Jackson
Who was Andrew Jackson's vice-president during the Nullification Crisis of 1832?
Who is John C. Calhoun of South Carolina?
What is the territory acquired in 1803 that doubled the size of the Unites States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase (1803)?
Nullification means to...
What is cancel or void?
Which immigrant group helped to build the Erie Canal?
Who are the Irish?
What is the name of the famous painting that symbolizes Manifest Destiny?
What is "American Progress" by John Gast (1872)?
What was President Jackson's reaction to the Supreme Court decision in Worchester v. Georgia?
What is he ignored the ruling and continued to relocate the Cherokee and other tribes of the southeast to Indian Territory?
What state allowed the people to vote to join the Union in 1845?
What is Texas?
Texas Annexation (1845)
The law that forced Native Americans to give up their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River was ...
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Which immigrant group was most responsible for bringing the cowboy culture to the United States?
Who were the Spanish/Mexicans?
What were the people called who rushed to California in the mid-1800's to find gold?
Who were the 49ers?
What was the main question of the Nullification Crisis of 1832?
What is "Can a state cancel a federal law that the state claims is unconstitutional?"
South Carolina threatens to nullify the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. In the South these tariffs were known as the "Tariffs of Abomination."
What territory was acquired by negotiations and a treaty with the British in 1846?
What is the Oregon Country (Territory)?
The Trail of Tears was...
What is the forced relocation of Native Americans from the American southeast to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River?
Which immigrant group came to find gold and eventually ended up working on the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who were the Chinese?
What geographic factor made westward migration difficult for settlers?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Why did critics of President Jackson accuse him of behaving more like a king than a president?
What is the claim that Jackson abused presidential power and ignored Constitutional limits?
What is the name of the land won from Mexico in the US/Mexico War (1846-48)?
What is the Mexican Cession (1848)?
Expanded sufferage means...
What is allowing more Americans to vote?
President Jackson eliminated the property requirement for voting, allowing poor white men to vote for the first time.
Which group settled the Utah Territory looking to freely practice their religious beliefs?
Who were the Mormons?
What issue drove the rise of the Know Nothing Party?
What is nativist fears that unfettered immigration would lead to a loss of the political power of native-born Americans?
What state was Andrew Jackson from?
What is Tennessee?
He was the first president that wasn't from either Virginia or Massachusetts.
What is the name of the territory acquired from Mexico in 1853 in order to build a southern railroad?
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Manifest Destiny is the belief that...
What is "it was the fate or destiny of the United States to own all the land in North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific?"
Which immigrant group introduced the idea of early childhood education to the U.S.?
Who were the Germans?
What modern day state was the relocation point for displaced natives during the Trail of Tears?
What is Oklahoma?