AP US Chapter 18-20
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- John Tyler
- elected vice president and became the 10th president when Harrison died
- John Slidell
- an American politician, lawyer and businessman
- Winfield Scott
- general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican war
- Zachary Taylor
- twelfth president who died in office in 1850
- Nicholas P. Trist
- private secretary to Andrew Jackson and was sent to negotiate with the Mexicans
- James K. Polk
- 11th president whose expansionalism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest
- Stephen W. Kearney
- had a significant role in the Mexican War and in the conquest of California
- David Wilmot
- political figure who was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico in the war
- Robert Gray
- American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbus River
- John C. Fremont
- explorer who mapped much of the American west and northwest
- Joint Resolution
- a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the Chief Executive
- Manifest Destiny
- a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable; as if granted by God
- Fiscal Bank
- established a new bank of the United States
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- settled the dispute over the location of the Maine-New Brunswick border between the United States and Canada
- "Spot" Resolutions
- offered in the House on December 22, 1847 by Abraham Lincoln
- Tariff of 1842
- a protectionist tariff schedule adopted in the states to reverse the effects of the Compromised Tariff of 1833
- "Conscience Whigs"
- a faction of the Whig Party in Massachusetts noted for their moral opposition to slavery
- Hudson's Bay Company
- granted a royal charter for trade in North America and began explorations of Arctic areas
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- agreement that ended the Mexican-American War
- Liberty Party
- a former political party that formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery and merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848
- Walker Tariff
- Democratic bill that reversed the high rates of tariffs imposed by the Whig-Backed "Black Tariff" of 1842
- Wilmot Proviso
- a proposed amendment to a military appropriation bill of 1846