Foreign Policy
He became a war hero as a result of the War of 1812.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This term describes Americans' belief in their god-given right to expand westward during the 19th century in order to spread democratic values.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention transformed factory production and transportation in the United States.
What is the steam engine?
This was the political party formed in the 1830s in order to oppose Jackson's policies.
What is the Whig Party?
This state entered the union as a free state when Missouri became a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
This was an attempt by the United States to prevent European countries from recolonizing Latin American countries.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This author coined the term that refers to Americans' god-given right to expand westward.
Who is John O'Sullivan?
This invention transformed the southern economy and revitalized slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
Voting rights expanded to this group of people in the 1820s through changes to states' constitutions.
White men who did not own property.
This was the Free-Soiler proposal during the Mexican-American War to prevent any new territories from becoming slave states.
What is the Wilmost Proviso?
This was one of the main causes of the War of 1812. Britain was intercepting American merchants ships and forcing sailors to join the British navy.
What is impressment?
Mexico required white American settlers in Texas to do this in order to reside there.
What is convert to Catholicism or abolish slavery?
This was the episode that led to conflict between Andrew Jackson and a state over the issue of the tariff.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This state nullified a federal tariff that they referred to as the "Tariff of Abominations."
What is South Carolina?
This U.S. senator was caned on the floor of the Senate.
Who is Charles Sumner?
The Mexican-American War started as a result of a skirmish near this river.
What is the Rio Grande River?
This was the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
Henry Clay's American System proposed three components: 1. Re-chartering the National Bank, 2. Federal spending for internal improvements, and this third component.
What is raising tariffs?
This Supreme Court case prohibited the southern states from harassing Native Americans. Jackson ignored it.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This was the U.S. senator (and former vice president) who was the most outspokenly pro-slavery. He advocated for the spread of slavery into any western territory.
Who is John Calhoun?
This was Thomas Jefferson's attempt at keeping the U.S. neutral as Britain and France fought a war with each other.
What is the Embargo Act (1807)?
These two territories ceded by Mexico at the end of the Mexican-American War were supposed to determine their slavery status via "popular sovereignty."
What are Utah and New Mexico?
This 1819 Supreme Court case said that states can't give a monopoly to a steamboat company because Congress is in charge of interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
This was the process used by Jackson to destroy the National Bank.
He pulled federal money out of the bank and deposited it in "pet banks."
John Brown killed 5 people who were pro-slavery in this town in Kansas in 1856.
What is Pottawatomie Creek?