Presidents
The Battle of the Alamo had two participants fighting.
Who are the Texans and Mexicans.
These two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise.
What are Maine and Missouri?
This man used his influence in the House of Representatives to get John Quincy Adams elected as president in 1824.
Who is Henry Clay?
President Jacksons unofficial group of advisors.
What is the kitchen cabinet?
This man stood up to President Jackson regarding the Tariff of 1828.
Who is John Calhoun.
Cause of the War of 1812.
What is impressment/British arming the Native Americans?
Martin Van Buren faced severe economic problems that led to disaster.
This man was president of the Bank of the U.S. and was hated by President Jackson.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
Nullification.
What is if the Constitution had been established by 13 sovereign states, then those states must still be sovereign and each of these sovereign states had the right to determine if an act is unconstitutional. If the states did NOT have this right, then a majority in the federal government might trample on the rights of the minority.
This man was the real author of the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is John Quincy Adams.
Conditions that Santa Anna set down before the Anglos could live in Mexico (Texas).
What is no slavery, learn Spanish, Convert to Catholicism?
These men were agents who handled the Mexican land grants.
What are empresarios?
This man led the Anglos to begin migrating toward what is today Texas.
Who is Moses Austin (Stephen Austin)
Secession.
What is a formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
The presidential election of 1824 was given a nasty name by Andrew Jackson.
What is a corrupt bargain?
Discuss the topic of Texas admitted to the Union in 1845 and then had a dispute with the border of Mexico.
What is Mexico said the border ended at the Nueces River while Texans claimed the border extended to the Rio Grande River?
Due to growing numbers and wanting more political autonomy the Anglos started this.
What is the Texas Revolution.
The man who ran for president in 1824 and had a stroke.
Who is William Crawford?
This is a bill that Jackson tried to urge Congress to pass. It allowed the federal government to use the military against South Carolina if state authorities resisted paying proper duties.
What is the Force Bill?
This man was president of the U.S. during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
Winner of the Battle of the Alamo.
What is Mexico?
The name of the proviso that would have prohibited slavery from any land won from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This man was forced to sign the Treaty of Velasco which granted independence to Texas.
Who is Santa Anna?
The belief by Americans that they were ordained to spread across the continent - that they had a God-given right and duty to do so.
What is Manifest Destiny?