Manifest Destiny
The 1800s belief that Americans had a god-given right to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The battle during the War of 1812 in which Andrew Jackson distinguished himself as a hero.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Indian territory where most of the Indians removed under the Removal Act went.
What is Oklahoma?
The "Father of Texas" who started the first American colony in Mexican owned Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
The important American building burned by the British in the War of 1812.
What is the White House?
Mexico won its independence from this country in 1821.
What is Spain?
Bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon and sent Lewis & Clark out on an expedition to explore it.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The adding of a region to the territory of an existing country.
What is annexation or annexing?
Andrew Jackson was the first president in history to invite the common people to this event.
What is the inauguration?
An important resource for Native Americans that were driven almost to extinction by white settlers moving west.
What is bison or buffalo?
Dictator of Texas during the Mexican-American War.
Who is Santa Anna?
The British practice of kidnapping American sailors and forcing them into military service.
What is impressment?
Texas's name when it was its own country for 10 years.
What is Lone Star Republic?
The Father of the Constitution who asked Congress to declare war against Britain in 1812.
Who is James Madison?
The amount of land a settler could receive under the Homestead Act.
What is up to 160 acres?
The system that resulted from the change in voting rights to include most white males over 21, including those who did not own land.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The President who proposed and signed the Indian Removal Act.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
A battle in which every volunteer Texan was killed by the Mexican Army.
What is the Alamo?
Another of the three nicknames for the War of 1812.
What are:
Second War of Independence
Revolutionary War Part II
The Forgotten War
Mass migration of hundreds of thousands of people to California beginning in 1848.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Went to war against the National Bank, and won.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
A path from Missouri to Oregon used by many pioneers during the 1840s.
What is the Oregon Trail?
When President Jackson fired government officials and gave their jobs to his friends and supporters.
What is the spoils system?
The march of over 1,000 miles taken by the Cherokee people to their new land in Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The issue that kept Texas from joining the United States for 10 years after becoming its own republic.
What is slavery?
The President of the U.S. during the War of 1812.
Who was James Madison?
The country the United States tried to take control of in the War of 1812.
What is Canada?
He threatened military action against South Carolina during the nullification crisis.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Sent on an expedition by President Jefferson to gather information on the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Jackson vigorously opposed this because he believed it was too powerful and only benefitted the rich.
What is the National Bank or the Bank of the United States?
This tribe started dressing like Europeans, built schools, and wrote a Constitution to avoid being included in the Indian Removal Act.
Who were the Cherokee?
Splitting this between the U.S. and Great Britain finally allowed the United States to achieve its goal of Manifest Destiny.
What is Oregon Territory?
This battle, which made Andrew Jackson famous, was fought after the Treaty of Ghent, which officially ended the war, was signed.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
The number of years a settler had to live on their land to "prove up" and receive ownership under the Homestead Act.
What is five years?
Declared war against Mexico in 1846.
Who is James K. Polk?
Land bought from Napoleon in 1803 that doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
South Carolina threatens to secede from the Union because they believed the tariffs being charged for imported goods were unconstitutional.
What is the nullification crisis?
This act, signed by President Jackson, removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to "Indian Territory."
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and granted the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California.
What is Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The battleship that earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" when British cannonballs bounced off of it during the War of 1812.
What is the USS Constitution?
What Santa Anna was said to be wearing when he was captured by Sam Houston the day after the Battle of San Jacinto.
What is his pajamas?
The son of a former President, he made a dirty deal to put himself in office and keep Andrew Jackson out.
Who is John Quincy Adams?