Manifest Destiny

• Manifest Destiny 


  Belief the US was destined by God to spread it's "empire of liberty" across North Am. Served as a justification for mid-century expansion
• John O. Sullivan 


  Am. editor invented the saying manifest destiny to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregan country to the US
• Aroostook War


  Clashes between Am. and Canadian lumberjacks in the disputed territory of northern Maine resolved when a boundary was set
• John Tyler


  10th US president after being a tenth vice president in 1841
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty


  August 9, 1842 resolved border issues between US and British North Am. colonies signed under John Tylers presidency resolved the aroostook war
• Joint resolution


  legality measure by senate and the house of representatives and presented to president to become law like the Texas annexation
• Quebec Halifax road


  used by the British as an overland communication link between Britain etc. When St. Lawrence river was frozen
• The Caroline


  Dispute between US and Britain after Britain set fire to an Am. steamer carrying supplies for Canada
• The Creole


  Am. ship captured by VA slaves sought asylum in the Bahamas raising southern planters fear that the British west indies would be a safe haven for runaway slaves
• Election of 1844


  Democrat James k Polk defeats whig candidate Henry Clay