Vocabulary
What is an annual meeting where they would trade and share stories?
Lewis and Clark
What is the men who were sent by Jefferson to go on an expedition across the country, ran into Sacagawea on the way, and were to report back on any people, animals, or plants they found?
Zachary Taylor
What is the army officer that Polk ordered to march his soldiers across the disputed territory and get into a small battle with the Mexican army to start the war?
California Gold Rush
What is when gold was discovered in California, and many people came to the state in search for it?
Judicial Review
What is the right of the Supreme Court to determine if a law violates the Constitution, or to review on other acts?
Tarriff
What is a tax on imports or exports?
Francis Scott Key
What is the man who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" which told people what he saw on ships?
Sam Houston
What is the Commander in Chief of the Texas forces and 1st President of the Republic of Texas?
Mexican Cession
What is Mexico giving New Mexico and California to the United States?
Spoils System
What is the practice of handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters, which was part of the Jacksonian Democracy?
Annex
What is to add a territory to one's own territory?
Thomas Jefferson
What is the 3rd President of the United States, who purchased Louisiana from France?
Brigham Young
What is the leader of the Mormons?
The Trail of Tears
What is the forced march of the Cherokee from southeast United States to the west?
Alamo
What is a small Texan group defending this nearby mission in Texas during the Texan Revolution?
Mudslinging
What is attempts to ruin an opponents' reputations with insults, popular for use in the Election of 1828?
Andrew Jackson
What is a man known as "Old Hickory", a war hero of 1812, and the 7th President of the United States?
Levi Strauss
What is the man who sold miners sturdy pants made of denim during the Gold Rush?
Monroe Doctrine
What is the policy that the United States would not interfere with any existing European colonies in the Americas, and no new European colonies should be set up in the Western Hemisphere?
Oregon Trail
What is the trail that led to Oregon Territory that encouraged western expansion?
Laisesez-Faire
What is the policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy?
Henry Clay
What is the leading War Hawk who made the Missouri Compromise, and opposed Jackson in the election of 1832?
Forty-Niners
What is persons who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849?
Missouri Compromise
What is Henry Clay coming up with the idea that Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state, and that slavery was banned in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30'N parallel?
Tariff Debate
What is South Carolina passing the Nullification act, declaring it would not pay the "illegal" tariffs, and—threatening to break away from the Union—Andrew Jackson backed a bill that would lower the tariff?