Mafifest Destiny Chapter 12

Question 1

The Panic of 1837

Answer 1

was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time

Question 2

Manifest Destiny

Answer 2

the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable

Question 3

The Republic of Texas

Answer 3

The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign country in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

Question 4

Jacksonianism

Answer 4

Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man as that term was then defined. Originating with President Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation’s dominant political worldview for a generation.

Question 5

Battle of San Jacinto

Answer 5

312) 1836 Sam Houston defeated Mexican army and took Gen. Santa Anna prisoner, who signed a treaty giving Texas independence.

Question 6

Texas Revolution

Answer 6

The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico.

Question 7

Mexican war

Answer 7

(318) 1846 US declared war. Whigs charged that Polk deliberately put country in conflict (and lied about attack).

Question 8

The Bank War

Answer 8

was the name given to the campaign begun by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, after his reelection convinced him that his opposition to the bank had won national support.

Question 9

Indian Removal

Answer 9

Indians in Georgia had valid land there, they had to leave in the winter walk to oklahoma to indian terriotry

Question 10

Bank Bill

Answer 10

Tyler Vetos all 3 Bank Bills

Question 11

When was the Texas Revolution

Answer 11

1836

Question 12

Whig Party

Answer 12

Willaim Henry Harrison American System

Question 13

Harrison got kicked out by who

Answer 13

the Whig party and he left the democratic party before.

Question 14

Was Texas recongized as a independent country?

Answer 14

they were free but mexico believd they were apart of mexico still.

Question 15

Who hates the british and wanted to annex Texas

Answer 15

Andrew Jackson

Question 16

Oregeon Territory

Answer 16

54’ 40’

Question 17

Fugative Slave Act of 1850

Answer 17

A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.

Question 18

Kansas Nevraska Act

Answer 18

was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

Question 19

when did virgina get independence

Answer 19

May 15th 1776 Virigina Independence

Question 20

Virigna Declaration of rights

Answer 20

1776

Question 21

Virginia Declaration of rights

Answer 21

Section 1- Social compact (w/ exceptions )

Section 16 freedom of conscinece

Question 22

Federal Bill of Rights

Answer 22

First admendments

Question 23

Pennsylvannia of 1776

Answer 23

enacted its first state constitution in direct response to the Declaration of Independence and the instructions of the Second Continental Congress to the colonies to reject British rule.