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| 106207942 | Walker Tariff of 1846 | the name for the Polk administration tariff that lowered rates from 32 to 25 percent and proved to be a good revenue producer. | |
| 106207943 | 1844 | the year of the presidential election in which the Democrats' "Young Hickory" defeated the Whigs' Henry Clay by 170 to 105 electoral votes. | |
| 106207944 | annexation of Texas | as one of his last significant acts as president in 1845, John Tyler guided this bill through Congress. | |
| 106207945 | Winfield Scott | the American general who led his forces from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in 1847. | |
| 106207946 | Lord Ashburton | the man sent by Britain in 1842 to mediate the "Aroostook War." | |
| 106207947 | Buena Vista | the battle won by the forces of Zachary Taylor in 1847 that made Taylor a "hero" and presidential timber. | |
| 106207948 | 49 degrees | in 1846 the Oregon Country was finally split, assuring that the northern boundary of the western United States would be this latitude. | |
| 106207949 | Canadian insurgents | 1837 anti-British feelings found expression in giving aid and supplies to the ____________________. | |
| 106207950 | Henry Clay | the leader of the Senate and the leader of the Whig party under William Henry Harrison. | |
| 106207951 | Creole | the British managed to upset Americans in 1841 when they offered asylum to 130 Virginia slaves who had rebelled and captured this American ship. | |
| 106207952 | John C. Fremont | the American explorer and army captain who was already in California to help raise the banner of the California Republic when the Mexican War broke out in 1846. | |
| 106207953 | Mesabi | an unexpected bonus from the settlement of the "Aroostook War" was a boundary change that gave this Minnesota iron range to the U.S. | |
| 106207954 | William Henry Harrison | the president of the U.S. who died after only four weeks in office. | |
| 106207955 | Nicholas Trist | the chief clerk of the state department sent by the U.S. to accompany General Scott to arrange for an armistice with Santa Anna in 1847. | |
| 106207956 | Thomas Hart Benton | the four-time Missouri senator who was a strong supporter of Jackson's hard-money and anti-bank policies. | |
| 106207957 | Stephen W. Kearny | the American general who in 1846 led 1,700 troops over the Santa Fe Trail from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. | |
| 106207958 | Rio Grande | in 1845 the Texans believed their southern boundary was this river. | |
| 106207959 | Liberty Party | the splinter, anti-Texas party in New York State that hastened the annexation of Texas by helping to defeat Clay. | |
| 106207960 | Wilmot Proviso | the bill passed in the U.S. House twice that declared that slavery never exist in any territory acquired from Mexico. | |
| 106207961 | Maine | the British attempt in the late 1830s to build a road from Halifax to Quebec led to a U.S.-British dispute over this state boundary. | |
| 106207962 | maps | the evidence used by the treaty negotiators for the "Aroostook War" to show their respective publics to indicate that the treaty settlement was really to their advantage. | |
| 106207963 | Spot Resolutions | the legislation introduced by Abraham Lincoln in 1846 to determine exactly where American blood had been spilled on American soil. | |
| 106207964 | Nueces | in 1845 before the Mexican War began, part of the dispute was whether the southern boundary of Texas was the Rio Grande or this other river. | |
| 106207965 | Oregon Country | the area in the early 1800s that extended from the southern tip of present-day Alaska to the northern edge of California. | |
| 106207966 | Oregon Trail | the 2,000-mile covered wagon route usually used by people who wanted to settle in the Columbia River basin in the early 1800s. | |
| 106207967 | Guadelupe Hidalgo | the treaty that ended the Mexican War in 1848. | |
| 106207968 | Webster-Ashburton | the treaty of 1842 that settled the conflict arising from the British attempt to build a road from Halifax to Quebec. | |
| 106207969 | independent treasury | a major objective of the Polk administration was to restore this financial system that had been dropped by the Whigs in 1841. | |
| 106207970 | Caroline | the U.S. steamer sunk by the British in 1837 on the Niagara River. | |
| 106207971 | Santa Anna | the dethroned Mexican dictator who promised the U.S. to sell out his country if they helped get him back to Mexico in 1846. | |
| 106207972 | John Slidell | the man sent to Mexico City in 1845 to offer $25 million for California and the territory to the east. | |
| 106207973 | Hudson's Bay Company | the British company that had a monopoly of the fur trade in the Oregon Country in the 1840s. | |
| 106207974 | Zachory Taylor | the general who led the American troops as war broke out in 1846. | |
| 106207975 | James K. Polk | the Democrats' "Young Hickory" who defeated Henry Clay in the first presidential election to feature a "dark horse" candidate. | |
| 106207976 | Mexico | the fight in the Senate over the treaty ending the Mexican War in 1848 was complicated by a group of expansionists who were intoxicated by Manifest Destiny and were clamoring for all of ____________. | |
| 106207977 | John Tyler | the pro-states' rights vice-president from Virginia who succeeded to the presidency after only four weeks in office. | |
| 106207978 | Daniel Webster | President Harrison's secretary of state. | |
| 106207979 | Willamette Valley | the river valley south of the Columbia that was the goal of many people who took the Oregon Trail in the 1840s. | |
| 106207980 | Alexander McLeod | the Canadian arrested in 1840 in New York State for the crime of helping to sink an American ship. A guilty verdict meant war with Britain. |
