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100

Mexico invited Americans to come to Texas and settle for this primary reason.

To help control the Indian population.

100

President that pushed out the indians?

Andrew Jackson

100

The term used for the belief that America had a Devine right to move West.

Manifest Destiny

100

This 15 million dollar purchase of land opened the way for exploration in the plains and Northwest.

Louisiana Purchase

100

Jefferson sent these two guys to explore the West, after making the Louisiana Purchase?

Lewis and Clark

100

This event brought three hundred thousand people to California in 1848-1849.

California Gold Rush

100

The harsh trip that the Indians had to endure when they were forced off their land during winter and had to march thousands of miles west? 

Trail of tears

100

This region of the country benefitted from tariffs because they had most of the manufacturing.

Northeast

200

Battle in the Mexican American War, where Santa Ana surrounded a fort and killed all the Americans inside?  

Alamo

200

Invented the telegraph.

Samuel Morse

200

This River became the border between Texas and Mexico.

Rio Grande

200

Name of the trail that took settlers to Oregon.

Oregon Trail

200

Another name for the Tariff of 1828?

Tariff of abominations

200

Belief that the country is more important than a region?

Nationalism

200

Love of region over love of nation is called?

Sectionalism

200

This region of the country opposed the American System because they believed it would hurt them, that it was just an added tax.

South

300

Mexico did not want to see this system in Texas.

Slavery

300

He killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel? 

Aaron Burr

300

What incident caused fighting to break out, eventually leading to war.

American and Mexican soldiers were stationed in areas near the Rio Grande that were in dispute. This led to tensions and eventually a small battle.

300

This country shared control of Oregon with the U.S.

Great Britain

300

Name two states that were part of the Mexican Cession? 

California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah

300

What were the two biggest gains for America when they bought the Louisiana Purchase? 

Doubled the size of the country and gave America control of the Mississippi River.

300

This invention increased slavery in the U.S.?

Cotton Gin

300

This person was behind the National Bank, which the North supportted. 

Alexander Hamilton

400

Give me 2 of the 3 reasons why the U.S. did not immediately accept Texas as a state.

1.) Did not want to go to war with Mexico, 2.) Texas had huge debt 3.) It was a slave state, how would they be brought into the U.S.

400

Invented the Steam Boat and engine.

Robert Fulton

400

Who was the President of Mexico during the Mexican American War

Santa Ana

400

This would eventually lead to the end of wagon trains and the Oregon Trail.

Railroads/ Trans-American Railroad

400

This purchase gave America the Southern part of modern day Arizona and New Mexico, and borders Mexico. 

Gadsden Purchase

400

Andrew Jackson preferred state banks over national banks, they were called ______   _________

Pet Banks

400

Term for when a state can refuse to obey a federal law?

Nullification

400

The North and West wanted to see improvements in ______________ because they believed it would increase trade.

Infrastructure- transportation

500

He petitioned Mexico, requesting that Texas become independent. Mexico refused.

Stephen F. Austin

500

Created a "doctrine" that said European nations had to stay out of the America's.

James Monroe

500

Agreement that gave independence to Texas.

Treaty of Velasco

500

This President bought the Louisiana Purchase and sent Lewis and Clarke West to explore?

Thomas Jefferson

500

Factory owner in Massachusetts that believed in hiring women?

Francis Lowell

500

Andrew Jacksons system of giving jobs to people loyal to him or donated money to him was called?

Spoil System

500

This act forced Native Americans in the South to go to reservations in Oklahoma?

Indian Removal Act

500

This person was Vice-President and he greatly opposed the American System's tariffs.

John C. Calhoun

600

The President of the Texas Republic, he defeated Santa Ana at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Sam Houston

600

This person coined the term Manifest Destiny

John L. O'Sullivan

600

Mexico signed this this treaty which gave the U.S. control of Texas, and ended the Mexican American War.

Guadalupe Hidalgo

600

After reaching the Coast of Oregon, what did the Lewis and Clarke expedition do for the next few months.

Wintered in the area, resting and re-supplying for the trip home. They also built a small fort.

600

Andrew Jackson's economic policies led to this economic disaster? 

Panic of 1837

600

The first "highway" in America was called?

The National Road

600

Known as the "Father of the American factory system. He built the first textile plant in Rhode Island.

Samuel Slater

600

Who was the primary creator of the American System?

Henry Clay