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
Gave the President too much power / Power over the Other Branches
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
This president acquired the Louisiana Territory in 1803, doubling the size of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
The growing division between the anti-slavery states and the pro-slavery states was known as
Sectionalism
What movie is this?
Surfs Up
The "safest" pathway taken when traveling to the Pacific Northwest. Don't get dysentery!
Oregon Trail
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
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
As the fifth president, he proclaimed the United States would oppose any European attempts to colonize Latin America.
James Monroe
Economically, the South depended on ____________ to make money while the north depended on its __________________
Agriculture/Slavery , Industry/Industrialization
What character is this?
Lightning McQueen
A major US conflict as a result of the expansion of Manifest Destiny
US-Mexican War
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
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
His election in 1860, without a single electoral vote from the Southern states, was a direct cause for secession / civil war
Abraham Lincoln
To leave the Union
Secede
Who is this Marvel Villain?
Ultron
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
This political crisis during Jackson’s presidency involved South Carolina threatening to secede over federal tariffs it deemed unconstitutiona
Nullification Crisis
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
His policy of Indian Removal and his response to the Nullification Crisis demonstrated a strong use of executive power.
Andrew Jackson
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)
Name this movie
The Matrix
The treaty which ended the Mexican-American war and allowed the US to acquire California, New Mexico and other Southwestern states
Guadalupe-Hidalgo
____________________, 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
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
This President led the US through the US-Mexican War
James Polk
Name 3 of the 5 "Border States" at the onset of the war
West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri
What movie is this? The first rule is that you never talk about it
Fight Club