Key Terms
Important People
Events
Unit 9
Grab Bag
100
The belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The explorers who were were ordered by Thomas Jefferson to go on an expedition into the territory gained in the Louisiana Purchase.
Who were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
100
The war with Mexico from 1846 to 1847 that resulted in Mexico ceding to the United States a huge region from Texas to California.
What is the Mexican-American War?
100

This event was the dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand 

What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
A tax on goods produced in the United States.
What is a tariff?
200
The people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849.
Who are Forty-Niners?
200
President who won the 1844 election with his slogans of "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" and "All of Oregon or Now!" He also was President of the United States during the Mexican-American War and saw the annexation of Texas.
Who is James Polk?
200
The forcible removal of American Indians from their land in the southeast to make way for white settlement and cotton production.
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
The South did not adopt the same manufacturing industries as the North because they used their ideal climate to grow this money-making crop.
What is cotton?
200

An overland route that stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence, Missouri to the Columbia River in Oregon.

What is the Oregon Trail?
300
This area included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
What is the Mexican Cession?
300
The Native American woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark throughout the North American continent. She was a translator, interpreter and guide in unfamiliar or unexplored territory.
Who is Sacagawea? 
300
Railroad builders wanted this land because it was relatively flat and could serve as a good railroad route, so it was purchased from Mexico by the United States in 1853.
What is the Gadsden Purchase? 
300
The availability of water power made this region's textile mills grow.
What is New England? 
300
This group of people created their own way of life on plantations to feel as though they were part of their own community.
Who are slaves?
400
The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
What is the spoils system?
400
This president opposed renewing the charter for the Second Bank of the United States because it had too much power over the economy and favored the wealthy.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
The response to this event included more laws to limit the actions of slaves.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
400

This group of people worked for low wages in harsh conditions in New England mill towns.

Who are women?
400
This was what was really being tested during the Nullification Crisis.
What is the rights of states to override federal laws?
500
The idea that common people should control the government.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
500
This explorer set out to explore the souther part of the Louisiana Territory. He traveled up the Valley of the Arkansas River into present-day Colorado.
Who is Zebulon Pike?
500
This war followed British impressment of American sailors and British support of American Indians.
What is the War of 1812?
500
The Industrial Revolution started in this European country.
What is England?
500
This Supreme Court case established the federal power to regulate interstate trade and transportation.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
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