In what year did John O'Sullivan coin the phrase Manifest Destiny?
John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
thought that it was the easiest way to become president.
could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson.
was forced to resign from the Senate.
believed in its pro-bank, pro-protective tariff, and pro-internal improvements position.
believed it better represented Virginia's interests.
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to
have him instead of President William Henry Harrison actually run the executive branch.
win northern votes.
attract the vote of the states' rightists.
reward him for his strong support of the Whig party platform.
respond to the Democrats' expansionist appeal.
All of the following happened after President John Tyler's veto of a bill to establish a new Bank of the United States except
he was expelled from the Whig party.
all but one member of his cabinet resigned.
an attempt was made in the House of Representatives to impeach him.
Tyler also vetoed a Whig-sponsored high-tariff bill.
he sent legislation to Congress for the creation of a National Bank.
The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his policies was
During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain
the United States stayed neutral in word and action.
the United States imprisoned several American violators of neutrality.
America was unlawfully invaded by the British.
Canada warned the United States to stay out of the conflict.
the U.S. government plotted to annex Canada.
Relations between Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century could be characterized as
harmonious at the diplomatic level but full of popular resentments on both sides.
generally peaceful, with occasional periods of tension.
marked by growing American economic supremacy.
constantly on the brink of war.
generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution.
As a result of the panic of 1837
the U. S. established restrictions on foreign loans.
Britain lent money to America, its close ally.
anti-British passions cooled in America.
the Democrats led America into war for more territory.
several states defaulted on their debts to Britain.
The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved
by the Third War for American Independence.
by a compromise that gave each side some territory.
when America was given all of the territory in question.
by the Caroline incident.
by admitting Maine into the Union and New Brunswick into Canada.
The Aroostook War was
a short-lived insurrection in British Canada.
a battle between Native Americans and settlers in northern Maine.
a full-scale war between Britain and the United States.
a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada
a dispute over fishing rights between Britain and the United States.
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, and (D) Aroostook War.
All of the following were reasons why Britain was intensely interested in an independent Texas except
such a republic would check the southward surge of the American colossus, who posed a threat to nearby British possessions in the New World.
clashes between Texas and America would create a smoke-screen diversion behind which foreign powers could move into the Americas and challenge the Monroe Doctrine.
British merchants believed that an independent Texas could be an important free-trade area, to offset the tariff-walled United States.
Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants.
the alliance would give abolitionists the opportunity to free slaves in Texas and inflame nearby slaves in the South.
Some people in Britain hoped for a British alliance with Texas because
the alliance would help to support the Monroe Doctrine.
this area would provide an excellent base from which to attack the United States.
Mexican efforts to attack the United States would be stopped.
Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants.
the alliance would give abolitionists the opportunity to free slaves in Texas.
One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
could involve the country in a series of ruinous wars in America and Europe.
might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
was not supported by the people of Texas.
offered little political or economic value to America.
would lead to tensions and possible war with the British.