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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | 0 | 22 sets | |
| 2 | 1849-1850 | 15 sets | |
| 3 | general that was a military leader in mexican-american war and 12th president of the united states. sent by president polk to lead the american army against mexico at rio grande, but defeated. | 15 sets | |
| 4 | american general in war with mexico and 12th president | 9 sets | |
| 5 | 12th president of the united states | 8 sets | |
| 6 | whig president who was a southern slave holder, and war hero (mexican-american war). won the 1848 election. surprisingly did not address the issue of slavery at all on his platform. he died during his term and his vice president was millard fillmore. | 6 sets | |
| 7 | 12th u.s. president. 1849-1850 (died in office of natural causes). whig | 6 sets | |
| 8 | 12th president | 5 sets | |
| 9 | won the 1848 presidential election | 4 sets | |
| 10 | "old rough and ready" general, wins battle of monterey, lures mexican army to attack | 4 sets | |
| 11 | whig | 4 sets | |
| 12 | president. former war hero during mexican war, | 4 sets | |
| 13 | american general; invaded northern mexico; later elected president | 4 sets | |
| 14 | twelfth president of the united states. helped the compromise of 1950 by dying. | 3 sets | |
| 15 | whig military hero, elected president | 3 sets | |
| 16 | this president opposed the compromise of 1850 | 3 sets | |
| 17 | 12th | 3 sets | |
| 18 | us general who led the battle over the disputed territory of the rio grande | 3 sets | |
| 19 | drove mexicans out of rio grande in the mexican/american war | 3 sets | |
| 20 | louisiana | 3 sets | |
| 21 | was the commander of american armies in northern mexico during the mexican war. in 1848 he was elected president as a whig candidate. he died in office in 1850 | 2 sets | |
| 22 | general who led a small army of soldiers across the disputed texas border and later secured the texas border with a victory at buena vista during the mexican war | 2 sets | |
| 23 | general ordered to chase out santa anna at buena vista; nicknamed "old rough and ready" later becomes president | 2 sets | |
| 24 | compromise of 1850 | 2 sets | |
| 25 | when president polk sent this general to camp along the rio grande river a war with mexico followed | 2 sets | |
| 26 | twelfth president | 2 sets | |
| 27 | 12th president of u.s.; whig; dies 2 years into term and v.p. milliard fillmore takes over | 2 sets | |
| 28 | who won the election of 1848? | 2 sets | |
| 29 | june 1845 polk asked this general to take u.s troops into the disputed border region | 2 sets | |
| 30 | ordered by polk to lead his troops across the nueces river, defeated mexicans at the battle of beuna vista | 2 sets | |
| 31 | 1849-1850, whig, free soil party - buren (free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men), barnburners, issue = slavery | 2 sets | |
| 32 | youngest general in war of 1812 and mexican american war, calofornia gold rush, dies in office after 16 months, possibly from eating ice cream and cherries. | 2 sets | |
| 33 | 1 | 2 sets | |
| 34 | "old rough and ready" | 2 sets | |
| 35 | his performance on the battlefield as an army general during the mexican-american war helped his reputation and later helped him to be elected president of the united states. | 2 sets | |
| 36 | taylor was a general and hero of the mexican-american war. he was elected to the presidency in 1848, representing the whig party and was a good soldier but poor administrator. he was in office during the crisis of california's admittance to the union but died in office before a compromise could be worked out, and left vice president filmore to finalize a deal between the hostile north and south. his significance as president was that he was one of the last whigs and didn’t solve the problem of sectionalism in the country which caused the civil war. | 2 sets | |
| 37 | 1 year | 2 sets | |
| 38 | 12th president of the united states. | 2 sets | |
| 39 | general ordered by polk to set up posts betw. the rio grande and neuces river | 2 sets | |
| 40 | american general who led the invasion of northern mexico | 2 sets | |