Period 5 to Compromise of 1850

The belief that the United States had a divine mission to control North America.

• Manifest Destiny

• Wilmot Proviso

• Ostend Manifesto

• American exceptionalism

Settled the boundary between Maine and Canada and mostly fixed the northern border at the 49th parallel.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

• Webster-Ashburton Treaty

• Compromise of 1850

James K. Polk's expansionist slogan concerning Oregon, which helped him get elected in 1844.

• Manifest Destiny

• American exceptionalism

• Free Soil

• Fifty Four Forty or Fight

California, Colorado, Nevada, and the Dakotas all experienced gold or silver rushes during the mid-19th century.

• True

• False

The Kanagawa Treaty, which opened 2 Japanese ports for US ships to refuel and for limited trade was accomplished by this naval leader.

• John Tyler

• Matthew Perry

• Kit Carson

• David Wilmot

The Mexican-American War began because Texas claimed its southern boundary as the Nueces River.

• True

• False

This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Ostend Manifesto

This was meant to appease the South after California was admitted as a free state by the Compromise of 1850.

• Nevada entered the Union as a slave state.

• Cotton exports were guaranteed to be the most valuable export commodity

• Slavery was extended throughout the rest of the Mexican Cession

• A strict, new Fugitive Slave Law was passed by Congress.

Michigan Democratic Senator Lewis Cass's proposal that voters would decide whether or not slavery existed in new western territories and states.

• popular sovereignty

• manifest destiny

• Wilmot Proviso

• Ostend Manifesto

Match the following names with the correct descriptions.

• Sam Houston

• California trailblazer and the first Republican candidate for the presidency.

• Stephen F. Austin

• Hero of the Texas War for Independence and first governor of Texas.

• Zachary Taylor

• Accidental president who annexed Texas by joint resolution before Polk's presidency.

• John C. Fremont

• Mexican War hero who was elected in 1848 as the third Whig president.

• John Tyler

• Brought 300 families into Texas, starting a steady migration of proslavery whites.