11. What factors caused Americans to believe in Manifest Destiny?
Expanding democracy, population boom, economic prosperity, inexpensive farmland, and discovery of gold and other natural resources
3.Discovery at Sutter's Mill, California in 1849
Gold
10. What was Manifest Destiny?
Belief that the U.S. should own all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
9. Which location on the map was purchased to complete construction of a transcontinental railroad?
E
6. Land gained after U.S. Mexican War
Mexican Cession
Jackson ignored Supreme Court ruling and forced Native Americans off land
Worcester v. Georgia
1.Land signed over by Great Britain, achieved goal of Manifest Destiny
Oregon Territory
7. Opened up land for westward expansion
Louisiana Purchase
2. Annexation of Texas, border disagreement
Reasons for U.S. Mexican War
Problem over states rights involving South Carolina
Nullification Crissi
Laid the groundwork for westward expansion
Lewis and Clark expedition
14. What were push-pull factors for westward expansion?
Push = overpopulation, economic depression, religious persecution; Pull = inexpensive farmland, discovery of gold, adventure
Protest over federal tax, Washington used executive power to restore order
Whiskey Rebellion
8. Widespread famine due to loss of a staple crop
Both
Irish
Chinese
March of Native Americans to Indian Territory
Trail of Tears
Laid the groundwork for judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
13. What were two ways the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was significant?
Ended the U.S.-Mexican War and ceded the land in the Mexican Cession to the U.S.
112. How did a disagreement over boundaries result in the U.S.-Mexican War?
Mexico wanted the Nueces River to serve as the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico, but the U.S. believed the boundary was the Rio Grande
Group of immigrants who settled the midwest and farmed
Germans
Prohibited Europeans from further colonization of America
Monroe Doctrine
8. Wanted future economic prosperity
Both
Chinese
Irish
5. Belief that immigrants are taking away jobs from Americans
Nativism
8. Worked in California goldfields
Both
Chinese
Irish
4. Land sold by Spain in Adam Onis Treaty
Florida