Term | Definition |
Tariff of 1842 | John Tyler had no fondness for a protective tariff but wanted additional revenue |
Caroline | American Streamer, Carrying supplies to the insurgents across the swift Niagara River. Attacked on New York shore by Brit. and set vessel on fire. |
Creole | An American ship that was captured by 130 Virginia slaves who rebelled and captured it. |
Aroostook War | A small-scale lumberjack clash, which threatened to widen into a full-dress shooting war. |
Manifest Destiny | Emotional upsurge in 1844that countless citizens feeling a sense of mission, believed that the almighty God had a "Manifestly" destined the American people for a hemispheric career. Hoping to spread over the entire continent and possibly to South America. |
"Fifty-four forty or fight" | In 1846 "Reannexation of Texas" and the "Reoccupation of Oregon." an Outbellowing the Whig logcabinites in the game of slogans. "All of Oregon or None." |
Liberty Party | A tiny anitslavery group 1840-1844 that had 16,000 votes, many of which would otherwise have gone to the unlucky Kentuckian. |
Walker Tariff | Low- tariff that lowered to 25%. New England and the middle state, who cried that American Manufacturing would be ruined. |
spot resolutions | Abraham would request the precise "spot" on American soil where American blood had been shed. Whigs called the president a liar -"Polk the Mendacious." |
California Bear Flag Republic | John C. Fremount helping to overthrow Mexican rule in 1846, he collaborated with American naval officers and with the local Americans, who had hoisted the banner. |
Battle of Buena Vista | General Zachary Taylor with five thousand men attacked by twenty thousand men under Santa Anna. Taylor won with extreme difficulty Became "Hero of Buena Vista." |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Forward to Washington on February 2, 1848. Confirmed the American title to Texas and yielded the enormous area stretching westward to Oregon and the ocean and embracing coveted California. |
Conscience Whigs | "Mexican Whigs" was dubbed by the antislavery Whigs in Congress- they were denouncing "damnable war" with increasing heat.Threatening to vote down the supplies for the armies in the field. |
Wilmot Proviso | Never became a federal law eventually endorsed by the legislatures of all but one of the free states, and it came to symbolize the burning issue of slavery in the territories. |