Expansion
With the _____ ______ in 1803, the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.
Louisiana Purchase
(1807) A general Embargo that made all exports from the United States illegal?
Embargo Act
What was the 1812 War?
The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain began formally on June 18, 1812. It involved about 60,000 U.S. Army forces supported by 470,000 militia and volunteer troops. To end the war, the treaty of Ghent was signed 24 December 1814, however another battle was fought 8 January 1815 at New Orleans.
Samual Morris invented _____.
The Telegraph
U.S. foreign policy regarding European countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
Monroe Doctrine
This idea was the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.
Manifest Destiny
What is Marbury vs Madison?
A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
which war was between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River?
Mexican-American War
American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
Andrew Jackson
Who invented the polished steel plow in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois.
John Deere
The measures provided for the admission of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South.
Missouri Compromise
The state of Maryland had attempted to impede the operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. (court case)
McCulloch v. Maryland
Battle of Tippecanoe
Fought on November 7, 1811, in what is now Battle Ground, Indiana, between American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American warriors associated with the Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
Who was known as “The Father of Agriculture” and was an American inventor responsible for the production, marketing and distribution of the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
What was the Hartford Convention?
New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power.
Under which president did the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America? (Annexation of Texas)
James K. Polk
The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
Was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States, killing all of the Texian defenders.
Battle of the Alamo
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
He was a leading transcendentalist and Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
What was the name the abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831?
The Liberator
American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.
Wilmot Proviso
The Treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico).
The Adam-Onis Treaty
Treaty of Ghent
Battle of the Alamo
Who was Daniel Webster
He won renown as the defender of the Constitution by denouncing nullification when South Carolina adopted it. He also held that no law was needed to prevent the further extension of slavery when he urged the Compromise of 1850 as a Union-saving measure.
Which election was contested by four members of the Democratic-Republican Party, no candidate won a majority of the electoral vote, necessitating an election in the House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Election of 1824