Voting & Elections
Regions
Native Americans
Vocab
Random
100

When the majority of the votes go to one candidate

Popular Vote

100

People began to travel this direction to gain more land and wealth

West
100

The reason Jackson gave the Native Americans land in Oklahoma

The land was considered bad

100

To bait someone into a fight/argument

Goad

100

Nickname of the men who first settled Oregon

Mountain Men

200

A system where political friends are rewarded for helping someone win an election

Spoils System

200

This region was known for large plantations and wanted to expand slavery

South

200

This is what white Americans wanted from Native Americans

Their land

200

A tax on goods coming into or out of a country

Tariff

200

A mission building (church) in Texas

The Alamo

300

The only people who could vote during Andrew Jackson's presidency 

White men

300

This area is where most people lived due to having large cities and factories 

North

300

The long journey that Native Americans were forced to walk after getting kicked out of their land

Trail of Tears

300

To add a state to the country

Annex

300

Mexico prohibited this in its territory (including Texas)

Slavery

400

The main political issue of the time

Slavery (or expansion of slavery)

400

The most famous way to travel out west

The Oregon Trail
400

The TWO reasons so many Native Americans died when they were kicked out of their land

Diseases and weather

400

The idea that America was chosen by God to take over the entire continent 

Manifest Destiny

400

Andrew Jackson favored giving more control to these instead of the federal government

The States

500

The reason America did not want to Annex Texas at first

To maintain the balance of slave and free states

500

The people that made up over 1/2 of the population of Florida by 1837

Enslaved people

500

The state where the Seminole people successfully resisted the Americans

Florida

500

If a state refuses to follow or acknowledge a federal law

Nullify 

500

Explain how America got into a war with Mexico

They goaded them by putting troops on contested land (or any version of that)

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