Exam 13: Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery 1845-1860

The Mexican War's first phase was carried out by which of the following?

Manifest Destiny was universally popular throughout the United States.

The Ostend Manifesto had to do with which of the following?

In the Mexican War,

Henry Clay remained steadfastly opposed to the annexation of Texas throughout the presidential campaign of 1844.

In 1850, southerners were most upset by the

Chinese men migrated to ____________________.

The Free Soil Party candidate for President in 1848 was ____________________.

The newspaper man who urged Americans to "Go West young man" was ____________________.

President William Henry Harrison caught pneumonia on his inauguration day and died one month later.

____________________ raised the flag of an independent California after capturing Sonoma.

The president who completed the annexation of Texas to the United States was ____________________.

The Wilmot Proviso

Families were the predominant westward migrants on the overland trails.

The Mexican commander who granted Texas independence from Mexico was

Explore the movement for, and the eventual conclusion of, the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845.

The Senator whose speech advocating for the Compromise of 1850 alienated his antislavery supporters was ____________________.

By 1821, 80,000 Mexicans lived in New Mexico and California.

The religious prophet and founder of the Mormons was

By the 1830s, many New Mexico and California residents were more concerned with keeping American settlers out of the region than with encouraging American traders to come to the area.