APUSH Unit 5 Vocab 1-25
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Stephen Austin | In 1822, Austin founded the first settlement of Americans in Texas. In 1833 he was sent by the colonists to negotiate with the Mexican government for Texan indedendence and was imprisoned in Mexico until 1835, when he returned to Texas and became the commander of the settlers' army in the Texas Revolution. |
| General Santa Anna | As dictator of Mexico, he led the attack on the Alamo in 1836. He was later defeated by Sam Houston at San Jacinto. |
| Alamo and Goliad | A Spanish mission converted into a fort, it was besieged by Mexican troops in 1836. The Texas garrison held out for thirteen days, but in the final battle, all of the Texans were killed by the larger Mexican force. In another battle, Texians assaulted and successfully captured a Mexican-held fort. |
| Battle of San Jacinto | A surprise attack by Texas forces on Santa Ana's camp on April 21, 1836. Santa Ana's men were surprised and overrun in twenty minutes. Santa Ana was taken prisoner and signed an armistice securing Texas independence. Mexicans - 1,500 dead, 1,000 captured. Texans - 4 dead. |
| Sam Houston | Former Governor of Tennessee and an adopted member of the Cherokee Indian tribe, Houston settled in Texas after being sent there by Pres. Jackson to negotiate with the local Indians. Appointed commander of the Texas army in 1835, he led them to victory at San Jacinto, where they were outnumbered 2 to 1. He was President of the Republic of Texas (1836-1838 & 1841-1845) and advocated Texas joining the Union in 1845. He later served as U.S. Senator and Governor of Texas, but was removed from the governorship in 1861 for refusing to ratify Texas joining the Confederacy. |
| Manifest Destiny | Phrase commonly used in the 1840's and 1850's. It expressed the inevitableness of continued expansion of the U.S. to the Pacific. |
| Oregon Boundary Dispute | a ________ over where the _______ between Canada and ______ should be drawn. This was also Polk's slogan - the Democrats wanted the U.S. border drawn at the 54º40' latitude. Polk settled for the 49º latitude in 1846. |
| Election of 1844 | James K. Polk - Democrat. Henry Clay - Whig. James G. Birney - Liberty Party. |
| James K. Polk | President known for promoting Manifest Destiny. |
| Henry Clay | "the Great Compromiser" lost to Polk in the 1844 election as well as in many other elections |
| Annexation of Texas | U.S. made ____________ a state in 1845. Joint resolution - both houses of Congress supported ________ under Tyler, and he signed the bill shortly before leaving office. |
| Oregon Treaty of 1846 | established an U.S./Canadian (British) border along this parallel. The boundary along the 49th parallel extended from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Wilmot Proviso | hen President Polk submitted his Appropriations Bill of 1846 requesting Congress' approval of the $2 million indemnity to be paid to Mexico under the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, Pennsylvania Representative David ____ attached a rider which would have barred slavery from the territory acquired. The South hated the _________ Proviso and a new Appropriations Bill was introduced in 1847 without the Proviso. It provoked one of the first debates on slavery at the federal level, and the principles of the Proviso became the core of the Free Soil, and later the Republican, Party. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | This treaty required Mexico to cede the American Southwest, including New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, to the U.S. U.S. gave Mexico $15 million in exchange, so that it would not look like conquest. |
| Zachary Taylor | Commander of the Army of Occupation on the Texas border. On President Polk's orders, he took the Army into the disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers and built a fort on the north bank of the Rio Grande River. When the Mexican Army tried to capture the fort, _____'s forces engaged in is a series of engagements that led to the Mexican War. His victories in the war and defeat of Santa Ana made him a national hero. |
| Gold Rush | a precious metal was found at Sutter's Mill in California and sparked a mass-migration there |
| John C. Calhoun | Formerly Jackson's vice-president, later a South Carolina senator. He said the North should grant the South's demands and keep quiet about slavery to keep the peace. He was a spokesman for the South and states' rights. |
| Stephen A. Douglas | A moderate, who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty. |
| popular sovereignty | The doctrine that stated that the people of a territory had the right to decide their own laws by voting. In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ________________ would decide whether a territory allowed slavery. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Called for the admission of California as a free state, organizing Utah and New Mexico with out restrictions on slavery, adjustment of the Texas/New Mexico border, abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia, and tougher fugitive slave laws. Its passage was hailed as a solution to the threat of national division. |
| Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | Enacted by Congress in 1793 and 1850, these laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners. The North was lax about enforcing the 17 1852 93 law, which irritated the South no end. The 1850 law was tougher and was aimed at eliminating the underground railroad. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | She wrote the abolitionist book, __________. It helped to crystalize the rift between the North and South. It has been called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the Civil War. |
| Franklin Pierce | won the election of 1852 due to the failing Whig Party, unpopular after he was discovered to have used the Ostend Manifesto to try to cover up the slavery conflict |
| Gadsden Purchase | 1853 - After the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo was signed, the U.S. realized that it had accidentally left portions of the southwestern stagecoach routes to California as part of Mexico. James ______, the U.S. Minister to Mexico, was instructed by President Pierce to draw up a treaty that would provide for the purchase of the territory through which the stage lines ran, along which the U.S. hoped to also eventually build a southern continental railroad. This territory makes up the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. |
| Ostend Manifesto | The recommendation that the U.S. offer Spain $20 million for Cuba. It was not carried through in part because the North feared Cuba would become another slave state. |
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