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APUSH Tems 1
APUSH Mr. Clark - terms 1
| term | definition |
|---|---|
| Henry Clay | influential senator, corrupt bargain, American Plan, compromise of 1850, pushed back the civil war |
| Santa Anna | Leader of the Mexican Troops/president of Mexico |
| Alamo Mission | Battle in the Texas war for independence where the Texas troops went down fighting in order to give the Texas army more time to prepare |
| Davey Crocket | assumed leadership after the original commander became paralyzed |
| Goliad | Battle where the Texas troops held their ground for awhile to delay them but then surrendered expecting to be spared and were shot down by the firing squad |
| Mormons | POLYGAMY Joeseph Smith original leader, journeyed to Utah, segregated themselves |
| James K Polk | President, supporter of manifest destiny, the forgotten president |
| “fifty four forty or fight”- | slogan for where America wanted the Oregon Boundry |
| General Zachary Taylor | Mexican war general |
| Annexationists | Texas’s application to statehood was annexed |
| Stephen F. Austin | HE BROUGHT ABOUT 300 FAMILIES TO TEXAS TO SETTLE. |
| Battle of San Jacinto | THIS BATTLE RESULTED IN THE CAPTURE OF SANTA ANNA WHO AGREED TO ASK MEXICO TO GRANT INDEPENDENCE TO TEXAS IN EXHANGE FOR HIS FREEDOM. |
| Tejanos | MOM - a person of Hispanic descent born and living in the U.S. state of Texas |
| Oregon country | MOM - acquired in 1846- This territory was shared with Britain until it was divided by a peaceful agreement. At first, president Polk used the the slogan "f4-40 or fight" |
| Old Northwest | MOM - Provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest. The rectangular survey has been called "the largest single act of national planning in our history and the most significant in terms of continuing impact on the body politic" |
| Martin Van Buren | MOM - The eighth president and vice-president to Jackson - skilled in the arts of organization and being manipulative; political schemer |
| “dark horse” | MOM - suprise nomination. For ex. nobody knew who Polk was when he was nominated for pres. election. |
| Liberty Party | MOM - (3rd party) ran James G. Birney for president. Their members were Whigs who would have ote for Clay if the Liberty party had not been organized. |
| Sante Fe | MOM - wanted to build a large agricultural domain, built a fort |
| John A. Sutter | (blank) |
| Manifest Destiny | instated under Polk, belief that it was god’s will that they expand west |
| Colonel Stephen W. Kearny | MOM - was a United States Army officer, noted for his part in the Mexican-American War, especially the conquest of California. The Kearny code, which sought to govern government behavior towards Californios, was named after him. |
| John C. Fremont | instigated the bear flag revolution |
| “Bear Flag Revolution” | revolution instigated by American propaganda caused California to revolt from Mexican control |
| *General Winfield Scott | Cherokee trail of tears seized Mexico city with 14,000 troops |
| Nicolas Trist | Negotiated with Mexican was supposed to not get it to work so they could fight and tell the public that they had tried but actually got a treaty signed |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Mexico gave up California and New Mexico, boundary instated |
| Wilmot Proviso | bill that didn’t pass but |
| Lewis Cass | MOM - Cass was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery there |
| *Compromise of 1850 | Put in place by Henry Clay |
| *John C Calhoun | MOM - Powerful leader, Speaker of the House of South Carolina and vice - saw nullification as a way of preserving the Union while preventing |
| *Daniel Webster | MOM - senator from Massachusets who was a proponent of a strong national government |
| “Seventh of March Address” | MOM - speech was indeed warmly received throughout the south, the speech made him too polarizing a figure to receive the nomination and Webster was again defeated by a military hero, this time General Winfield Scott. |
| *Stephen A. Douglas | MOM - Senator, unbundled the compromise of 1850 and reintroduced them one at a time. Found the key to pass the entire compromise |
| *Millard A. Fillmore | president |
| Free soil Party | northerners who wanted to free the slaves |
| Fugitive Slave Act | part of the compromise of 1850 made it a crime to aid the escapage of slaves |
| Ableman v. Booth | (blank) |
| Ostend Manifesto | put in place by America saying that we would take military action against any country that tried to annex more land in the America’s, actually backed up by England because we did not have the navy to support it but we did not want to associate ourselves |
| *Gadsden purchase | MOM - Purchase by Congress so that the transcontinental railroad could be built through the South West |
| Kansas Nebraska Controversy | MOM - The act divided the region into the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory. The most controversial provision was the stipulation that each territory would separately decide whether to allow slavery |
| “Bleeding Kansas” | fights broke out after popular soviergnty was to declared and people moved in in order to cast their votes |
| John Brown | raided Harpers Ferry in the name of fleeing the slaves, would have succeeded if he hadn’t stayed |
| Pottawatomie Massacre | (blank) |
| *Charles Sumner | (blank) |
| Senator Andrew Butler | (blank) |
| *Preston Brooks | (blank) |
| “Slave power conspiracy” | (blank) |
| Republican Party | (blank) |
| “Positive Good” thesis | (blank) |
| *Freeport Doctrine | (blank) |
| “Gag Rule” | law passed that forbid congress to talk about the issue of slavery. Mistake |
| *James Buchanan | (blank) |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | he was already freed but was used as an example for other slaves, failed, made all laws against slavery null and void |
| Justice Roger Taney | (blank) |
| *Lecompton Constitution | (blank) |
| Abraham Lincoln | the man with the funny hat. Owned Bitches. Senator of Louisiana proposed the “spot resolution” basically show the spot where blood was shed |
| *John C. Breckenridge | (blank) |
| *William H. Seaward | (blank) |
| California Gold Rush | (blank) |
| Ida B. Tarbell | (blank) |
| “Personal liberty laws” | (blank) |
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