| A | B |
|---|
| Marbury v.Madison | judicial review |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | no state taxation of the national government |
| Louisiana Purchase | doubled the size of the US |
| Lewis and Clark | explored Louisiana purchase |
| Sacajawea | Indian guide for Lewis and Clark |
| Territory gained after War of 1812 | Oregon |
| Monroe Doctrine | No more European colonization |
| Americans settled | westward |
| Enabled expansion | Canals and Railroad |
| Migration to Texas | Caused armed conflicts with the Mexicans |
| Won the Alamo | Mexicans |
| Won the Mexican War | Americans |
| Land from Mexican War | CA, NEV, UT, AZ, some of CO and NM |
| Manifest Destiny | belief that the US should spread from the Pacific to the Atlantic |
| Trail of Tears | forcible relocation of Indians |
| Aristocracy | governed by the best educated and qualified |
| Jackson | favored the common man |
| Spoils system | giving jobs for political support |
| Panic of 1837 | Caused by the closing of the National Bank |
| National Struggle | because of sectional differences |
| North | Industrial and pro protective tariffs |
| South | Agricultural and against tariffs |
| Free States | supported by the North |
| Slave States | supported by the South |
| Doctrine of Nullification | idea that states could ignore federal law if the law caused harm to that state |
| Secede | leave the Union |
| popular sovereignty | ability to make decisions locally |
| Missouri Compromise | a line was drawn and states north of the line, except Missouri, were free states. States below the line were slave states. |
| Compromise of 1850 | CA enters as a free state while SW territories could decide for themselves |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | These states used popular sovereignty/ chose the status of their states on their own |
| Bloody Kansas | nickname due to the fighting over slavery in that state |
| Growing disputes over slavery | caused the birth of the New Republican Party |
| Lincoln | joined the New Republican Party |
| Abolition | movement against slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | The Liberator |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Suffrage | rights |
| Stanton | Women's rights |
| Bagley | Worker's rights |
| Dix | Rights for the Mentally Ill |
| Fugitive Slave Laws | mandated the return of all run away slaves to his master |
| Dred Scott | upheld Fugitive Slave Laws |
