Who was the hero of Buena Vista?

1. Who was the hero of Buena Vista? • Wwh • Who was Old Fuss and Feathers? • Why was Lincoln called “spotty”? • What treaty ended the war? • What two Civil War generals gained valuable experience in the war?

4. General Winfield Scott in Mexico City

11. A political cartoon concerning the monetary proposal for peace between President Polk and General Paredes of Mexico during the Mexican American War. Polk and secretary of the treasury Robert J. Walker fire "Secret Service Money, $2,000,000" across the Rio Grande from the "U.S.A. Peacemaker" cannon. The coins fill the large money bag, "Mexican Sub Treasury," held by the wide-eyed Paredes. King Luis Phillippe of France and Queen Victoria witness the scene. The suspicious Louis Phillippe fears the expansionist "Yankees" and exclaims, "I shall send a fleet of observation to the Gulf at once!" Victoria begrudges the United States' possession of California and offers to act as mediator to "Friend Polk." Polk declines the offer, sneers about foreign involvement, and asks for more "ammunition" from Walker. Walker, kneeling by the filled "U.S. Treasury" chest, gleefully complies and boasts about the infinite bounty from his "free trade measures and sub-treasury system." "Mediation and Pacification," lithograph by H. R. Robinson [Edward Williams Clay, signed on stone], 26.8 x 39.6 cm (New York, 1850). Courtesy of the American Political Cartoon Collection at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.

14. The Modern Gilpins. A parody of Democratic politics in the months preceding the party's 1848 national convention. The artist ridicules specifically the rivalry within the party between Free Soil or anti-slavery interests, which upheld the Wilmot Proviso, and regular, conservative Democrats or Hunkers." "The Gilpins" are regular Democrats Lewis Cass, Thomas Hart Benton, and Levi Woodbury, who ride a giant sow down "Salt River Lane" away from the "Head Quarters of the Northern Democracy." ("Salt River" is a symbol of political doom.)

16. Congressional Scales, a true balance. Lithograph, 1850. • The cartoon satirized President Zachary Taylor's attempts to balance Southern and Northern interests on the question of slavery in 1850. According to the Library of Congress commentary: Taylor stands atop a pair of scales, with a weight in each hand; the weight on the left reads "Wilmot Proviso" and the one on the right "Southern Rights." Below, the scales are evenly balanced, with several members of Congress, including Henry Clay in the tray on the left, and others, among them Lewis Cass and John Calhoun, on the right. Taylor says, "Who said I would not make a "NO PARTY" President? I defy you to show any party action here." One legislator on the left sings, "How much do you weigh? Eight dollars a day. Whack fol de rol!" Another states, "My patience is as inexhaustible as the public treasury." A congressman on the right says, "We can wait as long as they can." On the ground, at right, John Bull observes, "That's like what we calls in old Hingland, a glass of 'alf and 'alf." • Published by N. Currier. Library of Congress.