The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is the Manifest Destiny ?
100
Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
What is the Antebellum ?
100
The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States.
What is the Reconstruction Era ?
100
A war between citizens of the same country.
What is the Civil War ?
100
Deposits for minerals.
What is placer mining ?
200
An artificial waterway built across New York state in the early nineteenth century.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
What is Dawes Act?
300
A principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.