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APUSH Mr. Clark - terms 1

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Henry Clay   show
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show Leader of the Mexican Troops/president of Mexico  
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Alamo Mission   show
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Davey Crocket   show
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Goliad   show
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show POLYGAMY Joeseph Smith original leader, journeyed to Utah, segregated themselves  
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James K Polk   show
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show slogan for where America wanted the Oregon Boundry  
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show Mexican war general  
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show Texas’s application to statehood was annexed  
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show HE BROUGHT ABOUT 300 FAMILIES TO TEXAS TO SETTLE.  
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show THIS BATTLE RESULTED IN THE CAPTURE OF SANTA ANNA WHO AGREED TO ASK MEXICO TO GRANT INDEPENDENCE TO TEXAS IN EXHANGE FOR HIS FREEDOM.  
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show MOM - a person of Hispanic descent born and living in the U.S. state of Texas  
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Oregon country   show
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Old Northwest   show
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show MOM - The eighth president and vice-president to Jackson - skilled in the arts of organization and being manipulative; political schemer  
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show MOM - suprise nomination. For ex. nobody knew who Polk was when he was nominated for pres. election.  
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show 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.  
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Sante Fe   show
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show instated under Polk, belief that it was god’s will that they expand west  
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Colonel Stephen W. Kearny   show
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John C. Fremont   show
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show revolution instigated by American propaganda caused California to revolt from Mexican control  
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show Cherokee trail of tears seized Mexico city with 14,000 troops  
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Nicolas Trist   show
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo   show
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show bill that didn’t pass but  
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show 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  
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*Compromise of 1850   show
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*John C Calhoun   show
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show MOM - senator from Massachusets who was a proponent of a strong national government  
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show 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.  
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show MOM - Senator, unbundled the compromise of 1850 and reintroduced them one at a time. Found the key to pass the entire compromise  
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show president  
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Free soil Party   show
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Fugitive Slave Act   show
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Ostend Manifesto   show
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*Gadsden purchase   show
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show 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  
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show fights broke out after popular soviergnty was to declared and people moved in in order to cast their votes  
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John Brown   show
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Senator Andrew Butler   show
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“Slave power conspiracy”   show
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Republican Party   show
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“Positive Good” thesis   show
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*Freeport Doctrine   show
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show law passed that forbid congress to talk about the issue of slavery. Mistake  
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*James Buchanan   show
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show he was already freed but was used as an example for other slaves, failed, made all laws against slavery null and void  
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Justice Roger Taney   show
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Abraham Lincoln   show
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*John C. Breckenridge   show
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California Gold Rush   show
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“Personal liberty laws”   show
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