Jackson
Manifest destiny
Mexican American War
Vocabulary
Maps
100
Which president was the founder of the Democrat party & known as the president of the common man?
Andrew Jackson
100
Who did Americans believe gave them the right to conquer the Continent?
GOD
100
Who was the president during the Mexican American war?
James K. Polk
100
The largest number of something, but less than a majority.
Plurality
100
What is the Mountain range people had to cross to reach California and Oregon?
Rocky Mountains
200
What is the state that was acquired from Spain in 1819?
Florida
200
What year was gold discovered in Sutter's Mill?
1849
200
What was the treaty that ended the Mexican American war ?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
200
Greater than half of a total number of something (more than 50%).
Majority
200
Which group of asian immigrants moved to San Francisco in the 1800s for economic prosperity?
Chinese
300
How did Jackson respond to the Supreme Court decision of Worcester V. Georgia, and what event did it lead to?
Jackson ignored it and led to Trail of Tears.
300
What is the treaty's name that gave the territory of Florida from Spain to the United States?
Adams- Onis treaty of 1819.
300
True or False: The new border between Mexico and American after the Mexican American war was the Nueces river .
False
300
The right to vote.
Suffrage
300
After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, what was the new border between Mexico & Texas?
Rio Grande
400
"I consider, then, the power to nullify a law of the United State assumed by one state incompatible within the existence of the Union." What did Jackson mean by that quote? Which state was he referring to?
States couldn't legally overturn a federal law while they believed it was their right.
South Carolina.
400
Name of the BOOM TOWN that grew because of the California Gold rush
San Francisco.
400
What came first, the Texas Annexation or the Mexican American war?
Texas Annexation.
400
To add a territory to one's territory.
Annex
400
Which group of people migrated to Salt Lake City in search of religious freedom?
Mormons
500
What was the corrupt "bargain" of 1824 ?
Clay became secretary of state by persuading the House of Representatives to elect John Quincy Adams.
500
"Fifty-Four, forty or fight" helped which president win the 1844 election?
James K. Polk
500
Name this piece of land in the southwest United States that the U.S "purchased" 10 million for.
Gadsden Purchase.
500
Name at least two reasons why the common man voted for Andrew Jackson.
Poor white farmer
Self made
spoils system
war hero
500
Which letter on the map above represents the Mexican Cession?
C