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SS Unit 5:
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The "Corrupt Bargin" | |
| Tariff Of Abominations | Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North. |
| Kitchen Cabinet | Group of unofficial advisers to Andrew Jackson who met with him in the White House kitchen. |
| States Rights | The right of states to limit the power of the federal government. |
| James Beckwourth | |
| Gadsden Purchase | Strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico for which the United States paid Mexico $10 million in 1853. |
| Marcus & Narcissa Whitman | |
| Tejanos | Person of Mexican descent born in Texas. |
| Sante Fe Trail | Rout to Santa Fe, New Mexico, that was used by traders in the 1800's. |
| Cede | To give up. |
| Bear Flag Republic | Nickname for California after it declared independence from Mexico. |
| Vigilant | Self-appointed enforcer of the law. |
| Chapultepec | Fort outside of Mexico City; site of an 1847 battle between the United States and Mexico. |
| Whigs | Members of John Quincy Adams's former National Republican party. |
| The Bank War | |
| Secede | To withdraw from membership in a group. |
| Lone Star Republic | Nickname for Texas after it won independence from Mexico in 1836. |
| Winfield Scott | |
| Siege | Military blockade or bombardment of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender. |
| Battle of San Jacinto | An 1836 battle between Texans and Mexicans during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. |
| Junipero Sierra | |
| Zachary Taylor | |
| Mexican Cession | Mexican territories of California and New Mexico given to the United States in 1848. |
| Brigham Young | |
| William Travis | |
| Democrats | Supporter of Andrew Jackson; included frontier farmers and factory workers. |
| Nullification | Idea that a state has the right to nullify, or cancel, a federal law that the state leaders consider to be unconstitutional. |
| Trail of Tears | Forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to a region west of the Mississippi during which thousands of Cherokee died. |
| Sam Houston | |
| Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. |
| Annex | To add on or take over. |
| Sutter's Mill | Location where gold was discovered in California in 1848, setting off the gold rush. |
| James K. Polk | |
| Mexican War | |
| Santa Anna | |
| Joseph Smith | Founded the Mormons. |
| Rendezvous | Yearly meeting where mountain men traded furs. |
| Spoils System | Practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs. |
| Nullification Crisis of 1828 | |
| Indian Removal Act | Law passed in 1830 that forced many Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River. |
| Manifest Destiny | 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent. |
| Stephen Austin | |
| Alamo | Old Spanish mission in Texas where Mexican forces under Sana Anna besieged Texans in 1836. |
| William Becknell | |
| Mountain Man | Trapper who explored and hunted the Oregon Territory in the early 1800s. |
| Forty-niner | One of the more than 80,00 people who joined the gold rush to California in 1863. |
| John C. Fremont | |
| Stephen Kearney |
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