The Louisiana Purchase

Expansionism

Name:______

  1. The US decided it was God’s will for them to own all of the North American continent from the ______to the ______from the ______up to ______to the ______.

The Louisiana Purchase

  1. Thomas Jefferson believed that the future of the country should be a nation of what?
  2. Who had control of the Mississippi River?
  3. The Mississippi River linked western farmers to what?
  4. French control of the Port of New Orleans gave the French a stranglehold on what?
  5. What did Napoleon need to support his French wars?
  6. James Monroe offered to purchase New Orleans for how much?
  7. Instead, Napoleon offered what?
  8. Did the constitution give the president the power to buy land?
  9. What effect did the Louisiana Purchase have on the size of the United States?
  10. Who did the President Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
  11. Who was their Indian guide?
  12. How many years did their exploration last?
  13. The information that Lewis and Clark brought back created a boom of ______migration.
  1. Why did many white trappers take Indian women as their wives?

The Western Nations

  1. What did Manifest Destiny mean to the Native Americans?
  2. Who led the Native American revival? (two people)
  3. They formed a powerful Indian confederation against what?
  4. Who led troops against the Indian Confederation?
  5. What occurred at the Tippecanoe River?

The War of 1812

  1. The United States had become the largest ______carrier of goods in the world.
  2. Both the French and British did what to our ships and cargo?
  3. What did the British Royal Navy take from our ships?
  4. The British Navy ______our sailors into its own service.
  5. The American desire for war was great among what group?
  6. What was led by John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay?
  7. What did the War Hawks accuse Great Brittan of doing?
  8. The War Hawks demanded that President James Madison do what?
  9. What action does congress take in 1812?
  10. What action did America take in the Canadian Capital, York, in 1813?
  11. How did the British retaliate?
  12. America’s greatest victory took place when?
  13. Where ?
  14. What effect did the Battle of New Orleans have on the peace treaty?
  15. How long did the War of 1812 last?
  16. What was the name of the treaty that ended the War of 1812?
  17. How did the treaty leave the United States and Great Brittan?
  18. Who fought with the British during the War of 1812?
  19. His death at the Battle of the Thames ended what?
  20. Andrew Jackson, with the support of the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, defeated the Creeks at the Battle of ______.

Expansion and the Monroe Doctrine

  1. In 1819 Spain sold ______to the United States under the Pinckney Treaty.
  1. Spain also sold all territory north of the ______latitude, known as ______country.
  1. What was the sell price and agreement?
  1. Fearing ______interventions in the New Republics (of South America), President Monroe issued what warning?
  1. The Monroe Doctrine became the foundation for what?

Indian Removal

  1. Did the principles of the Monroe Doctrine apply to the Indian nations?
  1. In the Northwest American troops crushed what tribes at the Bad Axe Massacre?
  1. What land was taken?
  1. In the South, cotton planters wanted the land owned by what were called the ______.
  1. Who were the largest and most Americanized tribe?
  2. What was the name of the Cherokee newspaper and who started it?
  3. Did the Cherokee have slaves?
  4. What did the state of Georgia try to pressure the Cherokee to do?
  5. How did the Cherokee respond?
  6. What legal action do the Cherokee take?
  7. What was the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Worchester v Georgia?
  8. The Cherokee find themselves caught up in President Andrew Jackson’s battle over what?
  9. Does President Jackson follow the Supreme Court’s decision?
  10. President Jackson urges congress to pass what?
  11. What was authorized by the Indian Removal Act?
  12. What was the relocation area called?
  13. What do we call the path the Creeks and Cherokee were forced to march out of their lands?
  14. In 1835, the US launched a war against what tribe?
  15. The Seminoles had intermarried and lived with escaped ______.
  16. Defeat of the Seminoles marked the end of what?

The Move West

  1. What is the famous line of Horace Greeley?
  2. How did the Indians regard the people moving out West?
  3. How long did the trip to Oregon take?

The Southern Frontier

  1. What was the raging national debate?
  2. What were English and Northern factories buying?
  3. Southern planters pushed across the Mississippi River into ______.
  4. By 1835, many Americans are living where?
  5. Did Mexico invite the settlers to move to Texas?
  6. What were the conditions the American settlers had to meet?
  7. When the Mexican government tries to control the American settlers, what do the settlers do?
  8. What was the name of the place where the Mexican army defeated the settlers?
  9. What was the battle cry the settlers used to rally their cause?
  10. Who led the army of Texas volunteers?
  11. Mexican President Santa Anna was forced to sign a treaty granting what?

The Mexican American War

  1. After winning the war with Mexico, what did Texas decided to do?
  1. Northern congress men would not admit Texas to the United States because of what issue?
  1. President John Tyler convinced congress to do what?
  1. How did Mexico respond?
  1. President James K. Polk ran his election on what promise?
  1. What land would have been included in his election promise?
  1. What two countries laid claim to the resources of the Oregon Territory?
  1. President Polk accepted the British offer to divide the Oregon Territory on the ______parallel.
  1. Had Mexico ever recognized the independence of Texas?
  1. How much did President Polk offer Mexico for California and New Mexico?
  1. Did Mexican President Santa Anna accept?
  1. Who did President Polk send to set up the US post along the Rio Grande River?
  1. Did President Polk know that his actions might lead to war?
  1. When Mexico crosses the Rio Grande River and battles with American troops, what does President Polk tell congress?
  1. When does congress declare war on Mexico?
  1. Mexican President Santa Ana was defeated at what battle?
  1. Unable to convince the Mexicans to surrender what does President Polk order?
  1. The Mexican American War divided Americans. Why did Northerners oppose the war?
  1. What did Congressman Abraham Lincoln accuse President Polk of?
  1. People who wanted to expand the US, known as Expansionists, were also called what?
  1. What did the Expansionists want President Polk to do?
  1. Why did many Americans not want the United States to take all of Mexico?
  1. What treaty ended the Mexican American War?
  1. How much land was taken from Mexico?
  1. What was purchased by the US from Mexico 5 years later?

California Gold Rush

  1. Where did James Marshall discover gold?
  1. The discover set off what?
  1. What term is used to call those that participated in the Gold Rush of 1849?
  1. The California Land Laws took land from whom?
  1. Taxes were placed on what two groups?
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