Old Hickory
Jackson's practice of rewarding campaign supporters with government jobs.
What is the Spoils System?
The belief that the United States was meant to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Mexico allowed this man to start an American colony in Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Gold seekers who arrived in California in 1849 were known by this nickname.
What are the 49ers?
Forcing a group to abandon its culture and adopt another's.
What is assimilation?
Backing money with both gold and silver.
What is bimetallism?
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Jackson used this phrase after no one won a majority in 1824, and the House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams
What is the “corrupt bargain”?
This canal connected farms to cities, lowered shipping costs, and boosted trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
Mexico outlawed this, which upset American settlers in Texas
What is slavery?
California became a state this year and entered as a free state, upsetting the balance of power in Congress.
What is 1850?
Gold was discovered in these hills, and prospectors flooded the area in search of it.
What are the Black Hills?
Better farm technology led to a surplus, which made this fall.
What are crop prices?
This is a state declaring a federal law invalid inside its borders.
What is nullification?
Eli Whitney invented this machine for processing cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This vocabulary word means to add territory to a country.
What is annex?
This 1862 law gave settlers land for free.
What is the Homestead Act?
The U.S. broke this 1868 treaty after gold was discovered on Sioux land.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
William Jennings Bryan supported bimetallism in this famous speech.
What is the “Cross of Gold” speech?
The Indian Removal Act forced the “5 Civilized Tribes” west on this deadly journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The cotton gin’s major downside: it greatly increased the demand for this.
What is enslaved labor?
In this 1848 treaty, Mexico ceded the land between Texas and the Pacific to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Merchants got rich during the Gold Rush, like the man who sold goods to miners and whose name became synonymous with blue jeans.
Who is Levi Strauss?
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At Little Bighorn in 1876, Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by this man killed Custer’s entire cavalry.
Who is Crazy Horse?
Farmers wanted more money in circulation to cause this, which would raise crop prices and make loans easier to repay.
What is inflation?
Jackson vetoed the National Bank’s charter and moved federal money into state banks, leading to this economic crisis.
What is the Panic of 1837?
This political party was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson.
What is the Whig Party?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo established this river as Texas's border.
What is the Rio Grande?
African Americans who moved west after the Civil War, many to Kansas.
Who are the Exodusters?
This 1887 law broke up reservations into family farms to force assimilation
What is the Dawes Act?
This Republican backed the gold standard and defeated Bryan in the Election of 1896.
Who is William McKinley?