Unit 7: Westward Expansion

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

“Obvious Future”; belief the US was a chosen nation and needed to spread their beliefs throughout North America.

Question 2

territorial expansion

Answer 2

making a territory bigger

Question 3

authority

Answer 3

having power to do something

Question 4

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 4

A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere; forbade Europe from colonizing further in the W. Hemisphere

Question 5

Jacksonian democracy

Answer 5

movement for more rights for the common man

Question 6

suffrage

Answer 6

the right to vote

Question 7

democrats

Answer 7

Supporters of Andrew Jackson’ included frontier farmers and factory workers

Question 8

“kitchen cabinet”

Answer 8

a group of unofficial advisers to Andrew Jackson who met with him in the White House kitchen

Question 9

spoils system

Answer 9

practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs

Question 10

Indian Removal Act

Answer 10

law passed in 1830 that forced many Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River

Question 11

Trail of Tears

Answer 11

forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a region west of the Mississippi River during which thousands of Cherokees died

Question 12

region

Answer 12

a group of places with common characteristics

Question 13

census

Answer 13

an official count of population

Question 14

Erie Canal

Answer 14

Artificial waterway opened in 1825 linking Lake Erie to the Hudson River

Question 15

turnpike

Answer 15

road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it

Question 16

corduroy road

Answer 16

road made of logs

Question 17

national road

Answer 17

first federally funded national road project; started in 1811

Question 18

sectionalism

Answer 18

loyalty to the interests of one’s region of the country

Question 19

American System

Answer 19

Program for economic growth promoted by Henry Clay in the early 1800s; called for high tariffs on imports and federal funds to improve transportation

Question 20

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 20

A case in which the Supreme Court ruled that states had no right to interfere with federal institutions within their borders

Question 21

Gibbons v. Ogden

Answer 21

A case in which the Supreme Court upheld the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce

Question 22

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 22

Treaty between Spain and the US in which Spain agreed to give Florida to the US in exchange for $5 million