Manifest Destiny & Expansion
This 1803 deal doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana purchase
This principle allows courts to declare laws unconstitutional.
Judicial review
This religious movement sparked abolition and women’s rights reforms.
The second great awakening
Eli Whitney’s invention that increased demand for enslaved labor.
Cotton Gin
Florida’s first military governor.
Andrew jackson
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest destiny
The Chief Justice who established judicial review
John Marshall
The 1848 meeting that began the women’s suffrage movement.
Seneca falls convention
The 1820 agreement that tried to balance slave and free states.
The Missouri compromise
The decade of the First Seminole War.
1830
Lewis and Clark’s mission focused on this purpose.
Mapping and observing new lands and peoples
Gibbons v. Ogden confirmed Congress’s power over this area.
Interstate commerce
The key document written at Seneca Falls.
Declaration of Sentiments
The latitude line that limited slavery northward
36°30
Term for Monroe’s period of unity and low partisanship
Era of good feelings
This canal connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, revolutionizing trade
Erie canal
Worcester v. Georgia recognized this principle regarding Native nations.
Tribal sovereignty
This speech by Sojourner Truth in 1851 became an icon of women’s equality.
“Ain’t I a Woman?”
The free state admitted alongside Missouri.
Maine
This case backed Congress’s power over interstate commerce.
Gibbons v Ogden
Thousands of these immigrants worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Chinese laborers
This principle is threatened when court rulings are ignored
Rule of law
Name one reform inspired by religion that aimed to curb alcohol use.
Temperance movement
This war (1812–1815) reinforced American independence and national pride.
War of 1812
Two major issues shaping U.S. politics between 1815–1828.
Federal vs. State power, and Slavery