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| 980300006 | John Tyler | Leader elected vice president on the Whig ticket who spent most of his presidency in bitter fueds with his fellow Whigs, becomes president after Harrison dies | |
| 980300007 | John Slidell | Polk dispatched him to Mexico City as minister in 1845. The Mexican people wouldn't even let him present his proposition that would've offered at least $25 million for California and territory to the east. | |
| 980300008 | Winfield Scott | the main american military campaign that finally captured Mexico City was commanded by | |
| 980300009 | Lord Ashburton | Man 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. Ashburton and Webster finally compromised on the Maine boundary. They split the area of land and Britain kept the Halifax-Quebec route. Settled the Carolina conflict. | |
| 980300010 | 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. | |
| 980300011 | Nicholas P. Trist | Sent as a special envoy by President Polk to Mexico City in 1847 to negotiate an end to the Mexican War. Settled the treaty of Guadalupe Hidlago. | |
| 980300012 | James K. Polk | the 11th U.S. President elected in 1844, he led the country during the Mexican War and sought to expand the United States | |
| 980300013 | Stephen W. Kearny | American general in war with Mexico, he captured Santa Fe without fireing a shot, Captures Sante Fe, secures California. also known as "Long March" was made a Col. by Polk, across desert to SantaFe captured NM without shot | |
| 980300014 | 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 new former Mexican territory after the Mexican-American War. It did not pass, but was considered the first event in a long slide towards the Civil War. | |
| 980300015 | Robert Gray | Ship captain who explored the Oregon territory in the late 1700's Discovered the Columbia River in 1792. Named the river after his ship | |
| 980300016 | John C. Freemont | led groups into southwestern Mexico to claim California as an independent nation | |
| 980300017 | Joint resolution | Act of both houses of Congress by which Texas was annexed | |
| 980300018 | Manifest Destiny | The widespread American belief that God had ordained the United States to occupy all the territory of North American | |
| 980300019 | 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. | |
| 980300020 | Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 1842-treaty negotiated by Lord Ashburton of Great Britain and Daniel Webster of the United States. It settled a dispute over the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. The treaty was very popular in the North because the United States got more than half of the disputed territory. | |
| 980300021 | Spot resolutions | Proposed by Abraham Lincoln. After news from president James K. Polk that 16 American service men had been killed or wounded on the Mexican border in American territory, Abraham Lincoln, then a congressman from Illinois, proposed these resolutions to find out exactly on what spot the American soldier's blood had been shed. In Polk's report to congress the President stated that the American soldiers fell on American soil, but they actually fell on disputed territory that Mexico had historical claims to. To find out were the soldiers fell was important because congress was near to declaring war on Mexico. | |
| 980300022 | 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. | |
| 980300023 | "conscience" Whigs | AntislaveryWhigs who opposed both the Texas Annexation and the Mexican War on moral grounds | |
| 980300024 | Bear Flag revolt | 1846-A revolt of American settlers in California against Mexican rule. It ignited the Mexican War and ultimately made California a state. | |
| 980300025 | Caroline | An American steamer/ship that was attacked by the British while it was carrying supplies to the insurgents across the Niagara River. It was set on fire and sank short of Niagara Falls. | |
| 980300026 | Hudson's Bay Company | founded in 1670 in London by a group of British merchants eager to exploit the resources of northern Canada. | |
| 980300027 | Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo | 1848-This treaty ended the Mexican War. The US gained much of the territory that now make up its southwestern states (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, etc.) in exchange for $15 million | |
| 980300028 | Californios | is a term used to identify a Spanish-speaking, mostly Roman Catholic people, or of Latin American descent, regardless of race, born in California from the first Spanish colonies established by the Portolá expedition | |
| 980300029 | Liberty party | Small antislavery party that took enough votes from Henry Clay to cost him the election of 1844 | |
| 980300030 | "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 | |
| 980300031 | Aroostook War | 1839-Maine lumberjacks camped along the Aroostook River in Main tried to oust Canadian rivals. Militia were called in from both sides until the Webster Ashburn - Treaty was signed. Took place in disputed territory. | |
| 980300032 | Walker Tariff | 1846-Democratic bill that reversed the high rates of tariffs imposed by the Whig-backed "Black Tariff" of 1842 under president John Tyler | |
| 980300033 | Wilmot Proviso | 1846 that congress ban slavery in all southwestern lands that might become states; passed in the House but not by the Senate; slave states saw it as a northern attack on slavery |
