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Andrew Jackson
Texas
Utah
Manifest Destiny
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100

Name one of the Native American groups moved by Andrew Jackson.

What is Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, or Seminole?

100
On March 2, 1836, Texas declared itself independent of this country.
What is Mexico?
100
The founder of Mormonism.
Who is Joseph Smith?
100
The idea that the United States was destined to stretch from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100

The country that sold Florida to the U.S.

What is Spain?

200
Under his presidency, Jackson forced the Cherokee and other Indian nations to leave their homes and walk on a 1000 mile journey known as this.
What is The Trail of Tears?
200

The name of the treaty that gave US the Mexican cession (California & New Mexico)

What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? 

200
The city where Mormons first settled at.
What is Salt Lake City?
200
The treaty in which Spain gave up their claim to the Oregon Country.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
200

President Jackson's opposition to what bank forced it to close?

Bank of the United States

300
This law, passed when Jackson was president, authorized the removal of Indians from territory in the southern states and forced their resettlement west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
300

The reason why Mexico did not want Americans in Texas.

What is slavery?

300
After the founder of Mormonism was assassinated, this person took control of the Mormons.
Who is Brigham Young?
300

The United States was fighting with this country over Oregon.

What is Britain?

300

To add or attach?

Annex

400

This is the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.

What is the spoils system

400
This person, at the time, was a dictator who led Mexican troops to fight the Texans.
Who was Santa Anna?
400
This is the trail the Mormons took to get to Utah.
What is The Mormon Trail?
400

The first territory acquired under Manifest Destiny.

What is Louisiana?

400
The guy who negotiated the Treaty (He was also the Secretary of State under U.S. President James Monroe) with the Spanish foreign minister Luis de Onís y González-Vara, during the reign of King Ferdinand VII.
What is John Quincy Adams?
500

This party was created by Jackson's supporters that was used between elections to build a new political organization.

What is the Democratic Party?

500
The site of a famous battle in San Antonio where Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie fought Mexican troops for 12 days before losing.
What was the Alamo?
500

The Mormons moved to this state due to religious persecution.

What is Utah?

500
A president who was focused on making Oregon part of the United States.
Who is James K. Polk?
500

This land acquisition (through payment) was sought after by the American government to place more track for the transcontinental railroad

What is Gadsden Purchase?