Review 150 Part 2 Flashcards
What event was fought over bringing independence tot he eventual Lone Star Republic?
Texas Rebellion
What Amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in America, including African Americans?
14th Amendment
What document said that North America was no longer open to colonization after a number of Latin American countries had gained their independence?
Monroe Doctrine
What phrase is relating to a city or a town?
Urban
What is the concept where Americans believe it was their god given right to expand all the way from Atlantic to Pacific?
Manifest Destiny
Who was the President that had the shortest President in US History?
William Henry Harrison
What is the name for the event when violence broke out over a rigged election allowed slavery in this territory?
Bleeding Kansas
What phrase is relating to the country side rather than a city?
Rural
What law opened two territories to possibly allowing slavery In their regions, even though they were both north of the Free state- slave line?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the name for the economic system in our country where people have to invest in their own business in hopes of making a profit?
Capitalism
What was was started over disputed border territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Rivers?
Mexican War
What law said that Native Americans has to be relocated out of the American southeast to land designated for them west of the Mississippi?
Indian Removal Act
What Act of congress tried to keep the balance between free states and slave states and had a line go across the nation to determine if now states were free or slave states?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What battle bought Texan forces much needed time?
Fort Sumpter
Conflict were Washington DC was burned, the attack at Fort McHenry and the Battle of New Orleans?
War of 1812.
