Action Jackson
Manifest Destiny
(Part 1)
Reform Movements
Manifest Destiny
(Part 2)
Who said it?
100
As part of the Indian Removal Act, most Native Americans were resettled in the land of this modern-day state.
What is Oklahoma?
100
Set the Texas border at the Rio Grande and ceded California and New Mexico to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
100
This reformer campaigned for improved treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
100
"Fifty-four forty or fight" was a famous slogan coined during what territorial dispute?
What is the Oregon territory?
100
"The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union."
Who is John C. Calhoun
200
Adams’ appointment of Clay as Secretary of State
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
200
Practice that Anglo-Texans had to give up in order to settle in Texas
What is slavery?
200
The writings of this transcendentalist would later influence Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
This TN politician defeated Henry Clay to win the Presidency in 1844.
Who is James K. Polk?
200
"I sincerely regret that in the act before me I can perceive none of those modifications of the bank charter which are necessary, in my opinion, to make it compatible with justice, with sound policy, or with the Constitution of our country. . . . The present Bank of the United States . . . enjoys an exclusive privilege of banking… almost a monopoly of the foreign and domestic exchange."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
To reign in rampant speculation, this decree required that all public lands be purchased with "hard" currency.
What is the Specie Circular?
300
Garrison where Anglo Texans were slaughtered, making them martyrs for the cause
What is the Alamo?
300
This religious group moved westward in the 1840s to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
300
As a direct result of the Mexican War, the U.S. would acquire territory that would make up these states. (NAME 6)
What is California--New Mexico--Wyoming--Colorado--Utah--Arizona--Nevada
300
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyrranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men--both natives and foreigners.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
400
This was passed during the Nullification Crisis that allowed the military to be used to collect federal tariff duties.
What is the Force Bill?
400
**DAILY DOUBLE** Decisive battle site of the Mexican-American war
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
400
**DAILY DOUBLE** Document issued at the Seneca Falls Convention
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
400
This was the Spanish General who defeated the American forces at the Alamo.
Who is General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
400
"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
**DAILY DOUBLE** This was the last president of the Second Bank of the United States, who publicly quarreled with President Jackson over the institution's Constitutionality.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
500
Wagon train group whose trek resulted in hardship and cannibalism
What is the Donner Party?
500
This reform organization was formed in Boston in 1826 to address the problems of "demon rum."
What is the American Temperance Society?
500
This was the name of "Old Fuss and Feathers," who led U.S. forces to the deciding capture of Mexico City in 1847.
Who is Winfield Scott?
500
“I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least:’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,-‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
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