Expansion
Jefferson bought this territory for $15 million from France, doubling the size of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase
What were the two causes of the War of 1812?
1. British impressment of American Sailors
2. British arming Indians to attack American settlers in the Ohio River Valley
This political party opposed Andrew Jackson's presidency claiming that he was a tyrant? (it's not the federalists)
The Whigs
This former slave organized the only violent slave uprising in the US here in the state of Virginia?
Nat Turner
This meeting was the first women's rights convention, demanding that women be given equality and the right to vote?
Seneca Falls Convention (or Declaration)
The belief that the U.S. should expand westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific and that this expansion is preordained by God?
Manifest Destiny
At the end of the Mexican War, the Southwest of the US (Mexican Cession) was granted to the US in this treaty?
The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
After Jackson abolishes the National Bank, he pulls the nation's gold and silver surplus into smaller state banks called?
Pet Banks
In this 1820 compromise, Maine enters as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to keep the balance in the federal government.
The Missouri Compromise
What political party believed that the US should have a National Bank and were loose constructionist when interpreting the constitution?
The Federalists
This event took place as a result of the Indian Removal Act (1830) where the 5 "civilized tribes" of the southwest were forcibly moved to Oklahoma?
The Trial of Tears
This battle won by Andrew Jackson occurred two weeks the War of 1812 was over.
Battle of New Orleans
What is the name of the economic depression that occurred under Jackson's administration?
The Panic of 1837
This abolitionist, led the bloody fighting in Kansas against the pro-slavery “raiders” from Missouri. He was later captured, hung, and declared a martyr by abolitionists?
John Brown
This uprising among farmers was over the taxation of whiskey and was put down personally by George Washington?
The Whiskey Rebellion
What was the river route to the Pacific called that Lewis and Clark were searching for?
The Northwest Passage
This was the nickname of congressmen who wanted the US to go to war with Great Britain?
War Hawks
What political party was founded by Jackson that's still around today?
The Democratic Party
This 1854 act, repealed the Missouri Compromise line by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska the choice whether to allow slavery in their states?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Jeffersonian political party opposed a national bank and felt that the national government should be weak with an agricultural economy?
Democratic- Republicans (not the Anti Federalists)
This government stance put forth by James Monroe stated that the Western Hemisphere should not be colonized by European nations and that any European meddling in South and Central America would be a treated as a threat to the United States?
Monroe Doctrine
This treaty was signed ending the War of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
This man was Jackson's biggest political opponent, he opposed the Tariff of Abomination and threatened to have his state South Carolina succeed from the union?
John C. Calhoun
This New England Journalist published the antislavery newspaper The Liberator which assisted in the spread of abolitionists beliefs?
William Lloyd Garrison
This siege between Texans and the Mexican Army in 1836 was a lose but it bought time for the Texans to amass a larger army and defeated Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto, ending the Texas Revolution.
The Battle of the Alamo