us hist ch. 12
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- "No Irish Need Apply"
- Discrimation against immigrants from Ireland
- Alamo
- Mexico vs. Texans big victory for MExico
- American Party
- vicious, anti-immigrant anti-Catholic group. members: Know-Nothings (sworn to secrecy)
- Brief overview of Clay's Compromise/Compromise of 1850
- When gold was discovered in CA, it increased CA's value. There was an issue slavery in new states from the Mexican war. So Henry Clay made a compromise to Senator Webster, inhopes of satisfying majorities in the House, Senate, and nation.
- David Wilmot
- Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania introduced Wilmot Proviso
- Free Soil Party 1848-1854
- formed around the Free Soil Position
- Free Soil Position
- there should be no extention of slavery to the West
- Fugitive Slave Law
- federally appointed commissioners have authority to force citizens to capture runaway slaves/makes it easier and faster to catch runaway slaves/creates tension between north and south almost led to civil war
- Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California in _____
- January 1848
- James K. Polk
- President during Mexican-American war, believed in manifest destiny slogans: 54 40 or fight (to annex the Oregon Territory) and "Texas is alone but not deserted" wins election of 1844
- Meixcan War
- Polk wanted the Texas border to be at the Rio Grande River, but Mexico wants it to be at the Nueces River. Dispute over border leads to Mexico War when Mexicans attack April 1846
- Millard Fillmore
- Whig president after Zachary Taylor
- Nueces River
- Where Mexico wanted the border of Texasto be
- Points of Clay's Compromise/Compromise of 1850
- 1. CA would be a free state 2. Slavery to remain in Washington, DC but slave trade is prohibited 3. Territories of New Mexico and Utah have no restrictions on slavery 4. New, strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
- Stephen Douglas
- Democratic senator from Illinois proposes popular sovereignty on the Kansas issue
- Texas Indepdence
- Texas (Lone Star Republic) declared independence in 1836 and won indpendence from Mexico
- Then, in 1840, a group of political abolitionists split the American Anti-Slavery Society, forming the ______, because they wanted to run James G. Birney for president.
- Liberty Party
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848
- gave CA, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, UTah, and parts of Colorad to US. US pays $15 million ot MExico ends Mexican War
- wage (free) labor
- when the worker can leave whenever he wants to
- Wilmot Proviso
- by Wilmot, saying no slaves in Mexican territory passes Congress but not Senate
- Winfield Scott
- general who led main attack into Mexico city became national hero after Mexican War
- Zachary Taylor
- US President after Polk died in July 1850 US officer during Mexican War