The Jeffersonian Era
America grew in both size and prestige during the presidencies of James Madison, James Monroe and a Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Jeffersonian Era?
The act of freeing from bondage or slavery.
What is emancipation?
During a time of growing sectionalism Andrew Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new era of popular democracy.
What is the Age of Jackson?
The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France.
What happened in 1803?
Through settlement and war, the United States greatly expanded its boundaries during the mid-1800s.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The theory of government held that the people should control the government and that a simple government best suit the needs of the people
What is Jeffersonian Republicanism?
The ability of the Supreme Court to declare a law.
What is Judicial Review?
The marches in which the Cherokee people were forcibly removed from Georgia to the Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Texas establishes itself as a republic.
What happened in 1836?
The winner of the 1844 US presidential campaign.
Who was James K. Polk?
The practice of seizing Americans at sea and "impressing," or drafting them into the British Navy.
What is the British policy of impressment?
A pre-Civil war set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy.
Whats the American System?
Under these agreements, Maine was admitted as free state and Missouri as slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
John Quincy Adams became president of the U.S.
Who became president in 1824?
To force Texas to obey Mexican law, Santa Anna marched his army towards San Antonio.
What was the Texas Revolution?
The warning to all European powers not to interfere with affairs in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
To be marked by bribery.
What does it mean to be corrupt?
Jackson's ideal of political power for all classes.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
What happened in 1820?
This established the current borders of the contiguous 48 states.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
He seized control of the French government in 1799 and expanded French territory until his defeat at Waterloo in Belgium in 1815.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Supreme Court's power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
Under this law the Federal government provided funds to negotiate treaties that would force the Native Americans to move West.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Native Americans relocated in the Trail of Tears.
What happened during 1838-1839?
A route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, used by pioneers traveling to the Oregon Territory.
Whar is the Oregon Trail?