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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | 0 | 20 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. | 9 sets | |
| 4 | american general in war with mexico and 12th president | 9 sets | |
| 5 | 12th president of the united states | 8 sets | |
| 6 | 12th u.s. president. 1849-1850 (died in office of natural causes). whig | 5 sets | |
| 7 | 12th president | 5 sets | |
| 8 | whig | 4 sets | |
| 9 | american general; invaded northern mexico; later elected president | 4 sets | |
| 10 | won the 1848 presidential election | 4 sets | |
| 11 | president. former war hero during mexican war, | 4 sets | |
| 12 | drove mexicans out of rio grande in the mexican/american war | 3 sets | |
| 13 | 12th | 3 sets | |
| 14 | this president opposed the compromise of 1850 | 3 sets | |
| 15 | "old rough and ready" general, wins battle of monterey, lures mexican army to attack | 3 sets | |
| 16 | whig military hero, elected president | 3 sets | |
| 17 | louisiana | 3 sets | |
| 18 | us general who led the battle over the disputed territory of the rio grande | 3 sets | |
| 19 | 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. | 3 sets | |
| 20 | ordered by polk to lead his troops across the nueces river, defeated mexicans at the battle of beuna vista | 2 sets | |
| 21 | 1849-1850, whig, free soil party - buren (free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men), barnburners, issue = slavery | 2 sets | |
| 22 | 1 year | 2 sets | |
| 23 | 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 | |
| 24 | compromise of 1850 | 2 sets | |
| 25 | 12th president of the united states. | 2 sets | |
| 26 | believed the compromise of 1850 was too lenient towards the south | 2 sets | |
| 27 | 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 | |
| 28 | defeated mexians at the battle of buena vista | 2 sets | |
| 29 | general ordered to chase out santa anna at buena vista; nicknamed "old rough and ready" later becomes president | 2 sets | |
| 30 | was a whig who became president in 1848 | 2 sets | |
| 31 | 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 | |
| 32 | who won the election of 1848? | 2 sets | |
| 33 | 12th president of u.s.; whig; dies 2 years into term and v.p. milliard fillmore takes over | 2 sets | |
| 34 | 1 | 2 sets | |
| 35 | 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 | |
| 36 | general ordered by polk to set up posts betw. the rio grande and neuces river | 2 sets | |
| 37 | "old rough and ready" | 2 sets | |
| 38 | (old rough and ready)under orders of polk, in the summer of 1845 he led a small army to texas to protect the new state against possible mexican invasion. | 2 sets | |
| 39 | twelfth president | 2 sets | |
| 40 | june 1845 polk asked this general to take u.s troops into the disputed border region | 2 sets | |