Unit 5 Vocab - Westward Expansion

the practice of giving supporters government jobs

• Spoils system

• Corrupt bargain

• Annex

• Nullification Act

an alleged secret agreement made between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay during the U.S. presidential election of 1824, in which Adams was elected as President after Clay helped him secure the necessary votes in the House of Representatives

• Spoils system

• Corrupt bargain

• Annex

• Nullification Act

to attach or add on

• Spoils system

• Corrupt bargain

• Annex

• Nullification Act

passed by South Carolina, it declared that the Tariff of 1832 unconstitutional

• Spoils system

• Corrupt bargain

• Annex

• Nullification Act

a law passed by Congress in 1830 setting up territories west of the Mississippi River where Native Americans living in existing states could be relocated

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

• Reservations

• Manifest Destiny

the forced migration by the Cherokee and other Native American groups from their southeastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

• Reservations

• Manifest Destiny

the 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

• Reservations

• Manifest Destiny

federal lands set aside for Native Americans

• Indian Removal Act

• Trail of Tears

• Reservations

• Manifest Destiny

the route to the Oregon Country used by wagon trains in the 1800s

• Oregon Trail

• Mormon Trail

• Forty-niner

• Gadsden Purchase

the route that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from Illinois to Utah in the mid-1800s, in search of religious freedom and a new home in the American West

• Oregon Trail

• Mormon Trail

• Forty-niner

• Gadsden Purchase