Louisiana Purchase
The third President that did not follow the Constitution and went ahead with the purchase.
Who was Thomas Jefferson
An area of land under the rule of a specific ruler.
What is territory?
This path of forced relocation, particularly associated with the Cherokee, resulted in thousands of deaths from disease and exposure.
What is the trail of tears?
This term, coined in the 1840s, expressed the belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
In 1853, the U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land in modern-day Arizona and New Mexico, a transaction known by this name
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Which French leader agreed to sell the entire Louisiana territory to the United States to fund his European military campaigns?
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
What is expand?
The Act gave the president the power to grant unsettled lands west of this major river in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
What is the Mississippi River?
This influential newspaper editor is widely credited with first using the phrase "manifest destiny" in an 1845 article about Texas annexation.
Who was John L. O Sullivan?
Completed in 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, this engineering marvel physically linked the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who was the U.S. resident minister in Paris who worked alongside James Monroe to negotiate the unexpected purchase of all of Louisiana?
Who is Robert Livingston?
To surrender something
What is ceded?
Collectively, the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole were historically referred to by white Americans by this five-word collective term.
What are the Five Civilized Tribes?
Before becoming a U.S. state in 1845, this territory spent nine years as an independent republic.
What is Texas?
The U.S. and Mexico disputed whether this river or the Nueces River formed the true southern border of Texas, sparking war in 1846.
What is Rio Grande?
Initially, Thomas Jefferson sent envoys to France with the primary goal of purchasing only which crucial strategic port city?
What is New Orleans?
A contract between governments/states.
What is a treaty?
In the 1832 case Worcester v. Georgia, this long-serving Supreme Court Chief Justice ruled that Georgia laws had no force on Cherokee land.
Who was John Marshall?
The name of the president that coined the "Fifty-four Forty or Fight?
Who was President James K. Polk?
The treaty that was signed to resolve the issue between the United States and Mexico to prevent the second war.
What is the Treaty of La Mesillia?
Initially, Thomas Jefferson sent envoys to France with the primary goal of purchasing only which crucial strategic port city?
what is 828,000 miles?
Name of an article before it was changed to a constitution
What is Article of Confederation?
This U.S. President signed the Indian Removal Act into law on May 28, 1830
Who was Andrew Jackson?
The negotiators that resolved the dispute over the Oregon Territory
Who were James Buchanan and Sir Richard Pakenham?
"Tensions were already high because U.S failed to honor parts of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo regarding financial claims for Apache and Commanche raids into Mexico"
What are Unresolved Obligations?