1803 land acquisition from France by the U.S. of the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
foreign policy doctrine set forth in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
Henry Clay's federal program desinged to stimulate the economy with internal improvements and create a self-sufficient nation
What is the American System?
100
hero of the Battle of New Orleans and 7th President of the United States
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
writer and publisher of anti-slavery newspaper 'The Liberator'
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
200
route from Independence, Missouri to Oregon that was used by pioneers in the mid-1800s
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
became a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise (1820)
What is Missouri?
200
tax on imports designed to protect American industry, this increased the price of imported goods by an average of 20 to 25%
What is the Tariff of 1816?
200
Jackson's Vice President who resigned as a result of the Nullification Crisis of 1832
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
daughters of southern slaveholder who later grew up to take part in abolitionist movement
Who are the Grimke Sisters?
300
fortified former mission in San Antonio was the site of the 1836 defeat and slaughter of Texans by Mexican troops
What is the Alamo?
300
ended Spanish claims to the Pacific Coast territory of Oregon and ceded Florida to the United States in 1821
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
300
political philosophy concerned with the interests of the common people and limited the role of the federal government
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
300
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseperable"
Who is Daniel Webster?
300
former slave from New York who held audiences spellbound with her powerful speeches and arguments
Who is Soujourner Truth?
400
19th century doctrine that westward expansion of the United States was not only inevitable but a God-given right
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
1819 Supreme Court case reinforcing the principle of national supremacy; states could not tax national bank
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
400
1828 tax on imports , so-named by its southern opponents (including the then-Vice President John C. Calhoun)
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
400
leaders of the Transcendtalist movement and supporters of civil disobedience
Who are Emerson and Thoreau?
400
read at the Seneca Falls Convention, this document outlined the aims of the convention and was a potent reminder of the principles of equality upon which the U.S. was founded
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
500
1820 agreement calling for equal representation of free states and slave states in Congress
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
1824 Supreme Court case establishing federal government's right to regulate interstate commerce
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
500
concept in which states could void any federal law they deemed unconstitutional
What is nullification?
500
state in which Frederick Douglass managed to escape from following years of forced servitude
What is Maryland?
500
leaders of the Women's Movement who argued in support of the role of women in public leadership