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| Sam Houston | March 1836 this guy led the US settlers in revolt against Spain. |
| ALAMO | 1836ish. Mexican army was led by Santa Anna and they captured Goliad and attacked this place. |
| Battle of San Jacinto River | 1836ish. Sam Houston's army captured general Anna and forced him to sign a treaty that recognized Texas' independence and granted new republic all territory north of Rio Grande. However, Mexico denied the treaty. |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 1842 this cleared up the disputed territory split between maine and British Canada. |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | 1819 Spain gave oregon to US |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 1848 Mexican cession. mexico would recognize rio grande as southern border of texas. us would get california and new mexico and pay $15 million for them. |
| Wilmot Proviso | 1846 forbid slavery in any territory acquired. this bill was not passed |
| Ostend Manifesto | 1852 US wanted to purchase Cuba. Spain refused to cell cuba. This secret document about negotiations between Spain and US about buying Cuba was leaked to the press in the US and provoked an angry reaction from antislavery members of congress. president pierce was forced to drop the scheme. |
| Clayton-Bulwer Treaty | 1850 This agreement said that US and Britain would not try to get exclusive control of canal. |
| Gadsden Purchase | 1853 Railroad land. mexico sold it to us through this. |
| Free-Soil Party | This party sought to keep the west a land of opportunity for whites only so that the white majority would not have to compete with the labor of slaves or free blacks. They wanted to prevent the spread of slavery but not for the benefit of the blacks. |
| Compromise of 1850 | 1850 admitted california as a free state. divided the mexian cession to be decided about the slavery issue by majority vote. ban slave trade in D.C. but permit white to hold slaves as before. Adopt a new Fugitive slave law and enforce it rigorously. it added to the north's political power. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 renewed sectional controversy. repealed the missouri compromise. allowed settlers to move into territories and decide whether the areas should be free or slave states. this bill was originally made by senator stephen a. douglas who wanted to promote western settlement and railroads. he needed the south's approval so made a bill with south idealisms |
| Know-Nothing Party | 1850s nativist hostility. |
| Republican Party | 1854 this party was formed as a reaction to kansas-nebraska act. called for the reapeal of the act and the fugitive slave law. they wanted to halt expansion of slavery, free homesteads, probusiness, protective tariff. |
| New England Emigrant Aid Company | 1855 paid for transportation of antislavery settlers to kansas. "bleeding kansas". northern abolitionists and free-soilers made this group. it paid for transportation of antislavery settlers to kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | 1856ish. Fighting broke out between the proslavery and the antislavery groups in Kansas |
| Sumner-Brooks incident | 1856 Sumner verbally attacked the democratic administration. Congressman brooks beat sumner over the head with a cane. this was a sign of growing passions on both sides. |
