APUSH 5.6 (2)

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Added to the American Union as the 28th state, and a slave state, in 1845. A dispute over the northern border of Mexico would contribute towards the Mexican-American War in 1846.

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Texas Annexation

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Land ceded by Mexico to the United States following the Mexican-American War. The territory included the future states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

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Mexican Cession

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11th President of the United States he was a strong advocate of "Manifest Destiny" adding more than a million square miles of western lands to the United States during his presidency.

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James K Polk

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Complex compromise devised by Senator Henry Clay admitting California as a free state, included a stronger fugitive slave law, and delayed the determination of slave state for the New Mexico and Utah territories.

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Compromise of 1850

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Proposal to prohibit slavery in land acquired from the Mexican Cession. It passed the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate.

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Wilmot Proviso

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Henry Clay's proposed "American System" provided

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high protective tariffs and federal spending for internal improvements

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In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings limited the extent of

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states' rights

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The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for

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equal rights, including the right to vote

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Two major sources of European immigrants to America in the 1840's and 1850's were: France and Italy, Germany and France, Germany and Ireland, Ireland and Norway

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Germany and Ireland

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The immediate cause of the Mexican War was: American refusal to pay Mexican claims for damage to its citizens, Mexican refusal to sell California and a dispute over the Texas boundary, Mexican support for the antislavery movement in Texas, American determination to establish democracy in northern Mexico.

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Mexican refusal to sell California and a dispute over the Texas boundary