Age of Jackson

• Excuses for slavery

• Reasons to move east

• Reasons for a belief in Manifest Destiny

• Possibilities of states' rights

• Spain

• Portugal

• Russia

• Netherlands

• The slave trade ended.

• Slavery was declared unconstitutional.

• Only slavery states were admitted into the Union.

• Political power was balanced between slave and free states.

• The conquest of Mexican territory

• The purchase of Louisiana from France

• The cession of Florida territory from Spain

• The land received as a result of the War of 1812

• fighting of a civil war

• growing urbanization

• changing settlement patterns

• increasing need for governmental control

• Election of a state governor

• A population of 60,000 people

• An established form of currency

• Appointment of the first postmaster

• Many settlers moved west to start a new life.

• Many farmers switched from food crops to cash crops.

• Many businesses expanded and added new employees.

• Many women demanded equality and the right to vote.

• American Indians were forced to relocate.

• American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship.

• White settlers were encouraged to abandon American Indian lands.

• White settlers were ordered to avoid contact with American Indians.

• West of the Mississippi River

• Southeastern portion of the United States

• Along the Canadian border with the United States

• West of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River

• popular sovereignty

• Monroe Doctrine

• Manifest Destiny

• spoils system