Autonomy
California
One third (1/3)
Santa Fe Trail
House of Representatives
Zachary Taylor
Independence, Missouri
David Wilmot
The Oregon Territory was split between the U.S. and Great Britain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
African Americans
The Great Plains
Wagons
Chapultepec
Millard Fillmore
Between Fort Boise and Fort Bridger
Zachary Taylor
They were rich in resources and did not have many settlers
Expansionists
passed by states in the North to counter the fugitive slave law
Washington D.C.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
James K. Polk
General Santa Anna
Democrats
Who did the state Constitution drawn up by Californians at a convention in 1849 exclude?
Why did Texas, California, and New Mexico attract expansionists in the 1820's?
What was the outcome of Polk's expansionist policies in the Oregon Territory?
Who was President of the U.S. during the Mexican-American War?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase increased the area of the U.S. by how much?
U.S. Army general who won several victories in the Mexican-American War
Where was slave trade prohibited?
What were people who believed in Manifest Destiny known as?
This President passed the Compromise
What is the trail that was developed by traders in the mid-1800s, connecting Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
This President pledged to veto the Compromise
What natural boundary did many westward emigrants bypass?
Which group was enthusiastically in favor of war with Mexico?
Where did the Santa Fe Trail originate?
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852?
What is the term that is defined as independent control over one's own control?
What state's application created great conflict between the North and South?
Winfield Scott faced bitter resistance from the Mexican army at
This PA Congressman called for prohibition of slavery from any land won from Mexico
What did people typically travel in on the Oregon Trail?
What are liberty laws?
What section of Congress did the Wilmot Proviso pass?
WHo was defeated in the Battle of San Jacinto
Where does the California Trail separate from the Oregon Trail?
Who seized power in an 1834 Mexico City revolt?
