Manifest Destiny: Anxiety Over Slavery Heads West

1. What did President Tyler do that lost his support from the Whig Party? What event almost precipitated another war with England? How were tensions over Canadian boundary disputes resolved?
2. What were some of the foreign intrigues that beset the Lone Star Republic during its brief period of independence? What were the partisan political maneuvers that led to the annexation of Texas?
3. How did American territorial ambitions figure in the campaign of 1844? What was James Polk's four-point program?
4. What events triggered the Mexican War? Americans? How was the war won? Provisions' of the peace treaty?
5. What was the significance of the Wilmot Proviso?