1. Ch. 9, 10 and 11 Vocab REview

2. Internal Improvements
Federal projects to develop the nation’s transportation system

3. Sectionalism
Loyalty to a region

4. American System
Policies devised to stimulate the growth of industry and make the United States self- sufficient.

5. Missouri Compromise
allowed Missouri to enter the nation as a slave state but forbid slavery in new northern states west of the Mississippi River

6. Convention of 1818
set the border between the U.S. and Canada at the 49th degree North parallel to the Rockies.

7. Era of good feelings
a period of peace, pride and progress in the United States

8. Monroe doctrine
U.S. policy which stated that the U.S. intended to prevent European nations from interfering with the independent nations of the Americas.

9. limited naval power on the Great Lakes for both the U.S. and Canada
Rush-Bagot Agreement
limited naval power on the Great Lakes for both the U.S. and Canada

10. Adams-Onis treaty
the United States purchases Florida from Spain

11. an 800 mile forced march of the Cherokee
Trail of tears
an 800 mile forced march of the Cherokee

12. Nullification crisis
the dispute over whether states had the right to nullify, or disobey, any federal law with which they disagreed.

13. States’ rights doctrine
stated that because the states had formed the national government, then state power should be greater than the federal power

14. To move someone to another place to live
relocate
To move someone to another place to live

15. Fighting forces make surprise attacks and then retreat into hiding
Guerilla Tactics
Fighting forces make surprise attacks and then retreat into hiding

16. Bureau of indian affairs
an agency created to oversee the federal policy toward Native Americans

17. a financial crisis that led to a severe economic depression
Panic of 1837
a financial crisis that led to a severe economic depression

18. Indian territory
the new homeland for Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

19. Indian removal act
authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

20. Tariff of abominations
a very high tax on imported goods (named so by angry southerners)

21. Spoils system
The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs

22. cede
to give up territory by treaty

23. Donner Party
a group of western travelers who were trapped crossing the Sierra Nevada Mts. in the winter

24. Gadsden purchase
purchase from Mexico of the southern parts of present day New Mexico and Arizona in 1853

25. – rebellion of American settlers against the Californios in 1846.
Bear flag revolt
– rebellion of American settlers against the Californios in 1846.

26. Forty-niners
gold seeking migrants who traveled to California in 1849

27. Prospect
to search for gold

28. a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population
Boomtown
a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population

29. Spanish colonists and their descendants living in California
Californios
Spanish colonists and their descendants living in California

30. Annex
to add territory

31. a person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere.
Emigrant
a person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere.

32. Manifest destiny
the idea that the United States was intended to extend its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean

33. Joint occupation
The agreement allowing both the U.S. and Britain to settle in the Oregon Territory

34. Mountain men
frontiersmen living in the wilderness of the Rocky Mts / fur trappers and traders