Expansion & Manifest Destiny
This 1803 land deal—approved by President Jefferson—doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1830 law authorized the U.S. government to relocate Native nations east of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This domestic uprising over a federal tax let Washington test the new Constitution’s authority.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The Gold Rush began after a discovery in this year and drew migrants through 1855.
What is 1848 (through 1855)?
This term describes enslaved people treated as property that can be bought and sold.
What is chattel slavery?
The 19th-century belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
The deadly forced Cherokee migration of 1838–1839 is known by this name.
What is the Trail of Tears?
British impressment of sailors and interference with trade were key causes of this war.
What is the War of 1812?
Rapidly built settlements that sprang up near mines were called these.
What are boomtowns?
Nickname for the period when cotton dominated the Southern economy.
What is “King Cotton”?
His enthusiasm for Manifest Destiny helped spark war with Mexico after his message to Congress in 1846.
Who is James K. Polk?
He championed tax-funded, standardized schooling and teacher training.
Who is Horace Mann?
This treaty ended the War of 1812 and essentially restored pre-war boundaries.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
Two tough realities of mining life (name any two).
What are dangerous work, poor sanitation, high prices, scarcity, or lawlessness?
One way the cotton economy increased reliance on enslaved labor
What is labor-intensive cultivation/expansion of cotton fields / demand from textile mills?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and transferred a vast territory to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
1848 convention where Stanton and Mott advanced women’s rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Name one important effect of the War of 1812 on the U.S. (economy, nationalism, world standing).
What is increased nationalism / boosted U.S. manufacturing / global credibility? (any one)
Non-white miners—especially Mexicans, Chinese, and Native Americans—often faced these two problems.
What are discrimination and violence? (accept: taxes, exclusion, vigilante attacks)
Wealthy slaveholders’ political influence affected this broader institution.
What is American society and government (policy, representation, lawmaking)?
Name two present-day states that were part of the land gained from Mexico after the war.
What are any two: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Colorado and Wyoming?
She exposed conditions in prisons and asylums, helping spark reforms.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Western “War Hawks” in Congress pushed for war partly due to British support for these groups on the frontier.
Who are Native American nations?
Lewis and Clark documented unfamiliar Western wildlife during their expedition. Name one example.
What is the grizzly bear / pronghorn / prairie dog / bighorn sheep?
Formerly enslaved abolitionist, orator, and newspaper editor of The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?