from British rule made looting forays into Canada from an island being supplied by a ship from Carolina. The Canadians burned the vessel and killed an American on board. | |
| 537218596 | Creole | it involved slaves who mutinied and killed a crewman aboard this ship, then sailed to the Bahamas, where the British let them all go. The U.S. wanted the slaves back, but Britain refused | |
| 537218597 | Aroostook War | Maine lumberjacks camped along the river in Maine in 1839 tried to oust Canadian rivals. Militias were called in from both sides until an agreement was reached. Took place in disputed territory of the Canada-Maine boundary | |
| 537218598 | Lord Ashburton | the second son of Sir Francis Baring (a title that has been created twice and revived) | |
| 537218599 | Daniel Webster | whig leader and secretary who negotiated an end to maine boundary dispute in 1842 | |
| 537218600 | Lone Star Rebublic | Nickname for Texas after it won independence | |
| 537218601 | Conscience Whigs | A political faction that condemned slavery on moral grounds. | |
| 537218602 | 54 40' (or flight?) | an aggressive slogan adopted in the Oregon boundary dispute, a dispute over where the border between Canada and Oregon should be drawn. This was also Polk's Democratic campaign slogan in the Election of 1844 | |
| 537218603 | Wilamemette Valley | the river valley south of the Columbia that was the goal of many people who took the Oregon Trail in the 1840s. | |
| 537218604 | Oregone Trail | a common route to Oregon during the early 1840's | |
| 537218605 | James K. Polk | As President of the United States, his expansionism led to the Mexican-American War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest | |
| 537218606 | Dark Horse | a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly | |
| 537218607 | John Slidell | President Polk authorized this states' right Democrat to travel to Mexico City to offer Mexico up to $40 million for the purchase of Alta California and New Mexico Territory | |
| 537218608 | Nueces River | River that Mexico claimed as the Texas-Mexico boundary, crossed by Taylor's troops in 1846 | |
| 537218609 | Zachary Taylor | Commander of the Army of Occupation on the Texas border. On President Polk's orders, he took the Army into the disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers and built a fort on the north bank of the Rio Grande River. When the Mexican Army tried to capture the fort, his forces engaged in is a series of engagements that led to the Mexican War. His victories in the war and defeat of Santa Anna made him a national hero | |
| 537218610 | Spot Resolutions | Congressman Abraham Lincoln supported a proposition to find the exact location where American troops were fired upon, suspecting that they had illegally crossed into Mexican territory | |
| 537218611 | Stephen Kearney | Marched wth his 1,700 troops to the New Mexico and Mexico border then to San Diego | |
| 537218612 | John C. Fremont | United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890) | |
| 537218613 | Bear Flag Republic | The government established by American settlers in California following a rebellion in 1846. | |
| 537218614 | Winfield Scott | "Old Fuss and Feathers", United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866) | |
| 537218615 | Nicholas P. Trist | Negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| 537218616 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | TX was annexed and the bottom border was Rio Grande -MEXICAN CESSION: CA, NV, UT, AZ, NM, and parts of CO -U.S. paid 15 million to Mexico for all land | |
| 537218617 | Wilmot Proviso | stated that slavery should not exist in any of the Mexican cessions -passed House, but not Senate -IMPORTANCE: opened old wounds of slavery and leads to the Civil War | |
| 537218618 | Californios | Were the Hispanic residents of California. | |
| 537218619 | Father Juipero Serra | Founded a chain of 21 missions along the California coast | |
| 537218620 | Franciscans | Spanish religious converters who experienced limited success due to their coercive tactics and forced labor. | |
| 537218621 | Secularization | Act created in 1833 this act emancipated Indians from church control; opened mission lands to settlement. | |
| 537218622 | Anglos | Second Powhatan War resulted in the indians being force from there land |
