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- democrats: states' rights, strict constructionists, laissez-faire economics, territorial expansion, empowering slave states, coalition
- whigs: american system politics, loose constructionists, social reforms, mixed views on enslavement, coalition
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- surprise american attack on mexican army, resulting in american victory
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- american settlements in mexican province of texas
- empresarios system that required settlers to get permission to settle, practice catholicism, and learn spanish
- empresarios didn't follow rules and rebelled against mexican government
- the alamo and battle of san jacinto
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- texas defenders of the fort alamo killed in fight against Mexican army
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- polk (D): not expected to win, jacksonian democrat, expansionist, enslaver, lower tariffs, acquire california, manifest destiny
- clay (R): against texas annexation
- polk won
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- U.S. sends american forces past mexican border and claims mexican army attacked them
- lincoln exposed polk's lie
- david wilmot and the wilmot proviso
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- taylor: unionism
- taylor won election and died right after
- fillmore: president after taylor died, moderate on abolition, compromise of 1850
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- ended mexican-american war
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- gold found on sutter's mill, increasing migration, settlement, and enslavement in california
- westward expansion
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- california admitted as free state, but many still practiced enslavement
- fugitive slave act
- jury gets paid more for supporting the White individual in court, rather than the Black individual
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- the negotiated purchase of mexican territory (no enslavement)
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- pierce (D): doughface northerner who supports southern enslavement, jacksonian democrat, gadsden purchase, ostend manifesto
- scott (R): against enslavement
- pierce won
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- proposal to buy Cuba for $120 million or by force
- did not go through
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- William Walker invaded nicaragua because he thought the U.S. wasn't expanding fast enough
- appointed himself as president of nicaragua