APUSH Unit 5 Review Questions and Answers with complete solution

John Tyler - ️️elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died , President responsible for annexation of Mexico after receiving mandate from Polk, opposed many parts of the Whig program for economic recovery James Polk - ️️11th President of the United States, Election of 1844, believed in "Manifest Destiny", invited Texas to be 28th State, called "Young Hickory" Caroline and Creole Incidents - ️️Caroline was a ship that was raided By British on the St. Lawrence When Americans rallied support to send weapons to instigate a Revolt. Creole was a slvae ship that was raided in the Bahamas by Slave, brought worry from the Slave Nations. Aroostook War - ️️"Lumber Jack War" that occurred over the disputed area of Maine/Canada. Webster Ashburton Treaty - ️️treaty after Arastook war that settled US-Britian boundary disputes incl. Maine border Abraham Lincoln - ️️16th president of the united states president during the civil war and gave the emancipation proclamation and the gettysburg address assasinated by john wilkes booth. Nicholas Trist - ️️U.S. diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo - ️️got land from mexico, ended mexican american war, negotiated by trist James Slidell - ️️diplomat Polk sent to try to buy california for 20mill. ignored. (before mex-american war) spot resolutions - ️️Lincoln asked Polk to say the precise spot in which American Blood shed, because american blood was not shed in America but in disputed territory. Harriet Tubman - ️️United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North () Zachary Taylor - ️️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.Webster's 7th of March Speech - ️️Speech that called upon American Citizens to join together. It adressed one issue for disunion which was the allowed slavery into New Mexican Territory. Compromise of 1850 - ️️Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War, no slave trade in DC Millard Fillmore - ️️., Successor of President Zachary Taylor after his death on July 9th 1850. He helped pass the Compromise of 1850 by gaining the support of Northern Whigs for the compromise. Franklin Pierce - ️️an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States. his popularity in the North declined sharply after he came out in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealing the Missouri Compromise and reopening the question of the expansion of slavery in the West. Ostend Manifesto - ️️America wanted to gain Cuba as part of manifest destiny Gadsden Purchase - ️️1853 purchase of more land from mexico for purpose of building intercontinental railroad Stephen Douglas - ️️Senator from Illinois, expansionist, author of the KansasNebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine, argues in favor of popular sovereignty. debated Lincoln prior to 1860 election - advocated annexation of Mexico and strong supporter for Compromise of 1850 Kansas Nebraska Act - ️️1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Wilmot Proviso - ️️Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico (1846). never passed Panic of 1857 - ️️Economic downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands, railroads, gold in California, grain. Mostly affected northerners, who called for higher tariffs and free homesteads Harriet Beecher Stowe - ️️Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. hugely popular book in US and Europe John Brown - ️️Abolitionist. Pottawatomie Massacre (killed 5 in kansas) . was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. seen as martyr by north.Brooks vs. Sumner - ️️massatuchets senator blamed south for bleeding kansas and degrading congressmen, other senator south carolina beat him with a cane John C. Fremont - ️️Presidential nominee for Republicans in election of 1856, founded and explored california in preceding decades.