Manifest
Destiny 1
Destiny 1
This is the term for the belief the the U.S. had a God-given mandate to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest destiny?
Term for the process of a state leaving the United States.
What is secession?
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
What was The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Term referring to when a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (cronyism), and relatives (nepotism) as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party?
What is the Spoils System?
The first permanent English settlement in America.
this is how Texas became a part of the US.
What is annexation?
Group that went west to Utah to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
The years of the Mexican-American War.
What are 1846-1848?
The president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny.
Who is President James K Polk?
Candidate who defeated Jackson in the election of 1824.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
What was the year of the Treaty of Paris that ended the French and Indian War?
1763
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
Term for possession taken of a piece of land or a country, usually by force or without permission.
What is annexation?
Discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848?
What is Gold, sparking the California Gold Rush?
Law passed by Congress in 1830 where the government tried to "peacefully" move the Natives from the South to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
Jackson's response, authorized by Congress, in response to South Carolina's refusal to obey the tariff.
What is to use the military, if necessary, to collect the tariff? (Force Bill)
This act allowed British soldiers to barge into colonists' homes...
Quartering Act
Give THREE facts about the Louisiana Purchase.
Purchased for $15,000,000
Doubled size of country
Bought in 1803 by Jefferson
From France (Napoleon)
3-5 cents an acre
Brought settlers to Texas--Father of Texas.
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
What was the name of the treaty where America gained Florida?
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
The event that led to Polk asking for a declaration of war on Mexico.
What is Mexican soldiers firing on American troops along the Rio Grande over a dispute of the southern border of Texas?
Jacksonian democracy sought to make it easier for this group of Americans to participate in the government.
Who are the common people or the common man?
The first document to govern the United States before the Constitution?
The Democratic Party's campaign slogan regarding Oregon in 1844.
What was 54 -40 or fight?
The year Texas joined the United States
What is 1845?
What states were part of the Mexican Cession? (name 4)
What are California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona?
The Battle of San Jacinto.
What is the name of the decisive battle where Sam Houston and the Texans defeated Santa Anna and/or the battle where Texas gained its independence?
Jackson's two actions to "kill" the US Bank.
What is to veto the bill to re-charter the bank and move the deposits out of the US Bank and placed them in state banks (pet banks).
This law is what Jefferson asked Congress to pass did to try to avoid war with Britain and France...stopped exports from American ports... turned out to be a total failure...
What was the Embargo Act of 1807?