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the expansion of the US throughout the American continents
What is Manifest destiny
This was an act that, among other things, was used by the lame duck President John Adams in his last 19 days in office to stack the U.S. federal court system with as many pro-Federalist judges as possible.
midnight judges
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
What was The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was an act in 1862 that granted 160 acres of federal land to settlers who could maintain and improve the land.
President during the trail of tears
Andrew Jackson
this is how Texas became a part of the US.
What is annexation?
A state joining the United States
What is annexation?
This was the winner of the Presidential Election of 1800 and leader of the Democratic-Republican party.
Thomas Jefferson
lasted from 1846-1848, this was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande. Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico.
What was Mexican-American War?
This is the practice of review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act or executive action.
Judicial Review
Florida was sold by this country to the US
What is Spain?
A state leaving the United States
What is secession?
This was an American politician and lawyer who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835.
John Marshall
Lands from California to New Mexico, American gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
What was Mexican Cession?
Mexico opened land for American colonization in this future state
What was Texas?
(1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
This was an act in 1830 in which coerced the American Indians in the southeast to move west of the Mississippi.
Indian Removal Act
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
The US wanted this territory in order to stop raids by Native Americans.
What is Florida?
This was an agreement between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
Adams-Onis Treaty
This was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States.
Marbury v. Madison
The year Texas joined the United States
What is 1845?
This was an American political party in the late-18th and early-19th century that advocated the extension of democracy to a wider populace, small-scale farming, and the expansion of territory for farmland.
Democratic Republicans
This was a diplomatic policy by the United States which threatened war with any European powers who interfered with newly-independent states in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
The decade Manifest Destiny took place
What 1840-1850?