Jackson/ Westward Expansion

The practice of rewarding supporters with political jobs is known as

• nullification

• the spoils system

• secession

President Jackson opposed the Bank of the United States because he believed it

• was too powerful and helped the rich

• made state bank powerful

• helped poor farmers

As a result of the Indian Removal Act, thousands of Cherokee lost their lives in what became known as the

• Trail of Terror

• Cherokee Massacre

• Trail of Tears

The Louisiana Purchase was important to the growth of the Unites States because it

• doubled the size of the United States

• completed America's westward expansion

• brought California into the Union

 In order to end conflict between Spain and the U.S. over Florida, the Spanish

• told the Seminoles to fight a war

• sold Florida to the U.S. for $5 million

• surrendered all Spanish territory to the U.S.

During the 1840s the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to

• demand equal rights for African Americans

• criticize government treatment of Native Americans

• support westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean

Missionaries that first migrated to Oregon hoped to

• discover a trade route to Oregon

• convert Native Americans to Christianity

• find gold

Pioneers(early settlers) who made a living trading furs and serving as guides in the Rocky Mountains were known as

• democrats

• missionaries

• mountain men

The U.S. gained its section of the Oregon Country by signing a treaty with

• Great Britain

• France

• Spain

How did most people travel west?

• They traveled by automobile.

• They traveled by boat.

• They used the Oregon Trail.