What is the ideology in the US that it was destined by God to expand over the continent of North
America? - Answers Manifest Destiny
What was based on a form of racism that saw the "white race" as inherently better and able to use land?
- Answers Manifest Destiny
What ignored the borders of other countries and the land rights of other peoples? - Answers Manifest
Destiny
Who were the three primary men on the Texas side during the Texan Revolution? - Answers 1. Stephen
F. Austin
2. Sam Houston
3. Davy Crockett
Who was the Mexican general during the Texan Revolution? - Answers Santa Anna
Sam Houston attacked Santa Anna at the Battle of _____, and Santa Anna surrendered. - Answers San
Jacinto
What battle followed two Texan defeats, and the subsequent slaughter of the garrisons of the Alamo
and Goliad? - Answers Battle of San Jacinto
Why was Martin van Buren passed over as presidential candidate by the Democrats for the 1844
election? - Answers he didn't take a stand on annexing Texas
Who was Andrew Jackson's chosen successor? - Answers Martin van Buren
Martin van Buren failed in his attempt at a second term because of what? - Answers financial crisis
Who did Martin van Burn lose to in 1840? - Answers William Henry Harrison
Why did James K. Polk win the democratic nomination? - Answers support for annexation of Texas
Who won the 1844 election? - Answers James K. Polk
Why did James K. Polk go to war with Mexico in 1846? - Answers Texas borders
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Answers ended the Mexican-American war and sold territories to the US
for $15M
Which states did the US receive as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? (8) - Answers 1. CA
2. NM
3. AZ
, 4. NV
5. UT
and parts of
6. CO
7. WY
8. TX
The Oregon Compromise - Answers northern border of the US in the Oregon Territory at the 49th
Parallel
Who oversaw the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and The Oregon Compromise? - Answers James K. Polk
Who was nominated by the Whigs to run in the election of 1848? - Answers Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was a hero in which war? - Answers Mexican-American war
Who won the election of 1848? - Answers Zachary Taylor
Who planned a naval invasion on Veracruz and then marched his army to Mexico City? - Answers
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott's assault on Veracruz was a huge [victory;failure]. - Answers victory
Wilmot Proviso - Answers if passed, it would prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
Did the Wilmot Proviso pass? - Answers no
What did the Wilmot Proviso show? - Answers growing sectional divide over the issue of slavery
Who ran in 1848 as the head of the Free Soil party? - Answers Martin van Buren
Who won the 1848 election? - Answers Zachary Taylor
Who was the democratic candidate in 1848? - Answers John Cass
California Compromise of 1850 (4) - Answers 1. allowed for popular sovereignty in the new territories on
the issue of slavery
2. established harsher fugitive slave laws
3.outlawed the slave trade in D.C.
4. overturned the Missouri Compromise