Westward Expansion
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson completed this real estate deal with France, more than doubling the size of the United States for roughly $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Issued in 1823, this foreign policy declaration warned European powers that North and South America was closed to future colonization and imperial interference.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This region of the United States benefitted the most from moving to a factory system.
What is the North?
During the Jacksonian Era, voting expanded significantly across the nation because most states eliminated this specific requirement for white male voters.
What is property?
As the United States rapidly expanded westward, this single issue in the western territories caused the most intense political friction between the North and South.
What is slavery?
This 19th-century cultural belief held that the United States was divinely ordained to expand westward across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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What is judicial review?
Completed in 1825, this 363-mile artificial waterway connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes through New York, granting access to East Coast good to western farmers.
What is the Erie Canal?
Passed by Congress in 1830, this federal legislation authorized the exchange of unsettled western territory in Oklahoma for native homelands inside southeastern state borders.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
In the South, there was a dramatic surge in due to this.
What is a the cotton gin?
On May 10, 1869, the final golden spike was driven at this Utah location to complete the transcontinental railway."
What is the Promontory, Utah?
The Monroe Doctrine targeted this entire geographic half of the globe to insulate newly independent Latin American republics from European reconquest.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
The cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, revolutionized the agricultural economy of the American South by making it easier to clean what?
What is cotton?
The tragic forced march of thousands of Native Americans from their traditional lands to designated "Indian Territory" in modern-day Oklahoma earned this somber name.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The goal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise was designed specifically to maintain a balance between these two groups of states in Congress.
What is Slave States and Free States?
Built largely by immigrant laborers, this massive infrastructure project connected the continent when the final "Golden Spike" was driven in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is European Influence?
This was caused by the transition to steam power, factories, and mass production.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This controversial patronage practice, popularized under Andrew Jackson, involved rewarding political party loyalists and campaign supporters with federal civil service appointments.
What is the Spoils System?
To preserve the political balance in the Senate in 1820, this agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
These two primary immigrant groups dug tunnels, blasted rock, and laid track for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines.
This court case established that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, overriding conflicting statutes passed by Congress.
What is Marbury v Madison?
With the rise of the factory system and interchangeable parts, American industry was no longer dependent on these specialized workers.
Who are skilled craftsmen?
Besides exposure, this was the cause of death of many of the Native Americans (including the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Seminole peoples) forced to travel on the "Trail of Tears."
What is disease?
This time period refers to the historical period directly before the Civil War, from 1800 to 1860.
What is the Antebellum Era?