Manifest
Destiny 1
Destiny 1
This is the belief the the U.S. should expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest destiny?
This best explains many Americans were willing to move westward?
What is the desire for new lands?
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
What was The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This purchase from France was meant to protect farmers' access to the Mississippi River and Port of New Orleans
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Mexico was anti this which led to clashes with Texas.
Anti-Slavery
What is the Spoils System, and why Andrew Jackson supported it?
when a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (cronyism), and relatives (nepotism) as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party
In an attempt to refresh the government and make it more efficient, President Andrew Jackson replaced many long-time civil servants with people loyal to him, rather than appointing the most qualified candidates.
What did the Tariff of Abominations do?
The tariff sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England's industrialists.
This independent republic became a state in 1845.
What is Texas?
A state joining the United States
What is annexation?
acquiring territory in Arizona and New Mexico to build a southern railroad route across the country.
What was 1853 Gadsden Purchase?
lasted from 1846-1848, this was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico.
What was Mexican-American War?
This was the trail many Americans used to head west.
Oregon Trail
Why Andrew Jackson disliked the Bank of the United States?
Jackson's distrust of the Bank was also political, based on a belief that a federal institution such as the Bank trampled on states' rights. In addition, he felt that the Bank put too much power in the hands of too few private citizens -- power that could be used to the detriment of the government.
This state threatened to secede during the Nullification Crisis.
What is South Carolina?
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
A state leaving the United States
What is secession?
The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.
What was Oregon Trail?
What was the Gadsden Treaty?
The treaty was an agreement between the US and Mexico.
Gadsden's desire to buy territory to pursue his railroad dream and Santa Anna's desire to get as much money as possible eventually created the nearly final terms of what is now known as the Gadsden Purchase: The U.S. would give Mexico $15 million, and Mexico would give the U.S. about 54,000 square ...
Mexico opened land for American colonization in this future state. Stephen Austin lead Americans into the land.
What was Texas?
This President defeated Andrew Jackson in the election of 1824. Called the Corrupt Bargain by Jackson supporters.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
What is the Trail Of Tears?
The Trail of Tears was when the United States government forced Native Americans to move from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Peoples from the Cherokee, Muscogee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes were marched at gunpoint across hundreds of miles to reservations.
What was the name the Cherokee gave for their journey from their homes in Georgia to the Indian territory west of the Mississippi?
Trail of Tears
Polk's campaign slogan "54-40 or fight" was in reference to which territory that the United States eventually signed a treaty with Britain to acquire?
Oregon
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
The US wanted this territory from Spain in order to stop raids by Native Americans.
What is Florida?
This Mexican-American War hero was elected president in 1848.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
Why was Andrew Jackson illustrated as King Andrew the First
was a response to Jackson's veto against the United States national bank deposits in September. He is depicted as a monarch because opposers often viewed Jackson as an abuser of his presidential powers, not obeying the laws.
This group of people earned the right to vote (suffrage) during the election of 1828 and were instrumental in Jackson being elected.
Who are non property owning men?
Went west to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
The year Texas joined the United States
What is 1845?
This compromise was created to stop the expansion of slavery out west.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny
Who is President Polk?
This was the land the United States got due to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What is the Mexican Cession?
A tax on imported goods.
a tariff
This court case sided with the Cherokee and said that the Indian Removal Act law was unconstitutional. Jackson ignored the court ruling.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?