Vocab
the belief that America was fated to expand Westward by God
Manifest Destiny
First Democratic President
Andrew Jackson
In this election, Alexander Hamilton chose his public enemy over Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson became president.
The Election of 1800
Jefferson sent Monroe and Livingston to buy this area. They came back with the entire Louisiana Purchase
New Orleans
This law displaced 5 tribes in the Southeast and pushed them onto Indian Territory in Oklahoma
The Indian Removal Act
Help fight and negotiate for workers’ rights
Labor Unions
a tax on imported goods
tariff
Opposed the Indian Removal Act and died at the Alamo
Davy Crockett
The US bought Florida from Spain in this Treaty
The Adams-Onis Treaty
declared that the Western Hemisphere was closed to further European colonization and that any European intervention in the affairs of independent American nations would be viewed as a hostile act.
The Monroe Doctrine
The Supreme Court case ruled that Indian tribes were not "foreign nations" but "domestic dependent nations" and therefore could not bring suit directly to the Supreme Court.
Cherokee v. Georgia
when a group of workers stop working in protest
strike
to add new territory
annex
Expansionist president that started the Mexican American War
James K. Polk
The US won this huge piece of territory after the Mexican-American War
The Mexican Cession
Rather than risk war for trading with one, Jefferson and Congress passed this law, which banned trade with all countries.
The Embargo Act 1807
This Supreme Court case tried to limit Georgia's control over Cherokee lands, but failed when Jackson did not enforce the ruling.
Worcester v. Georgia
This invention led to the increase in slavery
to formally approve
Ratify
Leader of the Seminole resistance
Chief Osceola
What was Hamilton’s plan for revolutionary war debt?
Combine debts under a national bank
Economic Plan by Henry Clay that raised tariffs and used that money to build canals and roads to make it easier for Americans to get their goods to market
American System
This treaty ended the Mexican American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Immigrants from these countries came to the US in higher rates in the mid 1800s
China, Germany, Ireland
when people are forced to leave their home
displacement
Cherokee Chief who challenged Indian Removal in court (e.g., Worcester v. Georgia).
John Ross
During the presidency of John Adams, three French agents discussed a treaty with the United States only in exchange for a bribe. The incident came to be known as the
The XYZ affair
Causes of the War of 1812
Warhawks, Native American resistance, Impressment, Trade Restrictions, Expansion
Why did Polk start the Mexican American War
LAND
New England textile manufacturing model that primarily employed young, single women from farming families to work in its factories,
The Lowell System