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WORKSHEET CHAPTER 17
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1. Whig spoilsman: Someone of the Whig party who made clamors in order to gain the favor of the President and receive benefits in office.
2. "Tyler too" Fiscal Bank: The "Tyler too" was a slogan used to rhyme with "Old Tippecanoe" in order to gain the vote of the Southern gentry and allow William Henry Harrison to become president. Before President Harrison's term started, he contracted pneumonia and died, which led John Tyler to ascend the presidency. While in office, President Tyler was given a bill that was proposed by Henry Clay in order to make a new National Bank of the United States, called the "Fisical Bank." Despite being apart of the Whig party, President Tyler vetoed the bill and destroyed the idea of creating a new national bank under his presidency.
3. "His Accidency": A nickname given to President Tyler in order to retaliate the vetoing of the multiple bills that proposed a new national bank of the United States
4. Third War with England: "War" in which British and American writers "fought" with scathing written commentaries about the opposing country. It was fostered by lingering Anti-British feeling in America from the 2 wars and British "Travel Books" that condemned and mocked America as barbaric.
5. "Caroline": When an American steamer was attacked along the New York shore by a British force, it greatly angered the Americans. The British had invaded American soil and violated the neutrality between the nations. Washington tried to launch protests, but failed. A Canadian named McLeod was then arrested in 1840 after boasting about his part in the incident. He was arrested, but his execution would mean war, so he was set free.
6. "Creole": American-British tensions grew in 1841 when British officials in the Bahamas offered asylum to 130 Virginian slaves who had rebelled and captured this American ship, marking a fear throughout the South that their Caribbean possessions may become a haven for escaped slaves.
7. Aroostook War: A war that broke out between British and Americans because the British wanted to build a road from Halifax to Quebec, that also went through disputed territory in Maine, for defensive purposes. Both sides summoned the local militia due to ugly fights that occurred between the British and American lumberjacks in the disputed territory's woods.
8. "Texas or Disunion": This was a phrase cried out by Southern hotheads who strongly believed that the US should annex Texas, due to the big benefit the South would receive from its annexation. The Southerners cried this out to also display the seriousness of the issue of the annexation of Texas and the consequences of separation, if Texas were not annexed, hence the "disunion." Led President Tyler to believe that it was necessary to annex Texas.
9. Oregon Country: This land was claimed by both the U.S. and Britain and was held jointly under the Convention of 1818. This land was disputed between the two rivals, and Britain claimed that Oregon was theirs because they had more population--well to the North portion of the Columbia River. As Oregon fever hit the US, more and more people began to migrate to Oregon in hopes of gaining more land--this allowed the US to gain the states now known as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The disputed territory was split by the 49th parallel.
10. Oregon Trail: Americans in the Willamette Valley were seized by "Oregon Fever" in the early 1840s and hundreds traveled this two-thousand-mile trail with covered wagons, outnumbering the British there in population. This allowed America to seize more land from the British in the disputed territory of Oregon.
11. Manifest Destiny: The widespread American belief of the 1840-50s that Almighty God had "manifestly" destined the American people for a hemispheric career and spread of democratic institutions all throughout the North American continent.
