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The institution of slavery increased, as well as the number of slaves in the country, as an unintended result of this invention.
What is the cotton gin?
What you call someone who wanted to abolish slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
Andrew Jackson rose to fame after winning this major battle in the War of 1812. (Think important city)
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Country that sold the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson.
What is France?
This invention increased the speed of water transportation.
What is the steamboat?
Andrew Jackson created this political party that fought against the rival Whig Party at the time.
What is the Democrat Party?
"To the victor goes the spoils" highlights the idea behind this system implemented during Jackson's presidency. (Read carefully)
What is the Spoils System?
A man made waterway.
What is a canal?
Contains the Great Plains, which are a part of a major territory that doubled the USA in size overnight.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
To break away from the rest of the country.
What is secession?
This crisis saw southern states attempt to refuse to follow a federal law that they felt disproportionately affected them. (Think vocabulary word)
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This river was the most important part of the Louisiana territory.
What is the Mississippi River?
This revolution eventually led to the purchase of Louisiana by the United States.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This law forcefully removed the "five civilized tribes" west of the Mississippi River into modern day Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This court case was argued in the Supreme Court to establish that Georgia could not take over Cherokee Land, but it failed on a technicality. (Read carefully)
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
Traveled the Louisiana Territory alongside York, and most famously, Sacagawea.
Who are Lewis & Clark?
American Indian who made a Pan-Indian attempt to unite and ward off encroaching Americans from their lands and way of life.
Who is Tecumseh?
Declared Europe can not interfere with independence movements among new nations in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This court case was the second attempt to establish that Georgia had no right to take Cherokee land and it was successful. (Think steak)
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The idea that Americans had a divine right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The name of the first lady who saved a famous picture of George Washington from being burned down during the War of 1812 when the British invaded Washington D.C. (Hint: Her husbands name was James)
Who is Dolly Madison