1. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 1 CHAPTER 13 IMMIGRATION, EXPANSION, AND SECTIONAL CONFLICT, 1840–1848

2. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 2 Newcomers and Natives Expectations and Realities The Germans The Irish Anti-Catholicism, Nativism, and Labor Protest Immigrant Politics

3. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 3 Trails to the West, 1840

4. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 4 The West and Beyond The Far West Far Western Trade The American Settlement of Texas to 1835 The Texas Revolution, 1836 American Settlements in California, New Mexico, and Oregon The Overland Trails

5. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 5 Major Battles in the Texas Revolution, 1835–1836

6. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 6 The Politics of Expansion, 1840–1846 The Whig Ascendancy Tyler and the Annexation of Texas

7. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 7 The Election of 1844 Manifest Destiny, 1845 Polk and Oregon

8. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 8 Oregon Boundary Dispute

9. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 9 The Mexican-American War and Its Aftermath, 1846–1848 The Origins of the Mexican-American War The Mexican-American War

10. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.13 | 10 Major Battles of the Mexican-American War The War’s Effects on Sectional Conflict The Wilmot Proviso The Election of 1848 The California Gold Rush