US History Benchmark 1 2023

The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4,000 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

• Lewis and Clark

• Trail of Tears

• States Rights

• Bleeding Kansas

A document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women in Seneca Falls, NY.

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Democratic-Republican

• Indian Removal Act of 1830

• Dred Scott

Territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.

Doubled the size of the United States.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis and Clark

• Manifest Destiny

• westward migration

The movement of people to the western and mid-western states to find new opportunities (ex. jobs, land, and gold).

• popular sovereignty

• Louisiana Purchase

• States Rights

• westward migration

Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored strong STATE governments, emphasized agriculture, strict interpretation of the Constitution, pro-French, opposed National Bank.

• John Brown

• War of 1812

• Susan B. Anthony

• Democratic-Republican

Declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S. It also declared that a New World colony which has gained independence may not be recolonized by Europe.

• Lewis and Clark

• 'The Liberator'

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.

• Spoils System

• Republican Party (1854)

• Frederick Douglass

• Abolitionist

Passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indians tribes in the Southern U.S. for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.

• Indian Removal Act

• spoils system

• Whig Party

• Ogden v. Gibbons

Time era during the 19th Century in which anybody who wants to be in the government in the government, not just the elite.

• States Rights

• Age of the Common Man

• Nullification Crisis

• westward migration

A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution.

• Parliament

• "Sons of Liberty"

• "No taxation without representation!"

• Boston Massacre (1770)

Answer explanation