Land Acquisitions
The belief that Americans have the God given right to all land of the North American Continent. Sense of Nationalism
What is Manifest Destiny?
The US bought land from France that doubles the US in 1903.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the right a state has to nullify or invalidate any federal law which the state has deemed unconstitutional.
What was nullification?
This part of the country is associated with nullification. This region also wanted to expand slavery.
What is Southern.
This is segregation that was by custom. In the north
What is de facto segregation?
We gained land From Great Britain after the American Revolution in 1783
What was the Treaty of Paris?
The US annexed Texas in 1845.
What was the TX Annexation?
This was the act that forced Native Americans east of the MS. This was signed by President Andrew Jackson.
What was the Indian Removal Act.
This region remained largely agricultural and was where people expanded to.
This is segregation by law and this was practiced in the south.
What is de jore?
In 1919 the US acquired Florida from Spain.
What wast the Adams Onis Treaty?
Land the US got from Great Britain in 1783
What was the Treaty of Paris?
This is the act that prohibited American merchant ships from sailing to any foreign place.
What was the embargo act?
This part of the country favored a high protective tariff and attacked immigrants.
What is Northern?
This president was the champion of the common man.
What is Andrew Jackson?
In 1846 the US and Great Britain agreed on the 49th Parallel while Polk was president.
What was the Oregon Territory?
This treaty ended the Mexican war and the US gained CA, NM, NV, and AZ in 1948. This is sands favorite treaty
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was the court case that Jackson refused to abide by the courts decision that GA was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor invade their land.
What what Worcester vs. Georgia
This was Henry Clay idea that was meant to promote national and to unify the nations
What wast the American system?
Compromise that kept the balance in the senate between free and slave that said the Louisiana Territory would be free expect Missouri. 1820
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This is when the US bought land from Mexico in 1853. This was the final border of the lower 48 states.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
The US Gained land east of the MS river and gave the US the port of New Orleans in 1795.
What was the Pinckneys Treaty?
John C. Calhoun tried to nullify this Tariff because they were unconstitutional. He wanted to promote the idea of States Rights.
What was the tariff of Abomination?
Part of the American system that helped in developing a tranpsortaiotn system and cheaper land
What is internal improvements?
This was started because President Polk asked to buy CA and NM from Mexico and they refused so this started a war. In 1846.