The Era of Progress and Sectionalism Review

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America

• The belief that their destiny was to manifest

• A religious term used to explain how to be saved

• The belief that America should take over the world

The war with Mexico BEGAN with

• California's Rebellion

• Annexing Texas as a state in the union

• A U.S. invasion of Mexico

• The Alamo

What is the name of the piece of land the U.S. gained after the Mexican-American War?

• Oregon Country

• Louisiana Purchase

• Santa Fe

• The Mexican Cession

What does this image represent?

• The Monroe Doctrine

• Some giant lady spreading light and literacy?

• Manifest Destiny

• The West bringing light and prosperity to the East coast.

What was the name of the treaty where Mexico ceded half of its land to the United States?

• Treaty of San Jacinto

• Treaty of the Alamo

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• The Gadsden Purchase

Who ruled in favor of the Cherokee, legally saying they were a sovereign nation? (Worcester v. Georgia)

• The Supreme Court

• Congress

• Andrew Jackson

• The state of Georgia

This image was created by the Whigs in response to all EXCEPT

• Andrew Jackson getting rid of the national bank against Congress's wishes.

• Andrew Jackson going against a supreme court decision, ultimately enforcing the Indian Removal Act, unconstitutionally.

• Andrew Jackson wanting to be the common man's president.

As a result of President Jackson's policies, American Indians were

• Forcibly relocated to California

• Granted U.S. citizenship

• Allowed to stay on their homeland as their own sovereign nation.

• Forcibly relocated to land west of the Mississippi.

The Cherokee created their own constitution, dressed in western clothes, spoke English, and even had their own plantations. This is an example of:

• Resistance

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

Who signed the Treaty of New Echota, ultimately agreeing with the government that they will leave the Cherokee region?

• A small number of tribal leaders who did not represent the rest of the Cherokee nation

• Chief John Ross

• All of the Cherokee people signed the document

• No one