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The institution of slavery increased, as well as the number of slaves in the country, as an unintended result of this invention.
What is the cotton gin?
This is what you call someone who wanted to abolish slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
Andrew Jackson rose to fame after winning this major battle in the War of 1812.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Country that sold the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson.
What is France?
Contains the Great Plains, which are a part of a major territory that doubled the USA in size overnight.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
The law forcefully removed the "five civilized tribes" west of the Mississippi River into modern day Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
"To the victor goes the spoils" highlights the idea behind this system implemented during Jackson's presidency.
What is the Spoils System?
Traveled the Louisiana Territory alongside York, and most famously, Sacagawea.
Who are Lewis & Clark?
This revolution eventually led to the purchase of Louissiana by the USA.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Andrew Jackson created the political party that fought against the Whig Party in the USA.
What is the Democrat Party?
This crisis saw southern states attempt to refuse to follow a federal law that they felt disproportionately affected them.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
What is the Mississippi River?
Leader of a famous slave rebellion in Virginia during Andrew Jackson's time as president.
Who is Nat Turner?
This court case was argued in the Supreme Court to establish that Georgia could not take over Cherokee Land, but it failed on a technicality.
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
This led to Andrew Jackson's opponents labeling him as "King Jackson" because of his use of the presidential veto power, refusing to renew the contract of a significant financial institution.
What is the bank war? What is Jackson's refusal to renew the national bank?
The idea that Americans had a divine right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
American Indian who made a Pan-Indian attempt to unite and ward off encroaching Americans from their lands and way of life.
Who is Tecumseh?
This court case was the second attempt to establish that Georgia had no right to take Cherokee land and it was successful.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The five civilized tribes forced to move west of the Mississippi River. Name all 5.
What are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek & Chickasaw?
Declared Europe can not interfere with independence movements among new nations in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The name of the first lady who saved a famous picture of George Washington from being burned down during the War of 1812 when the British invaded Washington D.C. (Hint: Her husbands name was James)
Who is Dolly Madison