Immigration, Expansion and Sectional Conflict,
Immigration to the USA Ireland German States Ethnic Neighborhoods
Nativism Anti-Immigration Groups Anti-Catholic protests United Order of Americans The Know Nothing Party
Homesteads Support for the Democrats The “common man”
Mexico Stephen Austin Colonization Laws ( ) Mexican Citizenship
Benjamin Edwards Closing the border Santa Anna Austin goes to jail
The Texas Militia Sam Houston San Antonio The Alamo William Travis
San Jacinto April 1836 Santa Anna Texas Independence Sam Houston
The election of 1840 William Henry Harrison John Tyler Tyler’s view on Texas John C. Calhoun
The Election of 1844 Henry Clay The Liberty Party James K. Polk
Manifest Destiny John Louis Sullivan California and Oregon Penny Press Immigrants
Oregon Britain American Missionaries James K. Polk “Fifty-four forty or fight” Vancouver
John Tyler James K. Polk The Rio Grande The Nueces River
John Slidell California November 1845 Jose Joaquin Herrera Zachary Taylor May 1846
The three prong strategy Crossing the Rio Grande Capturing Santa Fe Take California Capture Mexico City
California John C. Fremont June 1846 The Bear Flag Republic
Mexico City September 1847 February 1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Polk Administration Slavery in the west The Wilmot Proviso David Wilmot John C. Calhoun
The Election of 1848 Zachary Taylor Lewis Cass Popular Sovereignty
Democrats Barnburners “Conscience” Whigs Liberty Party Abolitionists The Free Soil Party Martin Van Buren Taylor wins the election
Gold 49ers The Compromise of 1850 The Fugitive Slave Law
The Transcontinental Railroad James Gadsden The Gadsden Purchase Sectionalism