Age of Jackson
This general led the fighting for the United States at the Battle of New Orleans.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Mass migration from Europe and China, boomtowns; California became a state, westward expansion.
What was the California Gold Rush of 1849?
Southern plantation owners.
Who were people that wanted to retain slavery and expand it to the west?
Worcester v. Georgia
Which court case provided for the principles of Judicial Review?
The Annexation of Texas by the United States, the disputed territory and the border between the two countries.
What were some events that contributed to the Mexican American War?
creation of fake money, Inflation, unemployment, loss of property and jobs.
What were some consequences of President Jackson moving federal funds to state banks?
The main trail used for military use and a trade route to Mexico.
What was the Santa Fe Trail?
Henry Clay proposed a law that would keep a balance of slave and free states, allow slavery only in Missouri and prohibiting slavery south of the 36 degree 30' parallel.
What was the Compromise of 1820?
The production of cotton increased and so did the demand for more slaves, which influenced political decisions and increase social tension.
What was the cotton gin?
It was America's divine right and duty to expand westward.
What was the concept of Manifest Destiny?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830,
What law was passed by President Jackson that forced native Americans to move to Oklahoma?
It improved the transportation of goods and people across the country.
What was the expansion of the railroad system in the 1800's?
A law that made the Fugitive Slave Act stronger, made California a state and gave new states popular sovereignty.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This political party was formed in 1854 as direct opposition to the increase demand for slavery by Democrats.
What was the Republicans Party?
Growth of factories and urbanization of cities in the north.
What were major effects of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
The northern economies got stronger, the southern economies were hurt, South Carolina wanted to secede from the Union, and they didn't recognize federal laws they disliked.
What was a result of tariffs and the Nullification Crisis?
Merchants.
Who were people that got rich selling mining equipment to miners?
A law created to allow residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide to have slavery based on popular sovereignty.
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854?
The Supreme Court said that they could not free slaves because slaves were property and not citizens.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
Religious revivals, a push to abolish slavery, social reform and individual salvation.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Common white men were allowed to vote, states changed their constitutions to improve the voting process, and more people were involved in government.
What was Jacksonian Democracy?
Sutter's Mill.
Where was gold first discovered in California?
Southern states seceded from the Union after this event because they thought Abraham Lincoln was going to abolish slavery.
What was the election of 1860?
Rice, cotton, tobacco, indigo and sugar cane.
What were the main cash crops in the south in the 1800s?
Ashes and animal fat.
What was soap?