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Adams-Onis Treaty - ANSWER 1819 Spain ceded (gave up) Florida to US
War of 1812 - ANSWER war with Britain because they kept impressing
sailors, and arming the natives
McCulloch v. Maryland - ANSWER Strengthened power of federal government: States
had no power to interfere with federal institutions: States can't pass laws that violate
federal laws
Monroe Doctrine - ANSWER European stay out of US affairs and US will
stay out of European affairs
Spoils System - ANSWER System were government officials are replaced
with supporters of new candidate
Trail of Tears - ANSWER Removal of Native Americans from Territory East
of the Mississippi
Suffrage - ANSWER right to Vote
Manifest Destiny - ANSWER Belief that the United States was destined, or
meant, by God to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Texas Independence - ANSWER Texas declares independence in 1836
from Mexican dictator. Wanted to be annexed by US
Mexican-American War - ANSWER dispute over land claims led to war.
Mexico ceded much of its territory to the US at the end of the war
Gold Rush - ANSWER California rich with gold pockets, causing a massive
migration of Americans in search of gold and fortune
Industrial Revolution - ANSWER machines take place of many hand tools
Mass production - ANSWER Rapid manufacture of large numbers of
identical objects
, Interchangeable parts - ANSWER identical pieces that could be assembled
quickly by unskilled workers
Railroads - ANSWER Transportation Revolution: tied together raw
materials, manufacturers, and markets
Slave Codes - ANSWER Laws that controlled every aspect of a slaves life
Missouri Compromise - ANSWER Maine admitted as Free State; Missouri admitted as a
slave state; Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri would be free;
Southern slave owners could pursue escaped slaves into "free" regions and return them
to slavery
Underground Railroad - ANSWER Network of people who helped slaves
reach freedom (about 50,000)
Compromise of 1850 - ANSWER Admitted California as a free state, banned slave trade
in DC; popular sovereignty used to decide slavery in land of Mexican Cession; passed
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act - ANSWER Formed Kansas and Nebraska territory
and allowed popular sovereignty to decide issue of slavery
Bleeding Kansas - ANSWER Rush of pro slavery and anti-slavery people to
Kansas, led to bloodshed over if Kansas would be a free or slave state
Dred Scott - ANSWER He sued for freedom because he lived where slavery
was illegal; Court ruled that slaves were property, and had no protection under
Constitution, thou he could not sue
Election of 1860 - ANSWER Lincoln gets elected president, because
democrats split the vote
Fort Sumter - ANSWER Union Fort, attacked by confederates on April 12,
1861 first shots of the war
Bull Run - ANSWER Expected easy Union victory, Confederates did not
give up and won
Emancipation Proclamation - ANSWER Gave freedom to slaves in non-
Union controlled land