Vocab 1
Area of land set apart for a tribe or tribes.
Reservation
A tax on imported goods.
Tariff
The idea that the United States was destined to span the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Manifest Destiny
Who did President Adams make his Secretary of State?
Henry Clay
What was the journey called for the forced removal of native Americans?
Trail of tears
Covered Wagon
Prairie Schooner
To take possession of.
Annex
A person who arrived in California in 1849 to search for gold.
Forty-niners
What was the idea that the United States was destined to span the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
Manifest destiny
In 1830, President Jackson pushed what act through congress?
Indian Removal Act
Hostility, harassment, and other ill-treatment.
Persecution
A town that grows very quickly.
Boomtown
What animal skin was in great demand in Europe?
Beaver.
What was the native American tribe living in Florida?
The Seminoles.
What were people in search of when exploring California after 1848?
Riches such as gold.
A Texan of Latin American, often Mexican, Descent.
Tejanos
Person who travels to promote his or her religion.
Missionary
Florida was a Spanish territory until?
1821
What did the panic of 1837 lead to?
A depression, a severe economic depression
Who has a scheme to sell tools to miners in order to make himself money?
Sam Brannan
A private citizen who tries to enforce the law or punish suspected lawbreakers.
Vigilantes
A rule-governed, hierarchical system in which non elected officials carry out laws.
Bureaucracy
Who headed a rebellion that led Mexico into becoming a republic?
General Antonio Lopez and Gauelupe Victoria.
What did Andrew Jackson promise for all Americans?
“Equal protection and equal benefits”
What was the slogan referring to the line of latitude they believed should be the nation’s northern border in Oregon?
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight.”