Chapter 14: President Thomas Jefferson
________ ______ is the power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
Judicial Review
___________ is patriotism; a sense of national identity.
Nationalism
Who became Mexico's new president in 1833?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The ______ ______ of 1846 reset the borders between the U.S. and British-controlled Canada.
Oregon Treaty
What is the lowest class on a ship?
Steerage
Who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel for "ruining his reputation?"
Aaron Burr
What is the importance of regional and state identity?
Sectionalism
The Texan 180-person volunteer militia occupied an abandoned mission called the _____ from February 23 to March 6, 1836.
Alamo
President James Polk informed Congress that Mexico had attacked U.S. troops on U.S. soil without being provoked, leading Congress to declare the _______-________ ___.
Mexican-American War
______________ is when a foreigner becomes a citizen.
Naturalization
What is to formally withdraw from an alliance or association?
Secede
A demilitarized border between the U.S. and Canada was created at the ____ ________, stretching as far west as the Rocky Mountains
49th Parallel
What did Sam Houston's troops shout when they ambushed Santa Anna's army at their camp near the San Jacinto River?
"Remember the Alamo!"
_______ (ranches) were large parcels of land owned by wealthy rancheros and managed by ________, or cowboys.
Ranchos, Vaqueros
What were FIVE major movements that occurred during the "Age of Reform?"
Temperance (banning alcohol), Prison-Reform, Education, Utopian Societies, Workers' Rights
In October 1803, the _________ ________ extended the borders of the U.S. to the Rocky Mountains.
Louisiana Purchase
What is the right to vote called?
Suffrage
What does it mean to Annex a state?
Attach or add on
What is something that is ceded, or given up?
Cession
The antislavery movement of the 1830s was known as _________.
Abolitionism
What is a government order prohibiting commercial ships sailing into or out of its ports?
Embargo
What president died in office from pneumonia, which also happened to be the shortest presidency?
William Henry Harrison
What militia was created by Texas to guard the border?
Texas Rangers
In January of 1848, James Marshall, a carpenter building a sawmill near the Sacramento River, discovered ____.
Gold
_____ couldn't vote; most weren't educated; and they didn't receive equal pay for equal work.
Women