Era of Jackson
This is the idea that all free white men should be able to vote in a presidential election.
What is Universal Male Suffrage?
This is who was forced along the Trail of Tears.
What are Native American tribes, mostly in southern and western Georgia?
+100 BONUS POINTS if you said the Five Nations tribes
This is the main mode of transportation for people initially moving out west, along the Oregon Trail.
+100 BONUS POINTS: When was the best month(s) to start a journey along the Oregon Trail? Think about weather and distance.
What is a covered wagon pulled by oxen?
BONUS ANSWER: April or May, so families didn't get stuck in the mountains during the winter.
This is the term used when a territory is added to another territory (usually another country).
What is Annexation?
This was the biggest moral issue facing the nation in the 1850s to 1860s.
What is slavery?
These are Andrew Jackson's Vice Presidents.
+100 BONUS POINTS if you can name what each of them are best known for.
Who are John C. Calhoun and Martin van Buren?
BONUS ANSWER: Calhoun supported his home state of South Carolina in nullification; van Buren helped Jackson dismantle the federal/national bank system.
This is the act that started the Trail of Tears, signed by this president.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830, signed by Andrew Jackson?
This is the concept that the United States was ordained by God to span the North American continent (sea to shining sea).
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is the name of the people living in Texas before the Americans settled there.
Who are the Tejanos?
This is the definition of the term Sectionalism when talking about growing tensions in the 1830s to early 1860s.
What is the growing division between the North and the South?
This political party was formed in opposition of so-called "Jacksonian Democracy."
What is the Whig Party?
This is the tribe that attempted to fight removal in court rather than on the battlefield.
What is the Cherokee Nation?
These two regions of the country benefitted most from Westward expansion for these reasons.
What are the North, because that was where the tracks and trains and canals and factories were being built, and the West, because it was becoming more populated and connected to the already-established economy of the North.
This is the river the United States claimed as the official border between Texas and Mexico, a claim that led to the Mexican-American War.
What is the Rio Grande?
This is the piece of legislation that created the idea of territories voting on becoming free or slave states, sparking Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is why Andrew Jackson opposed the bank.
What is he believed it was corrupt and only benefitted the rich and powerful, while hurting the common man?
This is how many Native American's died before ending up in this state.
What is 15,000 people before ending up in Oklahoma?
Explain why the South did NOT support more trains, cables, canals, etc. being built out West.
What is because the South was an economy based on growing crops and maintaining plantations, which did not benefit from more infrastructure, unlike the North; the South did not want to be left behind in this time of great economic growth?
This is why some states did not want the United States to annex Texas.
What is the issue of slavery and whether a state should be free or slave?
The North didn't want to add Texas because some people wanted slavery there, and the South was hesitant because not everyone wanted slavery there.
This is what the Compromise of 1850 did (three).
What is allow California to join the union as a free state, allow slavery to continue in DC, ban slave trading in DC, include the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, take away part of Texas and give it to New Mexico (Texas got $10 million as compensation), and solidify Henry Clay as "the Great Compromiser".
These are the connections between William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (two).
What are Whig party presidents and Tyler was Harrison's Vice President until Harrison's untimely death?
This is one of the main reasons for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
What is white people wanted the Native Americans' land because gold had been found in it, and white people needed more room to expand but did not want to move into the then-unknown territory west of Georgia?
These are three reasons people may not have supported Westward Expansion.
What are the dwindling bison population, the deaths and/or forced migration of Native Americans, the issue of which territories would turn into free or slave states, the idea that this expansion favored only two regions of the country, and that (until 1848) most of the land was not owned by the United States?
This is the name of the president during the Mexican-American War and most of Westward Expansion.
Who is James Polk, the Expansionist president?
This is how the invention of the cotton gin and the steam engine impacted the rising tensions between the North and the South.
What is the cotton gin strengthened the South's dependence on both slavery and cotton as a cash crop, and the steam engine led to more economic growth for the North due to the factories/companies making the engines and tracks as well as the trains allowing people from even further away to participate in the North's economy?