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What did the Indian Removal act do?
Passed by Congress under the Jackson administration, this act removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to an "Indian Territory" where they would be "permanently" housed.
What was the notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific?
Manifest destiny
How much does the US owe Mexico?
$15 million
What was the outcome of the war of 1812?
US proved it could protect itself, and we gained A LOT of land from British in North America.
What was the low point for the U.S. during the War of 1812 when the British stormed the nation's capital and lay fire to much of it?
Invasion of Washington D.C. (1814)
What was the wounded Knee Massacre?
Occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. It was the last major armed conflict between the U.S. government and the Plains Indians and marked the end of Native American armed resistance to the reservation system.
The event is described as a massacre because the U.S. Army indiscriminately opened fire on a largely disarmed Lakota band, killing men, women, and children.
What was the transcontinental Railroad?
Railroad connecting eats and west coast (central Pacific and union Pacific) used Chinese and Irish immigrant workers
What Treaty Officially ended the M/A war?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
What caused the war of 1812?
Existing tensions & British soldiers were kidnapping Americans to use as sailors & US wanted more land, British didn't like that
Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.
Lewis and Clark
What was the Carlisle Boarding School?
The first U.S. off-reservation boarding school for Native American children, founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to forcibly assimilate them into American culture.
What was the Homestead act?
enabled U.S. citizens to claim free public land, requiring them to live on, build on, and farm 160 acres for five years to gain title to the property.
Causes of M/A war?
After Texas revolution, Mexico refuses to agree on the designated border, U.S. is like uh-uh no you did not so then the war happens to finalize land, and because US wants more land.
What was the Battle of New Orleans?
A battle during the War of 1812 where the British army attempted to take New Orleans. Due to the foolish frontal attack, Jackson defeated them, which gave him an enormous popularity boost.
Significance Battle of Baltimore (1814)
American battle during war of 1812 to protect Baltimore during which Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
Event at which Colonel John Chivington and his troops attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory; killed over 150 inhabitants, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.
What was signed on June 15, 1846, resolved the boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain by setting the border at the 49th parallel, ceding Vancouver Island and its coastal islands to Great Britain?
Oregon Treaty (1846)
Order of Texas conflict?
Manifest destiny, Texas Revolution, M-A War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Gold rush
What was the name of the treaty that ended the war?
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Who was Andrew Jackson and what did he do?
The seventh President of the United States, who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans. He increased the presidential powers while also passing the Indian Removal Act.
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Also known as "Custer's Last Stand," was a decisive Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho victory over the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment.
(Partially N/A) What was the Dawes Act?
A U.S. federal law that broke up Native American tribal reservations into individually owned plots of land, aiming to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream society by forcing them into private land ownership and agriculture
What was the decided boarder?
The Rio Grande River
What did Jackson appeal to in his elections?
Representing the "Common Man"
Who coined the term "Manifest Destiny"?
John O'Sullivan