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(1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act.
A formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries.
What is a Treaty.
16th President of the United States. Fought to save the Union during the Civil War and emancipated enslaved people in states in rebellion against the United States.
(Emancipation Proclamation)
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
The principle of government that it is established by the people through voting and elections.
What is Popular Sovereignty.
An area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.
What is Territory.
Change to the Constitution.
What is an Amendment.
Abolitionist who was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism.
A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny.
3rd President of the United States. Wrote the Declaration of Independence. Was the first Secretary of State.
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North.
Who is Fredrick Douglas.
An American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers.
What is the Monroe Doctrine.
The right of an arrested individual to appear before a court to determine if his imprisonment is illegal.
What is Habeas Corpus.
A name for President Monroe's two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion.
What is the Era of Good Feelings.
The Missouri compromise allowed for Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state maintaining the balance of power in the senate.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825.
What is the Erie Canal.
(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway enslaved people; allowed for the arrest of escaped enslaved people in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act.
Supreme Court case that decided US Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in federal territories and enslaved people, as private property, could not be take away without due process.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford.
A rule issued by the president that has the force of law.
What is an Executive Order.
Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Lewis and Clark.
The seventh President of the United States. He opposed the Bank of America, signed into law the Indian Removal Act in 1830, and increased the presidential powers.
Who is Andrew Jackson.
"Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, and fourth President of the United States. President during War of 1812.
Who is James Madison.
A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France.
What is the War of 1812.
The manner in which a country chooses to organize its relationships with other countries.
What is Foreign Policy.