下面为大家整理的是关于在第8到第13任美国总统任期内容，美国发生的史实的SAT2美国历史知识点的介绍，详细，而且是根据总统的任职年表进行列举的，很容易让人记忆。大家可以在备考的时候进行适当的整理和借鉴。

　　Martin Van Buren (1836-1840) (Democrats)

　　--appointed by Jackson

　　Panic of 1837: the consequence of Bank War & disasters

　　  Independent Treasury: national financial assets separated from market

　　Texas Republic: won independence from Mexico in 1836; recognized by US later

　　Aroostook War: with Britain to fix the Maine border

　　Gag Resolution: Southerners’ drive that required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate; Quincy Adams fought 8 years to repeal it

　　Amistad slave revolt: rebelling aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad, but later driven ashore to Long Island; Quincy Adams secured their freedom in front of Supreme Court with a moving speech

　　William Henry Harrison (1840) dead after 4 weeks

　　John Tyler (1841-1844) (Whigs…technically)

　　--president without a party; technically Whigs, but not so Whigs

　　Tariff of 1842: raise back to pre-1833 tariff

　　Webster-Ashburton Treaty: after Aroostook War, fixing borders and opposing slavery together

　　James Polk (1844-1848) (Democratic-Republican)

　　--slogan: Manifest Destiny (“American democracy all over the hemisphere”); Clay defeated by a margin of a small Liberty Party’s absorbed votes

　　Texas annexation

　　Walker Tariff: lower than Whigs’

　　Oregon Dispute: first wanted 54N (part of Polk’s slogan), but eventually 49N

　　Mexican war

　　California Bear Flag Republic: the rebelled nation supported by American officers and John Fremont

　　Battle of Buena Vista: General Zachary Taylor was made hero

　　Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo: Mexico recognized Texas annexation & ceded California to US

　　Wilmot Proviso: amendment that no slavery exists from former Mexico regions; twice passed in House but never Senate

　　Zachary Taylor (1848-1850d) (Whigs)

　　California Gold Rush: short after California became America’s

　　Free Soil Party: an antislavery third party arguing that slavery limit opportunity for free labor

　　Millard Fillmore (1850-1852)

　　Underground Railroad: help black slaves to escape

　　Compromise of 1850

　　  --proposed by Henry Clay (Whig leader), John Calhoun (“Great Nulifier”, promoter of slavery), Daniel Webster; aided by Fillmore while Taylor opposed to it

　　  --North: California free, District of Columbia free

　　--South: Mexican cession territories decided by popular sovereignty, $10mil for Texas, stricter fugitive-slave law

　　Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: high penalty for anyone who aid slaves and demand all officers to help getting runaways back; strengthened antislavery cause

　　以上就是关于SAT2美国历史的相关介绍，非常详细，包括了5任总统任期内的历史，甚至还包括了墨西哥战争。大家可以在备考SAT2美国历史考试的时候根据自己的实际情况针对不同史实的掌握情况进行更加有深度的理解和记忆。