APUSH UNIT 5

Front

_ _ is the belief that Americans had a god-given right to expand throughout the entire US (atlantic -> pacific)

Back

Manifest Destiny

Front

Sam Houston rebelled against Mexican rule and claimed _ as an independent republic.

Back

Texas

Front

The mexicans won the battle at the _ against the texans but texans made a strong stand against mexico- crying "remember the _"

Back

Alamo

Front

President _ believed that most Americans wanted to annex Texas so he admitted Texas into the Union in 1845.

Back

Polk

Front

President Polk sent General Zachary Taylor and troops to be stationed at the Rio Grande, to intimidate Mexico and trick them into firing. They did and Polk declared the _-_ war in 1846.

Back

Mexican American

Front

The _ Compromise promised the Southern economy + rights (to own slaves) would be protected

Back

Missouri

Front

The _ _ movement was made of Whigs and Northern Democrats and wanted new land to be anti-slavery. (only because west was for whites)

Back

Free Soil

Front

The belief in __ meant that it was up to citizens in each state to allow slavery/ban it.

Back

popular sovereignty

Front

What party was formed as a nativist response to new immigrants?

Back

Know Nothing

Front

What book (written by Harriet Beecher Stowe) depicted the horrors of slavery and inspired the growing abolitionist movement in the North?

Back

Uncle Tom's Cabin