Lone Star State
Mexico invited Americans to come to Texas and settle for this primary reason.
To help control the Indian population.
President that pushed out the indians?
Andrew Jackson
The term used for the belief that America had a Devine right to move West.
Manifest Destiny
This 15 million dollar purchase of land opened the way for exploration in the plains and Northwest.
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson sent these two guys to explore the West, after making the Louisiana Purchase?
Lewis and Clark
This event brought three hundred thousand people to California in 1848-1849.
California Gold Rush
The harsh trip that the Indians had to endure when they were forced off their land during winter and had to march thousands of miles west?
Trail of tears
This region of the country benefitted from tariffs because they had most of the manufacturing.
Northeast
Battle in the Mexican American War, where Santa Ana surrounded a fort and killed all the Americans inside?
Alamo
Invented the telegraph.
Samuel Morse
This River became the border between Texas and Mexico.
Rio Grande
Name of the trail that took settlers to Oregon.
Oregon Trail
Another name for the Tariff of 1828?
Tariff of abominations
Belief that the country is more important than a region?
Nationalism
Love of region over love of nation is called?
Sectionalism
This region of the country opposed the American System because they believed it would hurt them, that it was just an added tax.
South
Mexico did not want to see this system in Texas.
Slavery
He killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel?
Aaron Burr
What incident caused fighting to break out, eventually leading to war.
American and Mexican soldiers were stationed in areas near the Rio Grande that were in dispute. This led to tensions and eventually a small battle.
This country shared control of Oregon with the U.S.
Great Britain
Name two states that were part of the Mexican Cession?
California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
What were the two biggest gains for America when they bought the Louisiana Purchase?
Doubled the size of the country and gave America control of the Mississippi River.
This invention increased slavery in the U.S.?
Cotton Gin
This person was behind the National Bank, which the North supportted.
Alexander Hamilton
Give me 2 of the 3 reasons why the U.S. did not immediately accept Texas as a state.
1.) Did not want to go to war with Mexico, 2.) Texas had huge debt 3.) It was a slave state, how would they be brought into the U.S.
Invented the Steam Boat and engine.
Robert Fulton
Who was the President of Mexico during the Mexican American War
Santa Ana
This would eventually lead to the end of wagon trains and the Oregon Trail.
Railroads/ Trans-American Railroad
This purchase gave America the Southern part of modern day Arizona and New Mexico, and borders Mexico.
Gadsden Purchase
Andrew Jackson preferred state banks over national banks, they were called ______ _________
Pet Banks
Term for when a state can refuse to obey a federal law?
Nullification
The North and West wanted to see improvements in ______________ because they believed it would increase trade.
Infrastructure- transportation
He petitioned Mexico, requesting that Texas become independent. Mexico refused.
Stephen F. Austin
Created a "doctrine" that said European nations had to stay out of the America's.
James Monroe
Agreement that gave independence to Texas.
Treaty of Velasco
This President bought the Louisiana Purchase and sent Lewis and Clarke West to explore?
Thomas Jefferson
Factory owner in Massachusetts that believed in hiring women?
Francis Lowell
Andrew Jacksons system of giving jobs to people loyal to him or donated money to him was called?
Spoil System
This act forced Native Americans in the South to go to reservations in Oklahoma?
Indian Removal Act
This person was Vice-President and he greatly opposed the American System's tariffs.
John C. Calhoun
The President of the Texas Republic, he defeated Santa Ana at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Sam Houston
This person coined the term Manifest Destiny
John L. O'Sullivan
Mexico signed this this treaty which gave the U.S. control of Texas, and ended the Mexican American War.
Guadalupe Hidalgo
After reaching the Coast of Oregon, what did the Lewis and Clarke expedition do for the next few months.
Wintered in the area, resting and re-supplying for the trip home. They also built a small fort.
Andrew Jackson's economic policies led to this economic disaster?
Panic of 1837
The first "highway" in America was called?
The National Road
Known as the "Father of the American factory system. He built the first textile plant in Rhode Island.
Samuel Slater
Who was the primary creator of the American System?
Henry Clay