Growing Cost of a Nation
The belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent was called this.
Manifest Destiny
Native leaders like Tecumseh and John Ross opposed westward expansion to protect this.
Their land, sovereignty, and way of life
The U.S. purchased this large territory from France in 1803, doubling the size of the nation.
The Louisiana Purchase
What did Andrew Jackson remove so more men could vote?
the voting requirement that men needed to own property
The U.S. annexation of this territory in 1845 angered Mexico and helped trigger war.
Texas
U.S. territorial growth often displaced this group from their lands.
Native Americans
Chief Justice John Marshall is famous for what Supreme Court Case that established Judicial Review?
Marbury v. Madison
Children were removed from homes, languages were outlawed, people removed from their lands sometimes this was called
Cultural assimilation
Jackson signed this 1830 law that forcibly relocated Native American tribes west of the Mississippi.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
This president declared war on Mexico after clashes between U.S. and Mexican forces.
James K. Polk
Rapid industrial growth often came at this social cost, including poor working conditions and urban crowding
enslaved Black Americans & Immigrants
Which President was responsible for the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Andrew Jackson
How did tribal leaders continue to fight?
legal resistance, political advocacy, preserving culture
What social reform movements grew under Jackson?
temperance movement, women's suffrage, abolitionist movement
Some Americans opposed the war because they believed it was intended to expand this.
Slavery
Expansion disrupted the lives of enslaved people because it increased the spread of this labor system.
Enslaved labor System
He was known as a military strategist and Shawnee leader
Tecumseh
When the U.S. Government finally admitted to a moral reckoning, legal pressure, and failed assimilation they created what Act?
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
The forced march of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma became known as this.
The Trail of Tears
The new territories reignited this ongoing debate in the U.S. government
debate over slavery
Economic expansion often benefited these groups more than poor farmers, laborers, or Native Americans.
Elite and Wealthy White land owners
These individuals preserved Cherokee governance, culture, and identity amid removal.
Sequoyah, John Ross, Tecumseh
what act broke up indigenous lands into plots to sell to white settlers
Dawes Act of 1887
What countries were the majority of immigrants coming from during the 1830's and 1840's?
Ireland and Germany
This radical abolitionist led the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to try to start a slave rebellion.
John Brown