Was a legislative agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining the balance of power in the U.S. Congress
Missouri Compromise
Marbury v Madison established this principle, expanding the power of the Judicial Branch
Judicial Review
Leaders of the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.
Lewis and Clark
President responsible for the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Designed to protect northern manufacturers, its rates were so high that Southern states, which relied on exporting cotton and importing manufactured goods, felt unfairly burdened and economically disadvantaged
Tariff of Abominations
McCulloch v Maryland established the Supremacy clause which means what?
Federal Government reigns supreme to state governments
The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande
Gadsden Purchase
The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs became widespread under
Andrew Jackson
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing residents to decide the issue of slavery through "popular sovereignty".
Kansas Nebraska Act
Marshall wrote that the Indian nations were “distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights” and that the United States had acknowledged as much in several treaties with the Cherokees.
Worcester v Georgia
officially ended the Mexican-American War, with Mexico ceding over 525,000 square miles of territory to the United States
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Jackson expanded the rights of what group leading to an increase of democracy in the USA
Poor White Men
United States House of Representatives that forbade legislators from raising, considering, or discussing slavery.
Gag Rule
Worcester v Georgia Contradicted this law put into effect by Andrew Jackson
Indian Removal Act
Event which led to approximately 300,000 people from the rest of the United States and abroad to California
California gold Rush
1824 US presidential election, where Andrew Jackson claimed that John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay struck a deal to make Adams president
Corrupt Bargain
Authorized the U.S. president to negotiate land-exchange treaties with tribes east of the Mississippi River, leading to the forced relocation of tens of thousands of Native Americans to land west of the river.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835
John Marshall
that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America.
Manifest Destiny
The President who admitted Texas into the United States
James Polk