American History Honors
Study Guide for Unit 5 Test: Manifest Destiny & Antebellum
Mr. Peters

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Events, people and terms you should know
Gold Rush (pg.255)
The Temperance Movement (pg.312)
An Antislavery Movement Arises (pg.318-319)
Fredrick Douglas (pg.320-321)
The Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman (pg.322-323)
Suffrage (pg.330)
Rising Immigration, Discrimination (pg.332-333)
North-South Tensions (pg.334-335)
Union, Historians and the Civil War, The Case against Slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin (pg.346-347)
Impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Differences between the North and South (pg.348-349)
Manifest Destiny, Annexation of Texas (pg.351)
War with Mexico, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Gadsden Purchase (pg.352-353)
The Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act (pg.356-357)
Decline of the Whigs, The Kansas-Nebraska Act (pg.359-360)
The Creation of the Republic Party of Today (pg.361)
Violence Erupts, Dred Scott Decision (pg.363-364)
The Lower South Secedes (pg.370)

# 8 Martin Van Buren
* Democratic, 1 term, "Old Kinderhook"
* Financial panic of 1837 and depression of 1837-1840 doomed my presidency.
* The term "O.K." is credited to Van Buren who was raised in Kinderhook, New York. Van Buren became known as "Old Kinderhook." Soon people were using the term O.K. referring to Van Buren and the word "okay" was derived.

# 9 William Henry Harrison
* Whig, 1 month, "Tippecanoe"
* Campaign slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too". He served the shortest presidency

#10 John Tyler
* Whig, 1 term (minus 1 month)
* First vice president to assume office when the president died while in office.
* Presidents Tyler and Fillmore known by the nickname "His Accidency"
* He was the president with the most children-he had 15.
* The tradition of playing "Hail to the Chief" whenever a president appeared at a state function was started by his second wife.

# 11 James K. Polk
* Democratic, 1 term, "Young Hickory"
* The Mexican-American War occurred during his presidency
* President Polk replaced Zachary Taylor with Winfield Scott as commander of the forces in Mexico because he saw Taylor as a potential rival in the 1848 election. However, Polk decided later not to run and uphold his campaign promise of only one term
* Fulfilled all his campaign promises. Acquired California from MEX., settled the Oregon dispute, lowered tariffs, established a sub-treasury, & retired from office after 1 term.

#12 Zachary Taylor
* Whig, 1 term (16 months), "Old Rough and Ready"
* Served one year and four months of his term before he died of cholera.
* He received his nomination for presidency late because he refused all postage due correspondences.

# 13 Millard Fillmore
* Whig, 1 term minus 16 months
* Last WHIG president. He ordered rigorous enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
* Presidents Tyler and Fillmore known by the nickname "His Accidency"

#14 Franklin Pierce
* Democratic, 1 term
* Two months before he took office, he saw his eleven-year-old son killed in a train wrecked.

# 15 James Buchanan
* Democratic, 1 term, first and only bachelor president
* Upon the election of his successor, Buchanan sent Lincoln a note saying, "My dear sir, if you are as happy on entering the White House as I on leaving, you are a happy man indeed."

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