APUSH Unit 5 Vocab Flashcard

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The idea that it was God's plan for the US to extend from coast to coast

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Manifest Destiny

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the president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny - his campaign slogan was 54'40 or fight (for Oregon) and he sent troops and persuaded Congress to declare war on Mexico

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James K. Polk

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example of a government policy that increased westward expansion - it promised essentially free land to settlers who would live on and improve the land for 5 years

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Homestead Act

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Example of a policy passed by the gov't that led to increased westward migration - it connected East to West and significantly decreased time and expense to get to the west

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Transcontinental Railroad

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This treaty ended Mexican-American War

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

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Part of a funding bill for the Mexican-American War and passed by the House but not the Senate; it would have made it so that slavery was not allowed in any territory won from the Mexican War

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Wilmot Proviso

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This animal was central to the lives of the Native American tribes of the Great Plains, providing food/shelter/clothing/daily necessities of life

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Buffalo

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The Mormon church emerged as part of this larger religious movement during the antebellum period: Temperance movement, 2nd Great Awakening, Abolitionism, Hudson River School.

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2nd Great Awakening

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Why did the Mormons leave New York and eventually settle in Utah?

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They were seeking refuge from religious persecution.

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What country did Texas declare independence from in 1835?

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Mexico