Early Expansion
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
American settlers in Texas fought for independence against this country in 1836.
What is Mexico?
The idea that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand across North America, which fueled tensions leading to war with Mexico.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1812–1815 conflict grew out of maritime disputes, British support for Native resistance, and American expansionist ambitions.
What is the War of 1812?
Passed in 1830, this federal act authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their eastern homelands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson gained popularity by presenting himself as a representative of this group of everyday Americans.
What is the "common man"?
The federal government cleared Native lands in the 19th century to make way for white settlers and this major transportation network.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The primary goal of federal Native American boarding schools was to force children to do this to American culture.
What is assimilate?
These two immigrant groups provided the majority of the labor used to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are Chinese and Irish immigrants?
President Thomas Jefferson sent these two explorers to map the newly acquired territory and investigate a route to the Pacific.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The famous San Antonio mission where Texan defenders made a historic, though fatal, stand during the revolution.
What is the Alamo?
The U.S. President who declared war on Mexico in 1846 following border clashes in Texas.
Who is James Polk?
A primary cause of the War of 1812 was this British practice of forcing American sailors into the Royal Navy.
What is impressment?
The devastating journey made by Native Americans as they were forcibly moved west, resulting in thousands of deaths.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Jackson supported "universal manhood suffrage," which expanded voting rights by eliminating this requirement for white men.
What are property requirements (or economic status)?
The 1890 tragedy in South Dakota that marked the final major military clash between the U.S. military and Native Americans.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Richard Henry Pratt’s infamous motto that summarized the assimilation philosophy behind schools like Carlisle.
What is "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man"?
Millions of Irish immigrants fled to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s to escape starvation caused by this catastrophe.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
The Lewis and Clark Expedition had many objectives, including mapping the territory, identifying resources, and establishing relations with Native Americans, but its main goal was to?
What is find a waterway to the Pacific?
What was the main result of the Texas Revolution in 1836?
What is Texas Independence?
Signed in 1848, this treaty officially ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The U.S. attempted to expand into this territory during the War of 1812 but was repelled by British forces.
What is Canada?
The main goal of Indian Removal was to clear ancestral Native land to make room for these people.
What are white settlers?
President Jackson's expansionist policies heavily favored opening new Western territory for these two main purposes.
What are westward expansion and settler agriculture?
The 1876 battle where Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated General Custer and his 7th Cavalry.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The famous Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania attended by Lakota chief Luther Standing Bear in 1879.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
This made westward migration easier, stimulated industry, and accelerated the transformation of the American frontier.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Louisiana Purchase increased U.S. access to this major river, which had served as an important western boundary.
What is the Mississippi River?
One major cause of tension leading to the revolution was Mexico's ban on this practice, which American settlers relied on.
What is slavery?
Through the treaty, the U.S. acquired land that would become New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and this future Pacific state.
What is California?
The general whose overwhelming victory at New Orleans launched him to national fame and political power.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Native American tribes east of this major river were forced to move into territory designated west of it.
What is the Mississippi River?
Signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, this federal law facilitated Native American removal, opening the way for white settlement, plantation agriculture, and the pursuit of gold on Native lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The 1864 attack in Colorado where U.S. troops slaughtered a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
The 1887 law that broke up tribal reservation land into individual family plots to eliminate communal ownership
What is the Dawes Act?
The 1862 act granted 160 acres of free public land to citizens who agreed to farm and improve it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Shoshone woman who served as an interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark across the Western frontier.
Who was Sacagawea?
Texas was not immediately admitted into the United States after winning independence because doing so would have upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states in which institution?
What is Congress/
Just one year after acquiring California in the treaty, this event in 1849 caused a massive population boom in the territory.
What is the California Gold Rush?
The Battle of New Orleans was unique because it was actually fought after this treaty had already been signed.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
The Supreme Court case (Worcester v. Georgia) ruled in favor of this tribe's sovereignty, though President Jackson refused to enforce it.
What are the Cherokee?
In 1832, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Georgia could not impose its laws on Cherokee territory. President Andrew Jackson's administration failed to enforce this decision. Name the Supreme Court case.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Battles like Little Bighorn, Sand Creek, and Wounded Knee demonstrated the government's willingness to use this to secure land.
What is violence (or military force)?
Under the Reservation Policy, the federal government forced tribes onto designated lands while systematically violating tribal self-governance, also known by this term for supreme authority and self-rule.
What is tribal sovereignty?
Anti-immigrant sentiment held by native-born Americans who opposed foreign groups like Irish Catholics and the Chinese.
What is Nativism?