Chapter 8
Ended the War of 1812
What is the Battle of New Orleans
Church whose congregants are called Mormons
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
A network that provided food and shelter to enslaved people trying to get to free states
What is the underground railroad
The state that was admitted to the Union as a free state under the compromise of 1850
What is California
Considered to be the first time the United States declared war on another country
What is the War of 1812
A warning to European powers to not interfere with colonization in the United States
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Who is Harriet Tubman
Policy that left the decision about slavery up to the state's inhabitants
What is popular sovereignty
Believed in a centralized government, national bank, hierarchies, commercial trade, and a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists
The Primary state involved in the nullification crisis
What is South Carolina
What is the Amistad
Landmark decision that said that the constitution did not extend American citizenship to Black people
What is the Dred Scott decision
Made it so that laws passed by congress could be declared unconstitutional
Marbury vs. Madison
Manifest destiny claimed that the United States had a _______ right to expand westward
What is divine
The deadliest slave rebellion in history; this event strengthened the abolitionist movement and intensified the sectional crisis leading up the the civil war
Nat Turner's rebellion
The Act that repealed the Missouri compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Opposed the Louisiana Purchase
Who are the Federalists
Authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for their removal from ancestral lands east of the Mississippi river
What is the Indian Removal Act
An act of resistance to slavery that was inspired by the Haitian Revolution
Denmark Vesey's conspiracy
Describe the fugitive slave law
Mandated the return of escaped enslaved people to their owners, even if they had reached free states.