American History Chapter 9

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Across
  1. 2. The United States and Britain signed the Oregon Treaty in June 1846, setting the northern boundary of what is now the state of ___________
  2. 6. John Tyler, Harrison's vice president and successor, was expelled by the Whig Party after vetoing Henry Clay's bill authorizing a new _________ bank
  3. 7. Democratic leader John O'Sullivan coined the term “_________ ________”, claiming that it was the God-ordained right of the US to expand its territory to the Pacific
  4. 8. Tens of thousands of people, known as 49ers, went to California to seek their fortune. This was known as the California Gold ______ of 1849
  5. 9. William Henry Harrison died from ____________ one month after taking office, becoming the first president to die in office
  6. 10. After president Zachary Taylor died in office, Senator Stephen _________ of Illinois proposed the Compromise of 1850
  7. 13. In the 1840s, thousands of settlers took the six-month journey on the “________ ______,” a 2,000-mile system of trails connecting St. Louis, Missouri to the Oregon Country via the Missouri River
Down
  1. 1. In 1821, Spain acknowledged Mexican _____________, and Anglo settlers began pouring into Texas
  2. 3. When the US won the Mexican War, Polk’s administration convinced Mexico to sign the 1848 Treaty of ____________ Hidalgo, ceding about one-third of Mexico’s land mass to the US
  3. 4. Texians lost at the Battle of the Alamo in February 1836, but defeated the Mexican Army and __________ Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836
  4. 5. As white settlement moved through the western frontier, it brought more cycles of disease, conflict, and displacement among ________ Americans
  5. 11. The “Free-Soil” movement in northern politics expressed a desire to preserve new territories for free white laborers, but did not necessarily oppose _________ where it already existed in the South
  6. 12. President Polk declared that the southern border of Texas was the Rio Grande (when, in, fact, it was the more northerly Nueces River), so when Mexican forces crossed the Rio Grande, _____ declared war on Mexico
  7. 14. War with Mexico started in 1835 with a clash between the authoritarian rule of Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and recent American immigrants to _______, many of whom wanted to maintain their freedom to own slaves