Westward Expansion
The Age of Jackson
Compromises
Presidents
Misc.
Movies / Characters
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This term refers to the 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its dominion and spread democracy across the North American continent.

Manifest Destiny

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Many events in Jacksons presidency expanded the role of the Executive branch/role of the President. What does this concept refer to? 

Gave the President too much power / Power over the Other Branches 

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This 1820 agreement drew a line across the country, admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to maintain the balance of power

Missouri Compromise 

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This president acquired the Louisiana Territory in 1803, doubling the size of the United States.

Thomas Jefferson

10

The growing division between the anti-slavery states and the pro-slavery states was known as

Sectionalism

10

What movie is this?


Surfs Up

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The "safest" pathway taken when traveling to the Pacific Northwest. Don't get dysentery! 

Oregon Trail

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This 1830 law, strongly supported by Jackson, led to the forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast, a journey later called the "Trail of Tears."

Indian Removal Act

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Proposed by Henry Clay, this agreement included the admission of California as a free state and the passage of the stricter Fugitive Slave Act.

1850 Compromise 

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As the fifth president, he proclaimed the United States would oppose any European attempts to colonize Latin America.

James Monroe

20

Economically, the South depended on ____________ to make money while the north depended on its __________________ 

Agriculture/Slavery , Industry/Industrialization

20

What character is this?


Lightning McQueen

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A major US conflict as a result of the expansion of Manifest Destiny

US-Mexican War

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Jackson’s policy of rewarding political supporters with public office is known by this name, which critics claimed led to incompetence and corruption.

Spoils System

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This 1854 law allowed for the creation of two new territories and used the concept of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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His election in 1860, without a single electoral vote from the Southern states, was a direct cause for secession / civil war

Abraham Lincoln

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To leave the Union 

Secede

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Who is this Marvel Villain?


Ultron

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The annexation of this former Mexican territory in 1845, which entered the Union as a slave state, heightened sectional tension over the balance of power.

Texas

40

This political crisis during Jackson’s presidency involved South Carolina threatening to secede over federal tariffs it deemed unconstitutiona

Nullification Crisis

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This violent abolitionist led a major attack on an arsenal on Harpers Ferry in hopes to start a major revolt across the south

John Brown

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His policy of Indian Removal and his response to the Nullification Crisis demonstrated a strong use of executive power.

Andrew Jackson

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Infamous Supreme Court Case where the Supreme Court ruled that ______________ an enslaved man, was not a U.S. citizen and therefore could not sue in federal court. The decision also declared that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories, effectively invalidating the Missouri Compromise. 

Dredd Scott  (Dredd Scott v. Sandford)

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Name this movie


The Matrix

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The treaty which ended the Mexican-American war and allowed the US to acquire California, New Mexico and other Southwestern states

Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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____________________, was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel (Last Name) and held that the (state) criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. This case was ignored by Andrew Jackson

Worcester v Georgia

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The caning of ______________________, occurred on Thursday, May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.

Charles Sumner 

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This President led the US through the US-Mexican War

James Polk

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Name 3 of the 5 "Border States" at the onset of the war

West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri

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What movie is this? The first rule is that you never talk about it


Fight Club

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