This established the Court's power of judicial review, which gives the judicial branch the power to determine what the law is and declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
Jackson opposed the Second Bank of the United States because he felt it gave the federal government too much power and agreed with small farmers who believed it only helped these people.
What is the wealthy?
100
The West focused on internal improvements such as these.
What are better roads and water transportation?
100
He worked to reform education in the United States.
Who is Horace Mann?
100
Members of this included Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, Edmund Randolph, and Alexander Hamilton.
What is the First Cabinet?
200
This closed American ports to British ships and banned American ships from sailing to foreign ports.
What is the Embargo Act?
200
Southern farmers wanted their land in states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia in order to grown crops such as cotton.
What are Native Americans?
200
This was a 2,000-mile-long journey that stretched west from Independence, Missouri and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
She fought for women's rights, especially the right to vote.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
200
After serving two terms as president, he decided to retire.
Who is George Washington?
300
Under this the United States gained control of Florida and gave up its claim to Texas.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
300
President Jackson called for Native Americans in the eastern U.S. to be relocated, which resulted in this for the Cherokee.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
This slogan referred to the north latitude line to which Americans wanted their northern territory to extend.
What is "Fifty-four forty or fight"?
300
As settlers began moving west this issue arose and, in time, was resolved by the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is slavery?
300
In his farewell address, Washington warned against making these and burdening future generations with debt.
What are foreign alliances?
400
She helped guide an expedition west to the Pacific Ocean through the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Sacagawea?
400
This is the practice of giving government jobs to political supporters of government officials.
What is the spoils system?
400
In Gast's painting, "Manifest Destiny" the woman represents America moving west, bringing technology such as these wires to the new lands.
What are telegraph (wires)?
400
The Missouri Compromise settled the conflict that had arisen over slavery when Missouri applied for this.
What is statehood?
400
These gave the federal government the power to arrest anyone who criticized the government, including newspaper editors and journalists.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
Shawnee chief who believed Native Americans needed to unite in order to fight white American settlers.
Who is Tecumseh?
500
During the Jacksonian Era some states expanded voting rights for white men by eliminating these qualifications.
What are property qualifications or the need to own property?
500
This is the belief that it was America's obvious fate to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy.
What is manifest destiny?
500
The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided the remainder of this into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska, and allowed the question of slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
500
In this, France demanded an apology for harsh words John Adams spoke against their nation as well as a bribe and a loan.