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What is John Tyler.
President from 1841-1844
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What is the 28th state
When Texas was admitted as a state in 1845, it became this number state.
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What is England and the U.S.
Who the Oregon Territory claimed by
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What is Manifest Destiny.
President Polk interpreted his election as a mandate for this
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What is Santa Anna
The dethroned Mexican dictator who eventually went on to lead Mexican troops
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What is a defensive precaution against the U.S.
Why Canada was determined to build a road westward to Quebec
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What is it would check the southward and westward expansion of America.
Why Britain was so interested in an independent Texas
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What is The "Pathway to the West"
The Oregon trail was considered this, as depicted by Albert Bierstadt's painting
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What are Texas and Oregon.
The two leading issues in the 1844 election
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What is General Winfield Scott
General that fought his way to Mexico City in 1847
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What is the Aroostook War
"war" that was fought between lumberjacks
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What is some opposed expansionism, Whigs feared Texas would promote southern "slave power," possible war with Mexico
One (good) reason some Americans opposed the annexation of Texas
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What is we populated it much more.
Why America's claims to the south of the Columbia River where substantial
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What is belief that God had destined American people to spread democracy over N. America
Definition of Manifest Destiny
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What is 1847
year General Zachary Taylor defeat Santa Anna at Buena Vista
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What is Halifax to Quebec
Canada was determined to build a road westward between these two cities
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What is they hoped it would result in the fragmentation and militarization of America.
Why France interested in an independent Texas?
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What is because it was populated by the Hudson's Bay Company
Why England's claims to the North of the Columbia River where substantial
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What is the 49th Parallel
Became the border of Canada and Oregon
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What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
treaty that gave America Texas and the land stretching west to Oregon and the ocean including California
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What is Americans obtain more land North of Maine, Americans get readjustment of Canadian border, Canada gets the Halifax-Quebec route,
Two results of the Webster-Ashburton treaty
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What is France, Holland, and Belgium
3 countries Texas created treaties with in 1839 and 1840
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What is 54° 40
Oregon stretched north of California to this line degrees
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What is lowered tariff rates- encouraged trade
and generated money for U.S.
What the Walker Tariff of 1846 did
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What is stopped the new territories from becoming slave states
The Wilmot Proviso did this
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