Manifest Destiny/ Slave Trade
What is the belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Which state was admitted as a free state when Missouri was admitted as a slave state.
What is Maine.
What was the economy of the North based off of?
What is Manufacturing.
What is the significance of the McCulloch v. Maryland Supreme Court case? (1819)
What is the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to create the Second Bank of the United States and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the National Bank.
Define Spoils System.
What is the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.
Define the Indian Removal Act
What is the law that authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is the federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
What was the economy of the South based off of?
What is agriculture.
What is the significance of the Worcester vs. Georgia Supreme Court case? (1832)
What is the Cherokee Nation was a separate political entity that could not be regulated by the state, Georgia's license law was unconstitutional and Worcester's convection should be overturned.
BUT Jackson ignored this and issued the Indian Removal Act.
How much space did slaves have to themselves during the Middle Passage?
What is 4 square feet. (2x2 area)
Explain the three ways the United States achieved Manifest Destiny.
What is through Conquest, Purchase and Treaties.
Define Popular Sovereignty.
What is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power.
Describe TWO advantages the North had over the South.
What is superior leadership in Abraham Lincoln, Greater Population, industrial power, more money and better railroads.
What is the significance of the Gibbons vs. Ogden Supreme Court case? (1824)
What is a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.
What was the Trail of Tears?
What is a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west that had been designated as Indian Territory.
Why did the United States Government choose Oklahoma and the Midwest as the destination for Native Americans.
What is the land in the Midwest was unfit for agriculture, which is the reason for why the United States Government wanted the Southern tribes land.
What was the Missouri Compromise? What is an act that was designed to allow Missouri to be a slave state so that the two sides would remain equal.
What is an act that was designed to allow Missouri to be a slave state so that the two sides would remain equal.
Describe TWO advantages the South had over the North.
What is outstanding military leaders, strong motivation, fighting on home ground and superior outdoors skills.
Define Judicial Review?
What is review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? What was the significance of this book?
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book is an anti-slavery novel written to show the North the atrocities of slavery.
What political reasons were behind the Union not wanting the practice of slavery to be legal.
What is slavery led to an increase in Southern states populations which affected representation in Government.
What did the North get in the Compromise of 1850? what did the South receive?
What the North received: California admitted as a free state, and the slave trade is prohibited from Washington D.C.
What the South received: No slavery restrictions in Utah or New Mexico territories and the Fugitive Slave Law.
Who was the President of the Union? Who was the President of the Confederacy?
What is Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
When did John Marshall serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States?
What is from the years 1801 until 1835.
What is the significance of the Dred Scott vs. Sanford Supreme Court case? Why did Dred Scott believe he should be a free man?
What is slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts. He lived in a free state for an extended amount of time, giving him legal status as a free man.