Treaties and Compromise
After the Mexican Cession, the U.S. made the Gadsden Purchase which was important for this reason that helped us keep rolling on.
What is we needed the flat land south of the mountains to build a railroad? I'll accept anything regarding a railroad.
The law that moved Native Americans to Indian Territory in 1830.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Louisiana Purchase, Native American Removal, and Manifest Destiny all sparked a surge in this.
What is westward migration, westward expansion, anything that says people were moving out west?
This major river provided easy access for trade opportunities as we moved west thanks to the Louisiana Purchase and control over the port of New Orleans.
What is the Mississippi River?
This is why Kentucky felt it could nullify the Alien and Sedition acts by declaring they violated constitution. It's also why South Caroline felt they could declare tariffs null and void, and felt they had the right to threaten to secede from the union
What are States' Rights?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, gave popular sovereignty to the new territories of New Mexico and Utah and included the ugly Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was President Andrew Jackson's plan for American Indians in the Southeast (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, etc.)
What is remove them to reservations in Oklahoma?
In 1850, California's population was 92,597.
By 1860 it had grown to 379,994
1870 - 560,247
1880 - 864,694
All because of this......
What is the California Gold Rush, discovery of gold, just say gold?
Our fifth President state "The American continents... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers" when he issued this statement.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Who is Eli Whitney?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
What is 36*30'
This is why President Andrew Jackson opposed the Second Bank of the United States.
What is he thought it was unconstitutional and favored the wealthy?
This geographic formation originally served as a barrier that slowed westward expansion.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
European explorers searched for this new sea route to Asia as they explored westward. Too bad it didn't exist.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This amazing woman fought to create legislation to help the people in jails and asylums. She also advocated for the separation of juveniles and adults in prisons.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This treaty gave the U.S. present day: California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? I will also accept the Mexican Cession.
The Supreme Court Case that stated state governments have no authority in tribal (Indian) affairs.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The Revolt in California when 30 Americans invaded a Mexican military outpost in Sonoma. Kind of like a wild animal that is then put on something that waves in the wind.
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
This occurs as people move to big cities because factories offer jobs for people and some even offer housing for workers with families. They leave the country and go to the city. Not migration, but it ends in "tion"
What is urbanization?
This stopped the English practice of impressment of U.S. sailors into the English Navy. Some would even call it the second war of independence.
What is the War of 1812?
After admitting Missouri as a slave state, the Missouri Compromise sought to keep the balance of power by adding this free state
What is Maine?
Andrew Jackson passed tariffs in 1828 and 1832 that hurt the South more than the North. South Carolina threatened to secede and also passed an ordinance in 1832, by which they declared that the acts of the Congress of the United States "are void” because the tariffs were unconstitutional. It was called the Ordinance of __________
What is Nullification?
We gained lots of land due to the Mexican Cession which was the result of our victory in the U.S. Mexican War. However, tensions between the U.S. and Mexico originally started over this issue.
What is a dispute over the border in Texas?
The U.S. said it was the Rio Grande. Mexico said it was the Nueces River. (You don't have to say that part. Just say border dispute.
This Supreme Court decision dealt with the regulation of interstate commerce by federal or state laws. Only the federal government—not individual states—has the power to regulate interstate commerce. Because on an interstate, you G.O.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
Samuel Slater was Inspired by ideas from Great Britain and built a mill in Rhode Island in 1793. It was the first water-powered factory in the United States. It turned cotton into fabric and led to a rapid growth in this industry that starts with a “T”
What is Textiles?