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-General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna abolished Mexico's federalist constitution and established more centralized, authoritarian government
-actions alienated Texans, who believed their local rights were under threat -
-Sam Houston led revolt, claimed territory north of Rio Grande
-key battles became rallying cries
-Houston requested U.S. annexation after independence -
-Resolved Maine Canada boundary dispute
-improved U.S. British relations by ending years of tension over region
-established clearer cooperation on issues (extradition, anti slave trade patrols) -
-expansion into Oregon=major political issue
-James K. Polk campaigned on asserting U.S. claims up to 54th parallel
-slogan, 54 40 or Flight, appealed to expansionists -
-popularized by John L. O'Sullivan
-argued that U.S. had a God given mission to expand its territory across North American continent
-"divine right" and a natural, inevitable process
-extension of America's republican institutions, Protestant values, belief in national progress
-central ideology of 1840s
-shaped debates over territorial growth and American identity -
-11th president of U.S.
-aggressive expansionist polices
-President during Mexican American war -
-right at start of American-Mexican war
-Wilmot proposed banning slavery in all new territory acquired by Mexico
-passed house twice, failed senate -
-Tensions over Texas border had been growing since U.S. annexed Texas
-Mexican cavalry unit crossed Rio Grande into disputed territory
-attacked a U.S. patrol, killed 11 American soldiers
-Polk declared war
-Whigs questioned whether clash truly occurred on U.S. soil
-Congress authorized the war
-Mexico suffered severe military defeats
-war increased U.S. territorial size and intensified national debates over expansion of slavery
-helped develop generation of military leaders -
-agreement between US and Mexico
-officially ended Mexican American war
-Allowed US troops to buy parts of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas -
-Antislavery political party
-opposing the expansion of slavery into western territories
-Free soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, Free Men -
-required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway enslaved people
-Omtestified Northern resistance towards slavery -
-laws admitted California as a free state
-strengthened Fugitive Slave Acts
-allowed for popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
-banned slave trade in D.C.
-settled Texas/New Mexico Border -
-Territory purchase made by U.S.
-for parts of modern Arizona and New Mexico
-US gave Mexico $10 million -
-created Kansas and Nebraska territories with popular sovereignty on slavery
-effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise
-triggered "Bleeding Kansas" -
-war between US and Mexico
-resulted in US acquiring land -
-Scott sued for his freedom
-claimed that four year stay in northern portion of Louisiana Territory, made free land by Missouri Compromise, made him a free man
-U.S. Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not citizen -
-site where John Brown executed his raid
-Brown attacked federal armory with goal of starting slave rebellion (unsuccessful) -
-first major battle of Civil War
-Confederacy shattered Northern's hope for a quick war -
-president of the Confederate States of America
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-16th president of U.S.
-assassinated
-leader during Civil War
-abolished slavery with Emancipation Proclamation
-passed 13th Amendment -
-Bloodiest single day of the Civil War
-Union strategic victory
-allowed Lincoln to issue Emancipation Proclamation -
-Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
-ended Civil War -
-18th president of the U.S.
-general for Union during Civil War
-known for being an aggressive and determined strategist