Territorial Acquisition
This territorial acquisition doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This president came to power during "the age of the common man"
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This early 19th century invention spurred the expansion of slavery westward from the Deep South
What is the cotton gin?
During the mid-1800s, this area supported high tariffs (taxes on imports) in an effort to protect manufacturers from foreign competition. **HINT Sectionalism**
What are the Northern states?
The British taking American sailors off of American ships and forcing them to serve in the British navy.
What is impressment?
This state gained its independence from Mexico, and waited nine years to be annexed as part of the United States
What is Texas?
This president authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The early 19th century belief that God stated it was God’s plan for America to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
President Andrew Jackson's policy towards American Indians was centered around the forced removal from their native lands to live on these.
What are reservations?
This famous battle was waged by a band of Texans that fought against a vastly superior force led by Santa Anna
What is The Alamo?
This state was admitted as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Patrick Henry are often referred to as this during pre-Revolutionary War times. **hint its a term used for those that wanted to completely break from Britain and start the US**
What is a Patriot?
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book inspired those in the northern abolitionist movement to continue to fight slavery **Remember its a BOOK**
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This term refers to the practice of rewarding political supporters with public offices after a presidential victory
What is the Spoils System?
The only branch of government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This territory was acquired through a treaty with Spain and required the United States to pay $5 million in claims by its settlers.
What is the Florida Purchase?
This Enlightenment philosopher directly influenced this quote from the Declaration of Independence... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Who is John Locke?
This newspaper fought against the idea of slavery by asserting that it goes against Christian principles.
What is The Liberator?
The forced removal of Cherokee people where they were forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1838-1840, with thousands of the dying on the way
What is the Trail of Tears?
This nation was defeated in the French and Indian War
What is France?
The land that was ceded through a treaty with the United Kingdom in 1846, which settled many boundary disputes.
What is the Oregon Territory?
This person is known for his negotiation of a Treaty of Alliance with France
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This pamphlet helped to spread the ideas of freedom and liberty to colonists, encouraging them to support breaking with Britain through the Revolutionary War.
What is Common Sense?
When South Carolina argued that sovereign states could nullify the Tariff of 1832 and other acts of Congress.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Where the American Revolution began when the Minutemen fired on the British troops.
Where is Lexington and Concord?