American History Chapter 13 Flashcards

5572530954	Manifest Destiny	expansionist movement of the pioneer spirit to move on to new land	0
5572532769	Aroostook War	settlers from Maine clashed with British workers cutting trees	1
5572536201	Webster-Ashborton Treaty	British got a direct land route from the Saint Lawrence River to New Brunswick and the United States got Aroostook Valley	2
5572541310	Mormons	Communal organization religious group led by Joseph Smith that was forced to move several times to escape persecution	3
5572548144	Brigham Young	new Mormon leader who sought an isolated haven territory that belonged to Mexico	4
5572551083	Santa Anna	elected president of Mexico in 1833 and gave up the alamo	5
5572554188	Sam Houston	persecuted by the Mexican army and was the military leader of the Texans	6
5572556602	John Slidell	sent as an envoy to Mexico to discuss Texas and offer $25 million for California	7
5572560418	Zachary Taylor	general sent South to the Rio Grande	8
5572563956	Winfield Scott	sent to conquer Mexico City	9
5572565693	Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	United States gained full title to Texas, California, and New Mexico and paid $15 million for California and New Mexico and the Mexican government debts amounting to $3,250,000	10
5572575373	Narcisco Lopez	best known filibuster who attempted three armed landings in Cuba with small bands of Americans to start a revolt against Spanish rule	11
5572581009	Franklin Pierce	sought southern expansion and offered $130 million for Cuba but Spain refused	12
5572584423	Ostend Manifesto	declared that if Spain would not sell Cuba, the United States would take it by force	13
5572587960	Clay-Bulwer Treaty	the United States and Britain agreed to jointly support the building of a canal through either Nicaragua or Panama	14
5572591619	Matthew Perry	sailed into Tokyo harbor and eventually helped convince Japan to open relations with the rest of the world	15