Vocabulary
Presidential Decisions
Nationalism
Hodge Podge
Westward Expansion
100
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole
What are the "Five Civilized Tribes"?
100
A plan to allow slavery to spread into some areas but not to others
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
An invention by Eli Whitney that transformed manufacturing by making each copy of a manufactured item exactly alike
What are interchangeable parts?
100
In the south, this group of people could be found on large plantations or working as skilled craftsmen.
Who are African Americans?
100
The belief that Americans had the divine right to spread from "sea to shining sea"
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The practice of giving government jobs to political backers
What is the spoils system?
200
A plan to make the United States economically self-sufficient i.e. financially secure
What is the "American System"?
200
Most early factories were built in this region of the United States
What is New England?
200
The term that means "the extension of power to the common people" (1820's and 1830's)
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
200
A compromise with Britain gave us half of this territory in 1846
What is the Oregon Territory?
300
Florida, Oregon Territory, Louisiana Territory, and the Gadsden Purchase were acquired through the use of what?
What is diplomacy?
300
A document that warned other nations against colonizing in the North America, especially Latin America
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
300
The inventor who created the telegraph, allowing people to communicate long distances
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
300
A political party formed to protest the king-like decisions of Andrew Jackson
What is the Whig Party?
300
A border dispute in Texas started this
What is a war with Mexico?
400
Oklahoma, and parts of Kansas and Nebraska
What made up the Indian Territory?
400
In 1838, one-fourth of Native Americans died when they were forced to travel this trail leading west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
400
National unity, larger markets for products, and the quicker movement of people and products all occurred due to improvements in this area
What is transportation?
400
Provided a good railroad route into California
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
Conquered subjects
What is the view Andrew Jackson had of the Native Americans?
500
Jefferson's purchase of this land doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory (Purchase)?
500
A person who puts the interests of his or her state ahead of the national interests is demonstrating this attitude
What is sectionalism?
500
In this, Mexico ceded about half of its territory to the United States
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
The reason many Americans opposed the annexation of Texas
What is they still allowed slavery?
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