Meanings
A government where the people are represented by the elected leader
What is a republic?
President who had enjoyed gambling, fighting, and partying. Killed a guy in a duel after he'd been shot. Ran off with a married woman.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This requirement to be able to vote was dropped.
What is wealth (being rich)? (Poor white men could now vote)
This was a mission before it became a fort.
What is the Alamo?
The country that most tribes fought for during the War of 1812.
What was England?
What happened to Santa Anne at the battle of San Jacinto.
What is he was captured?
"rule of the people"
A government in which the people directly participate in the decision making.
What is a democracy?
In the election of 1824, the House chose this candidate to be president through a "corrupt bargain."
Who was J.Q. Adams?
The river that Mexico believed was the border with Texas.
What is the Nueces River?
The number of Texans that were in the Alamo during the battle: 100, 150, 180, 200
What is 180 Texans?
The name the Cherokee tribe gave to their forced march to Oklahoma.
What is the Trails of Tears?
What happened to the Texans who surrendered at the Goliad.
What is they were massacred.
Describes when the candidate with the most popular votes and the most electoral votes does NOT become the president.
What is a corrupt bargain?
He was the president of Mexico when they lost Texas.
Who was Santa Anna?
2 ways that Jackson changed the way people ran for president.
What are:
a) acted like the "common man"
b) had a theme song
These 3 states used to be part of Mexico.
What are California, Texas, and Arizona?
What Jackson did after the Cherokee won their Supreme Court trial.
What is he ignored the Supreme Court.
Why the US didn't keep all of Mexico after they conquered it.
What is the US only wanted the land and not the people?
When the President fires everyone.
What is the spoils system?
He was the president of Texas.
Who was Sam Houston?
How Jackson felt about the National Bank.
What is he hated it and fought to get rid of it?
What all Texas students know about the Alamo.
What is: the Texans who died were heroes, and they held off Mexicans for 13 days?
The state the Seminole tribe live in.
What is Florida?
The name people who are of Spanish and Indian descent are called.
What is mestizo?
This group chose the President in 1824.
Who was the House of Representatives?
4 rules that Americans needed to follow to receive free land in Mexico.
What are: be a Mexican citizen, no slaves, speak Spanish, and be Catholic?
What Thomas Jefferson said the US needed in order to relocate Native American tribes.
What is their permission?
The U.S. president who started the war against Mexico.
Who was James Polk.
What is bribe the Speaker of the House?
2 ways the Cherokee made themselves similar to Americans.
What is: they developed an alphabet and they fought with the U.S. against the Creek?