Key Events/Treaties
What 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Which territory was acquired from France for $15 million?
What is the Louisiana Territory?
What belief justified U.S. expansion across North America?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What 1830 law led to the forced relocation of Native Americans?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What president authorized the Louisiana Purchase and sent Lewis and Clark to explore?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Who led the expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory?
Who were Lewis and Clark?
What state was annexed by the U.S. in 1845 after gaining independence from Mexico?
What is Texas?
What U.S. policy in 1823 warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What journey led to the deaths of thousands of Cherokee in 1838?
What is the Trail of Tears?
Who signed the Indian Removal Act into law?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What treaty gave the U.S. control of Florida in 1819?
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
The Mexican Cession included land that became which modern-day state with a gold rush?
What is California?
What ideology emphasized the power of the common man during Andrew Jackson’s presidency?
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
What revival movement helped spark reform movements in the early 1800s?
What is the Second Great Awakening?
What politician is known as “The Great Compromiser”?
Who is Henry Clay?
What compromise in 1820 maintained the balance between free and slave states?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What 1846 treaty established the 49th parallel as the U.S.-Canada border in the Pacific Northwest?
What is the Oregon Treaty?
What 1846 proposal aimed to ban slavery in new territories acquired from Mexico?
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What philosophical movement emphasized nature and individualism?
What is Transcendentalism?
What South Carolina senator defended slavery and states' rights?
Who is John C. Calhoun?
What war from 1846 to 1848 ended with the U.S. acquiring California and much of the Southwest?
What is the Mexican-American War?
Name two present-day states included in the Mexican Cession.
What are Arizona and New Mexico? (Other valid answers: Nevada, Utah, parts of Colorado and Wyoming)
What growing division over slavery, tariffs, and states' rights fueled Civil War tensions?
What is Sectionalism?
What two major reform movements emerged from the early 19th-century religious revival?
What are abolitionism and women's rights?
What former slave and abolitionist wrote a famous autobiography in 1845?
Who is Frederick Douglass?