Era of Good Feelings
This is a tax/tariff on goods coming from another country, making them more expensive. This forced Americans to buy things made in America.
What is a Protective Tariff
This is the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.
What is the spoils system
This was the idea that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny
What was the American System?
A series of major changes that made the U.S. stronger through building roads, canals, and a national bank.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
1). Missouri becomes a slave state
2). Maine becomes a free state
This event occurred in 1838 that forced the removal of Cherokee Indians by foot from Georgia to the Great Plains during the winter.
What is The Trail of Tears
What was the U.S. goal for the Mexican American War
What is expanding territory
What State or Territory did Mexico want back that became part of the reason for War?
Texas.
This part of the country favored business and industry, with factories leading the way.
The North.
This nickname was given to a group of 5 Native Americans who had their own written language, a newspaper, and their own constitution.
What are Civilized Tribes
What river did the U.S. believe was the border between the U.S. and Mexico?
Rio Grande River
This part of the country relied primarily on slave labor for an agrarian society.
The South.
What would be the negative impact of the cotton gin?
Cotton could be cleaned faster, which means now more was planted and more slaves would be needed.
This party was created by Jackson's supporters that was used between elections to build a new political organization.
What is the Democratic Party
What river did Mexico believe was the border between the U.S. and Mexico?
Nueces River
In the 1830s, the American Indians were removed from their homelands and sent to this location where many of them died.
What is modern day Oklahoma?
Why was it called "The Era of Good Feelings?"
It was called this because America was feeling good about itself after it beat England in the War of 1812, bought the Louisiana Purchase, funded the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was growing powerful and moving West!
This was an act that was passed by Congress allowing the President to make treaties to force the Indians to trade their lands in the East for lands on the Great Plains.
What is The Indian Removal Act
Name the treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This former slave created the newspaper titled The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?