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DEN Lesson 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name the political party that Andrew Jackson started. | Democratic Party |
| Name of the system where Jackson fired government workers and hired his friends/supports | Spoils System |
| What type of person was drawn to Jackson? | the common man |
| What did Jackson want destroyed or killed? | the National Bank |
| Where Jackson sent the 5 Indian tribes | Oklahoma |
| The concept where Americans felt it was our God-given right to expand our nation from sea to shining sea | Manifest Destiny |
| The country that sold us Florida | Spain |
| Texas was annexed into the United States in 1845. What does it mean to be annexed? | to be added or adopted |
| The cost of the Mexican Cession | $15 million |
| Why did we pay $10 million for the Gadsden Purchase? | We needed flat land for a railroad |
| One of the main causes of the Mexican-American War | border dispute/disagreement between Mexico and the US |
| Name of the President during the Mexican-American War | James K. Polk |
| True or False - The US won most of the major battles during the Mexican-American War. | True |
| The land we gained from the Mexican-American War | the Mexican Cession |
| Treaty the ended the Mexican-American War | Treaty of Hidalgo |
| What was built in the North when England stopped trading with the US? | factories |
| The reason the factories were built in the North | so we would not have to depend on England anymore |
| What the cotton gin did to the need for slaves | the need for slaves increased |
| When a large number of people move to the city | urbanization |
| Some problems with urbanization | overcrowding, spread of disease, fire hazard, high crime rate, unclean |
| the 2nd Great Awakening | when large numbers of people turned back to God and began worshipping Him again |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Fought for women's rights and women's suffrage | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott |
| What the Temperance Movement was against | drinking alcohol |
| What abolitionists were against | slavery |