Money & Problems
This plan to increase economic development was created by Henry Clay and included three parts: a new national bank, a tariff on imported manufactured goods, and federal funding of infrastructure projects.
What is the American System
This important War of 1812 battle launched Andrew Jackson's political career.
What is the Battle of New Orleans
The painting American Progress by John Gast represents this popular American belief about westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny
The policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest.
Desire to annex this territory fueled the Mexican War.
What is Texas
This occurred when European demand for American raw materials returned to normal amounts and many farmers had to declare bankruptcy because they could not repay their loans.
Andrew Jackson illegally invaded this Spanish territorial possession which later became a state.
What is Florida
Over 400,000 people followed this 2,100 mile trail westward between 1840 and 1869.
What is the Oregon Trail
This man wrote an autobiography called 12 Years a Slave detailing the time he spent held illegally in bondage.
Who is Solomon Northup
This 4 part plan, designed by Henry Clay, overturned the Missouri Compromise and called for the slavery question to be determined by popular vote in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This is the phrase used to describe the time of President James Monroe's terms in office because there was a widespread sense of national pride and unity following the War of 1812 and the collapse of the Federalist party.
The Era of Good Feelings
Andrew Jackson used this presidential power to shut down the Second Bank of the United States.
What is veto power
Who is Columbia.
This woman wrote an autobiography called Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl which highlighted the sexual exploitation and abuse of enslaved women.
Who is Harriet Jacobs.
This proposal by James Tallmadge, a Republican Congressman from New York, sparked a controversy that lasted two years and shattered Republic party unity- splitting it along sectional lines.
What is the Missouri Controversy
This controversial act ultimately resulted in the death and/or displacement of thousands of Cherokee, Chocktaw, and other indigenous peoples.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830
In this important court case Justice John Marshall ruled that, “Georgia could not regulate activity on the Cherokee lands.”
What is Worcester v. Georgia 1832
This 4 day slave rebellion started on August 21, 1831 and resulted in the deaths of approximately 55 white men, women, and children.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
In his majority opinion in the Dred Scott v. Sanford 1857 court case, this Chief Justice of the Supreme court said that black people “had no rights which a white man was bound to respect.”
Who is Roger B. Taney
This plan admitted two new states, one free and the other slave, and said that slavery would be prohibited in all remaining territory within the Louisiana Purchase north of 36°30’
What is the Missouri Compromise
The controversy in which South Carolina said it could choose which federal laws to apply within its borders to which Andrew Jackson responded with federal warships and a threat to execute anyone who opposed them.
The Nullification Crisis
In American progress by John Gast, Columbia is holding a telegraph wire and this common object.
What is a school book.
This is the adjective used to described methods of resistance characterized by acts with KNOWN and IDENTIFIABLE perpetrators.
What is overt
This radical abolitionists last message before being hanged for his takeover of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry was, “I, (name) , am quite certain that the crimes of the guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.”
Who is John Brown