Industrial Revolution
First used to pump and remove water from mining holes, this invention will begin the industrial revolution in 1769.
What is the steam engine?
Andrew Jackson used this power more than any other President.
What is the veto?
36°30’ parallel line will be dividing line with free states north and slave states south. Maine admitted as free state and Missouri admitted as slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Forced American Indians to leave their native ancestral land to land west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
God-given right to spread across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
First successfully run in 1825, this invention was used to transport goods and people.
What is the locomotive?
White settlers wanted more land for farming and new settlements.
What problem did Andrew Jackson face during his presidency?
Federal government enforced law that required slaves be returned to southern owners, bystanders were required to help return slaves, and accused slaves could not testify in their own defense.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Cherokee Indians suffered thousands of deaths on this long, sorrowful march from North Carolina to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Reduced tariffs, created independent treasury, acquired Oregon Territory, and obtained California and New Mexico.
Who is James Polk?
An electrical system of networks that could transmit messages simultaneously over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
Andrew Jackson thought the Second Bank of the United States would use money to oppose his reelection in 1836.
What problem did Andrew Jackson face during his presidency?
Resulted in creating more tension between free states and slave states during westward expansion.
What is the long-term effect of the Missouri Compromise?
Land in the south was opened to white settlers, expansion of slavery, and long-term impoverishment of the American Indians.
What effects did the Indian Removal Act have on the United States?
United States opposes any new European colonies in South America and, in exchange, the United States stays out of European wars.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Using this invention allowed Henry Ford to build cars faster.
What is mass production?
Private bank loyal to President Jackson and began printing lots of money creating high inflation and an economic depression.
What is a pet bank?
As the Era of Good Feelings ends, states wanted to have more rights over the United States' policies including slavery.
What is sectionalism?
The costliest war ever waged to gain Indian lands.
What is the Second Seminole War?
Oregon Territory acquired, Texas annexation, and California and New Mexico ceded by Mexico
How did Manifest Destiny become a reality?
This invention allowed doctors to provide medical treatment without having to restrain the patient.
What is anesthesia?
No longer in office as President, Jackson is blamed for this economic disaster lasting 6 years.
What is the Panic of 1837?
None of the territory acquired after the Mexican-American War would be open to slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The imaginary line between civilized and uncivilized land created a long-time dispute over land between white settlers and American Indians.
What is the frontier?
While getting more land increased the economic development of the nation, it created more tension with American Indians.
What is the long-term effect of westward expansion?