Jacksonian Democracy
This group gained the most voting rights during the 1820s–1830s expansion of democracy.
Who are white men
The 1830 law that allowed the federal government to pay Native Americans to relocate west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The treaty that transferred Florida from Spain to the United States in 1819.
What is the Adams–Onís Treaty?
The belief that the U.S. was “meant” to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Gold was discovered at this place in 1848, launching the Gold Rush.
What is Sutter’s Mill?
Jackson replaced government workers with supporters; this practice is called the ____ system.
What is the spoils system?
The Cherokee name for their forced journey west; historians call it this.
What is the Trail of Tears?
In 1824, this city became the territorial capital of Florida.
What is Tallahassee?
Texas became a U.S. state in this year.
What is 1845?
People who rushed to California in 1849 were called these.
Who are the forty-niners?
Jackson opposed this institution because he saw it as too powerful and favoring wealthy Easterners.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
This Supreme Court case ruled Georgia laws had no force in Cherokee territory.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
One reason white Southerners were angry about Spanish Florida: it served as a refuge for these people.
Who are runaway enslaved people?
The U.S. gained Oregon Territory mainly through this method with Great Britain.
What is negotiation/compromise (a treaty)?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and made Mexico accept the Rio Grande as Texas’s border.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Jackson vetoed this internal-improvements bill because the road would be entirely inside one state.
What is the Maysville Road bill?
The treaty signed by a small group that agreed to give up Cherokee land by 1838.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
Florida became the ____ state on this date: March 3, 1845.
What is the 27th state?
The war that ended with the U.S. gaining a huge “Mexican Cession.”
What is the Mexican-American War?
A group of reviewers set up by this 1851 law forced Californios to prove land ownership in court.
What is the California Land Act of 1851?
The crisis where a state claimed it could refuse to obey a federal tariff law.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The Seminole leader who resisted removal and became famous for surprise attacks.
Who is Osceola?
Congress delayed Florida’s admission partly to maintain this balance in Congress.
What is the balance between slave states and free states?
The 1854 purchase meant to help build a southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
California entered the Union as a free state in this year, after Congress reached a compromise.
What is 1850?