Manifest
Destiny 1
Destiny 1
This is the belief the the U.S. should expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest destiny?
When a country takes another territory
What is annexation?
the belief that states had the right to void or cancel a law that they found unconstitutional
what is nullification?
conflict from 1846-1848, Mexico did not want to sell Polk California and New Mexico. It was caused by Mexico firing on American troops along the Rio Grande in defense of their territory.
What was Mexican-American War?
when the United States government forced Native Americans to move from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma
What is the Trail Of Tears?
this is how Texas became a part of the US
Texas Revolution
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
What was The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
a specific tax on an imported product
What is a tariff?
secondary land acquisition from Mexico in what is today Arizona and New Mexico for the railroad, after the end of the Mexican American War
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
Highly contentious election over the power of the popular vote and electoral vote, one candidate gave his votes to another for a political job in Congress. Jackson used this to win the election of 1828
What is the Corrupt Bargain? or what is the election of 1824?
The private government-wide bank of the United States that collects taxes, issues paper money, and lends money to the government.
What is the Bank of the United States?
A state leaving the United States
What is secession?
Putting the interests of one region over those of the whole nation, only focusing on one side's issue instead of the entire picture
What is sectionalism?
Which 5 tribes were affected by Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act?
Who are the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, and Creek
What charter did Andrew Jackson not sign?
What is the Bank of the United States?
(1803) a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. bought about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
Polk's campaign slogan regarding Oregon
What was 54 -40 or fight?
Forced march of Native Americans from the southeastern US to the West
What is the Trail of Tears?
Mexico opened land for American colonization in this future state
What was Texas?
What is Jackson expanded white male suffrage? (any answer that mentions more white men could vote)
A group that moved west to Utah and Arizona to escape religious persecution
Who are the Mormons?
The year Texas joined the United States
What is 1845?
A government run by the people. Republics are a type of democracy, where people vote for their leaders.
What is democracy?
The president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny
Who is President Polk?
President Jackson elected his supporters and peers instead of political officials to work in his White House, this was
What is the Spoils System?