Andrew Jackson
System that put in friends into office
Spoils System
Dorethea Dix fought for what group of people to be treated better
mentally ill and prisoners
act that led to the moving of Indians to Oklahoma
Indian Removal Act
Idea that America should expand from sea to sea
Manifest Destiny
only president for 31 days- died of pneumonia after giving longest inauguration speech, hero at Battle of Tippecanoe
Harrison
Set up by Jackson to kill the national bank
Pet Banks
Word that means to limit alcohol consumption early 1800s term for Prohibition
Temperance
Called the Bear Flag Republic
California
What state was annexed and thus was one of the causes of the Mexican War?
Texas
A very high tariff under Jackson that led to a nullification crisis
Tariff of Abomiantions
1848 Women's Meeting set up by Stanton and Mott advocating a women's right to vote, own land
Seneca Falls
Where Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis were killed in 1836 fighting for Texas' independence?
Alamo
President during the Mexican War and was from North Carolina
James K. Polk
Party created just to oppose Andrew Jackson
the Whig Party
Who was the reformer that called for better educated teachers and giving more training to teachers
Horace Mann
Made himself a dictator of Mexico and the leader at the Alamo for Mexico
Santa Anna
What two states were ceded to the U.S. as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
New Mexico and California
Became president after Jackson and was Jackson's Secretary of State
Martin Van Buren
Henry Clay came up with this system that called for internal improvements, protective tariffs and national bank
American System
Famous abolitionist, was once a slave and wrote an autobiography
Frederick Douglass
Name of Purchase in 1853 in which we paid 10 million for territory bordering the southwestern U.S.
Gadsden Purchase