American Pageant Ch 17

56437991	William Henry Harrison	short-lived Whig party President, mainly a figurehead
56437992	John Tyler	Successor of the short-lived President, nearly a Democrat although he was officially part of the Whig party
56437993	bank, protective tariff, internal improvements	institutions that the Whig's supported
56437994	Fiscal Bank	name of New Whig proposition for a national bank
56437995	Tyler grippe	sarcastic name given to the outbreak of influenza sweeping the country
56437996	Daniel Webster	only of Tyler's cabinet to not resign after being expelled from the Whig party
56437997	Distribution of revenue from Western land sales	Most offensive aspect of the protective tariff proposed by the Whigs
56437998	Anglo-American wars, pro-British Federalists had died out, British travelers found America crude	Reasons for Anti-American passion in Britain
56437999	Charles Dickens	One of the British authors to write against the Americans
56438000	Caroline	American steamer that was attacked, provoking a series of skirmishes between Americans and Canada
56438001	McLeod	Canadian indicted for murder after boasting of participating in the Caroline affair
56438002	Creole	Ship which was captured by 130 Virginian slave rebels
56438003	Halifax to Quebec	Starting and ending cities for Canadian road
56438004	Maine	State whose boundaries were in controversy
56438005	Aroostook River Valley	No-mans land where Canadian and American lumberjacks exchanged violent blows
56438006	Lord Ashburton	British diplomat sent to compromise the boundary between America and Canada
56438007	Mesabi iron ore	Precious metal found in the compromise on Maine's boundary between America and Britain
56438008	Check southern expansion, use Texas as a puppet, challenge Monroe Doctrine	Reasons foreign powers were interested in an independent Texas
56438009	Manufacturers, abolitionists, merchants	Groups that were interested in an independent Texas
56438010	"Texas or Disunion"	Cry of southern hotheads regarding Texas
56438011	James K. Polk	Democratic president who won the election of 1844
56438012	Two-thirds majority vote needed for treaty, simple majority needed for joint resolution	Reason America did not make a treaty with Texas
56438013	John Tyler	President who deserves much of the credit for annexing Texas
56438014	54o 40'	Northern boundary of Oregon Country
56438015	Spain, Russia, Britain, United States	Countries that claimed land in Oregon
56438016	Hudson's Bay Company	Most important company in colonizing Oregon for Britain
56438017	Columbia River	River that, to the north of which, clearly marked British territory in Oregon
56438018	Captain Robert Gray	American explorer who stumbled on Oregon
56438019	Lewis and Clark	Famous exploring duo who also explored Oregon
56438020	Willamette River Valley	American settlement in Oregon instrumental to holding American soil
56438021	joint occupation	A scheme where two different peoples live side by side peacefully
56438022	Oregon Trail	Path that settlers took to settle in the new Oregon country
56438023	Columbia River, 49th Parallel, Pacific Ocean	Borders of the area of dispute in Oregon country
56438024	Columbia River	Britain's boundary of choice between American Oregon and British Oregon
56438025	49th Parallel	America's boundary of choice between American Oregon and British Oregon
56438026	James K. Polk	Democratic candidate in the election of 1844
56438027	Henry Clay	Whig candidate in the election of 1844
56438028	Manifest Destiny	The belief that Americans were chosen by God to spread over the entire continent
56438029	Robert J. Walker	Polk's secretary of treasury
56438030	Senator Benton	Senator who claimed that "Great Britain is powerful and Mexico is weak"
56438031	Nueces River	Southern boundary of Texas during Spanish-Mexican occupation
56438032	Rio Grande	Southern boundary claimed by expansive Texans
56438033	John Slidell	Diplomat sent to buy California for $25 million
56438034	General Zachary Taylor	General who led American troops to the Rio Grande
56438035	James Russel Lowell	Massachusetts man who lamented Massachusetts' involvement with the Mexican War
56438036	Abraham Lincoln	Whig congressman who pushed for specific information on where American blood had been shed on American land, to prevent unnecessary conflict
56438037	Santa Anna	Mexican exile that rallied the country against America
56438038	Stephen W. Kearny	General who led a detachment over the Santa Fe Trail to capture the outpost in Santa Fe
56438039	Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe	Two places where the Santa Fe trail stretched to
56438040	John C. Fremont	Explorer who "coincidentally"
56438041	Buena Vista	Site of Zachary Taylor's legendary victory
56438042	General Winfield Scott	General who led forces from Vera Cruz into northern Mexico, the most distinguished general
56438043	Settle Oregon dispute, acquire California, lower tariff, reinstitute independent treasury	Polk's four-point plan
56438044	Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee	Two military men who began in the Mexican War and became huge names
56438045	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	Treaty that gave America huge spoils after the American War
56438046	Nicholas P. Trist	Chief clerk of State Department that Polk sent to negotiate treaties with Mexico
56438047	David Wilmot	Congressman who proposed the amendment that would have outlawed slavery from Mexican territories
56438048	Californios	Descendants of explorers of California
56438049	ranchos	Citadels of the Californios
57642369	Aroostook War	"Battle of the maps"
57642370	Conscience Whigs	Whigs who opposed slavery
57648281	Sam Chamberlain	Observant soldier who kept an account of the horrors of the war
57650084	Native Americans, Mexico, Slavery	Conflicts with American Expansion
57650085	John L. O'Sullivan	Man who first coined the term "Manifest Destiny"
57650086	Junipero Serra	Franciscan minister who went on missions up the Pacific coast of North America
57650087	36o 30'	Line that divided the slave states from the free states