1. Immigration, Expansion and Sectional Conflict, 1840-1848

2.  Immigration to the USA  Ireland  German States  Ethnic Neighborhoods

3.  Nativism  Anti-Immigration Groups  Anti-Catholic protests  United Order of Americans  The Know Nothing Party

4.  Homesteads  Support for the Democrats  The “common man”

5.  Mexico  Stephen Austin  Colonization Laws (1823-1825)  Mexican Citizenship

6.  Benjamin Edwards  Closing the border  Santa Anna  Austin goes to jail

7.  The Texas Militia  Sam Houston  San Antonio  The Alamo  William Travis

8.  San Jacinto  April 1836  Santa Anna  Texas Independence  Sam Houston

9.  The election of 1840  William Henry Harrison  John Tyler  Tyler’s view on Texas  John C. Calhoun

10.  The Election of 1844  Henry Clay  The Liberty Party  James K. Polk

11.  Manifest Destiny  John Louis Sullivan  California and Oregon  Penny Press  Immigrants

12.  Oregon  Britain  American Missionaries  James K. Polk  “Fifty-four forty or fight”  Vancouver

13.  John Tyler  James K. Polk  The Rio Grande  The Nueces River

14.  John Slidell  California  November 1845  Jose Joaquin Herrera  Zachary Taylor  May 1846

15.  The three prong strategy  Crossing the Rio Grande  Capturing Santa Fe  Take California  Capture Mexico City

16.  California  John C. Fremont  June 1846  The Bear Flag Republic

17.  Mexico City  September 1847  February 1848  The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

18.  The Polk Administration  Slavery in the west  The Wilmot Proviso  David Wilmot  John C. Calhoun

19.  The Election of 1848  Zachary Taylor  Lewis Cass  Popular Sovereignty

20.  Democrats  Barnburners  “Conscience” Whigs  Liberty Party Abolitionists  The Free Soil Party  Martin Van Buren  Taylor wins the election

21.  Gold  49ers  The Compromise of 1850  The Fugitive Slave Law

22.  The Transcontinental Railroad  James Gadsden  The Gadsden Purchase  Sectionalism