Chapter 13 - The Impending Crisis

Henry Clay

________ and other prominent politicians feared, correctly as it turned out, that territorial expansion would reopen the painful controversy over slavery and threaten the stability of the Union.

Henry David Thoreau

________ was so horrified by the war that he refused to pay taxes (which he said financed the conflict) and spent time in jail.

John Tyler

________ accomplished the first of Polks goals for him.

presidential campaign

The ________ of 1848 dampened the controversy for a time as both Democrats and Whigs tried to avoid the slavery question.

Texans

________ claimed the Rio Grande as their western and southern border, a claim that would have added much of what is now New Mexico to Texas.

Texas

The migrations into ________ and Oregon were part of a larger movement that took hundreds of thousands of white and black Americans into the far western regions of the continent between 1840 and 1860.

Abraham Lincoln

________ criticized the war on the grounds that it gave the president too much power.

Battle of San Jacinto

April 23, 1836, at the ________ (near the present- day city of Houston), he defeated the Mexican army and took Santa Anna prisoner.

Mexico

In the mid- 1830s, instability in ________ drove General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to seize power as a dictator and impose a new, more autocratic regime on the nation and its territories.

Manifest Destiny

________ reflected both the burgeoning pride that characterized American nationalism in the mid- nineteenth century and the idealistic vision of social perfection that fueled so much of the reform energy of the time.

Polk

In August 1846, while the Mexican War was still in progress, ________ asked Congress to appropriate $ 2 million for purchasing peace with Mexico.

Trist

On February 2, 1848, ________ reached an agreement with the new Mexican government on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which Mexico agreed to cede California and New Mexico to the United States and acknowledge the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas.