Land and Expansion
This 1803 transaction, negotiated with Napoleon Bonaparte, doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This President was the main supporter and enforcer of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Though often called a "second war of independence," this conflict ended in 1814 with the Treaty of Ghent.
What is the War of 1812?
This legislative attempt of 1820 prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30’ latitude line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This massive 363-mile waterway, completed between 1817 and 1825, connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie, spurring the growth of the Midwest.
What is the Erie Canal?
In this 1823 address, President Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere closed to future colonization by European powers.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This Shoshone woman served as an interpreter and guide for the Corps of Discovery.
Who is Sacagawea?
This American naval victory during the War of 1812 occurred on a Great Lake.
What is the Battle of Lake Erie?
The 1850 agreement passed a stricter version of this law, making it a federal responsibility to return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
In 1804, Thomas Jefferson ordered the Lewis and Clark expedition to recon these newly acquired lands.
What are the Louisiana Territories?
This Chief Justice authored the opinion for Marbury v. Madison, which gave the judicial branch equal power to the other two branches.
Who in Chief Justice John Marshall?
He was the Governor of New York and the biggest promoter of the Erie Canal construction.
Who is DeWitt Clinton?
Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" during this battle of the War of 1812.
The political shift marked by the 1828 election of Andrew Jackson, emphasizing the power of the "common man" and broadening voting (for white males), is known as this.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty established a clear border between the Louisiana Purchase and Spanish claims in the West and ceded this territory to the U.S.
What is Florida?
The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Taney, delivered a ruling in 1857 that stated African Americans were not citizens and that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This enslaved preacher led a revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831, which resulted in brutal reprisals and harsher slave codes across the South.
Who is Nat Turner?
This forced march of the Cherokee tribe, following the 1830 Indian Removal Act, resulted in the deaths of thousands.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The 1860 Presidential Election was a four-way contest between Lincoln, John Breckenridge, John Bell, and this Democrat who split the vote with Breckenridge.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This war (1846–1848) resulted in the U.S. gaining large amounts of territory, including California and Nevada, causing Mexico to lose more than half its territory.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This president ignored this Chief Justice John Marshall's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that the Native American tribes were sovereign regarding the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Along with Robert Livingston, this U.S. envoy negotiated the Louisiana Purchase deal with France.
Who is James Monroe?
The period of violence between pro- and anti-slavery forces in the mid-1850s, stemming from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, was known by this name.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This state was the first to secede from the Union immediately following Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860.
What is South Carolina?