Monroe Unit 4

Front

1. What was the impact of James K. Polk’s presidency?

Back

Territorial Expansion, Admission of Texas and Oregon as states, addition of the Mexican Cession following the Mexican American War

Front

1. "And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”  --John L. O'Sullivan, New York Morning News, 1845.

According to O’Sullivan, why is it important for the United States to expand?

Back

Its is important to expand in order to spread democracy as well as liberty across the continent 

Front

1. What war did the annexation of Texas start?

Back

Mexican American War

Front

1. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo? 

Back

1. Texas’ southern border would be the Rio Grande

2. U.S. would gain the Mexican Cession (CA, AZ, NM, NV, UT, CO)

3. U.S. would pay mexico $15 Million

Front

1. Describe the Missouri Compromise.

Back

Slavery would be banned above the 36-30 Line and allowed below it

Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state 

Front

1. Define Manifest Destiny.

Back

The United States’ god given right to expand west. 

THe idea that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans 

Front

1. Describe the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its impact in the state of Kansas.

Back

The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed both territories to vote on whether or not they would allow slavery through Popular-Sovereignty. This led to Bleeding Kansas when pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups fought a mini war to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in Kansas

Front

1. How was the disagreement between Great Britain and the United States over the Oregon Territory settled?

Back

Peacefully, both sides negotiated to split the territory in two at the 49th parallel

Front

1. What was the goal of John Brown?

Back

To start a slave rebellion by seizing weapons at Harpers Ferry 

Front

1. List three provisions of the Compromise of 1850.

Back

1. California be admitted as a free state

2. Stronger Fugitive Slave Act

3. Slave trade would be abolished in D.C.

Also, New Mexico would use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery and Texas ceding some of its land for $10 million