People

• Adams, John Quincy
• Calhoun, John C.
• Choate, Rufus
• Clay, Henry
• Owen, Robert Dale
• Polk, James K.
• Preston, William C.
• Rush, Richard
• Smithson, James
• Tappan, Benjamin

Documents

• Smithson's Will
• Request for Declaration of Mexican War
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• First Bill
• Second Bill
• Third Bill
• Fourth Bill
• Fifth Bill
• Sixth Bill
• Seventh Bill
• Eighth Bill
• Smithsonian Law

Contextual Topics

• Mexican War
• Mormon Exodus
• National Institute
• Population and Immigration
• Territorial Concerns
• U.S. Patent Office
• Washington D.C. in 1846