APUSH Period 5

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Added to the American Union as the 28th state, and a slave state, in 1845. A dispute over the northern border of Mexico would contribute towards the Mexican-American War in 1846.

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Texas Annexation

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Land ceded by Mexico to the United States following the Mexican-American War. The territory included the future states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

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Mexican Cession

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Democratic campaign slogan in the presidential election of 1844, urging that the northern border of Oregon be fixed at 54 40' north latitude.

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"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"

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11th President of the United States he was a strong advocate of "Manifest Destiny" adding more than a million square miles of western lands to the United States during his presidency.

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James K Polk

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Complex compromise devised by Senator Henry Clay admitting California as a free state, included a stronger fugitive slave law, and delayed the determination of slave state for the New Mexico and Utah territories.

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Compromise of 1850

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Deal made by Republican and Democratic leaders following the presidential election between Hayes (R), who had lost the popular vote, and Tilden (D). Hayes was given the election in exchange for removing federal troops from southern enforcement bringing an end to Reconstruction.

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Compromise of 1877

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Law sponsored by Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas allowing popular sovereignty in the territories, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and leading to violence in the Kansas.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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Proposal to prohibit slavery in land acquired from the Mexican Cession. It passed the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate.

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Wilmot Proviso

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Elected the 16th President of the United States in 1860. His election led to secession of southern states. Delivered the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863.

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Abraham Lincoln

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Served as U.S. Secretary of War in the Pierce Administration and senator from Mississippi. He resigned from the Senate when Mississippi seceded from the Union, and was selected the president of the Confederacy.

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Jefferson Davis