Vocabulary
Having the right to vote, is known as...
What is suffrage?
He was the favorite son of Tennessee.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
In early spring, families would leave Independence, Missouri on wagon trains on a route called this...
What is the Oregon Trail?
This was a huge area west of the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Oregon Country?
He was the favorite son of Massachusetts?
Who is John Quincy Adams?
When Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams formulated a deal to win the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson would call this...
Hint: pg 250
What is a corrupt bargain?
What were the first fur trappers looking for in the Oregon Country?
What are beaver and other fur-bearing animals
In this event, a group of American men drove the Mexican troops out of Northern California.
What is the Bear Flag Republic?
The Seminoles are located in this state.
What is Florida?
What did California do to discourage foreigners from mining for gold?
What is tax them?
Gold seekers were given this name in reference to the year they arrived in California.
What are the forty-niners?
This religious group would settle in Salt Lake, Utah after being kicked out of all other states.
What are the Mormons?
After the height of the gold rush and before the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese men would help build this future mood of transportation.
What are the railroads?
This treaty required Mexico to cede or give up, all of California and New Mexico to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The belief that it was God's will for America to expand to the West, is known as...
What is Manifest Destiny?
This line marked the edge of the white settlement.
What is the frontier?
These men would use their knowledge of the terrain to help settlers make it through the mountains.
Who are mountain men?
Successful Chinese men would open these businesses in what is now Chinatown in San Francisco.
What are restaurants and laundries?
What kind of climate did the Great Plains region have?
Hint: pg 285
What is dry and not suitable for farming?
When Mexico gave up its lands to the United States to end the Mexican-American War, this is known as the...
Hint: pg 306
What is the Mexican Cession?
Cession means--> formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state?
Awarding government jobs to friends and supporters and firing those not associated with your political party, is known as...
What is the spoils system?
Andrew Jackson may have been the president to sign the Indian Removal Act but this president forced Native tribes to leave their ancestral lands.
Hint: pg 276
Who is President Van Buren
In this court ruling, Georgia did not have the authority to enforce its laws within Indian territory.
What is the Worcester v. Georgia
Which is NOT a cause of the Mexican-American War?
A) The United States annexes Texas
B) Mexico and Texas dispute over land
C) Andrew Jackson favored the annexation of Texas
What is letter C?
If Texas became part of the United States (annexed) would it have been a free or a slave state?
What is a slave state?