The Tree Branches
This branch can veto a bill passed by Congress.
what is the Executive Branch?
This U.S. purchase from France in 1803 doubled the size of the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1840s belief held that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The issue of Missouri’s admission foreshadowed this future national conflict.
What is the Civil War?
This branch has the power to declare war.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This 1849 event drew thousands of settlers to California in search of fortune.
what is the California Gold Rush?
This 2,000-mile route was used by pioneers traveling from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This network of transportation helped Northern industry and trade grow rapidly.
What are railroads?
This branch hears cases involving the Constitution and federal laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This 1830s forced removal of Native Americans from the Southeast led to thousands of deaths.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This 1854 law allowed settlers to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty, reigniting tensions.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This invention greatly increased the demand for slave labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This term means each branch can limit the powers of the other branches.
What is checks and balances?
Native Americans were forced to relocate to this present-day state during the Trail of Tears.
What is Oklahoma?
As new states were added, this debate grew stronger between North and South.
What is the debate over slavery?
The Missouri Compromise was one of the first major attempts to settle disputes over slavery in this territory.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The idea that government power should be divided to prevent abuse.
What is separation of powers?
This act of 1830 allowed the federal government to relocate Native tribes to western lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery north of this line of latitude in the Louisiana Territory.
What is 36°30′?
This Union General was fired by President Lincoln, even though he held the battle tactics of his Confederate enemy
Who is General George McClellan?