Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion Vocabulary

The right to vote

• 19th amendment

• Suffrage

• Bill of Rights

• democracy

A group making up more than half of a larger group.

• minority

• popular sovereignty

• majority

• party

political party established by Henry Clay

• Libertarian Party
• Democratic-Republican Party
• Whig Party
• Federalist Party

A U.S. political party from the 1820's until present day that first spoke up for the small farmers and workers.

• Green Party
• Libertarian Party
• Republican Party
• Democratic Party

the practice of giving supporters government jobs

• favoritism
• meritocracy
• spoils system

• nepotism

The rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution.

• states' rights

• Implied Powers
• Enumerated Powers
• Reserved Powers

The border, especially the border of an area of settlement; a line past which land isn't settled.

• edge
• limit
• boundary
• frontier

A law past by Congress in 1830 setting up territories west of the Mississippi where Native Americans could be relocated

• Native American Relocation Act
• Cherokee Removal Act
• Trail of Tears Act
• Indian Removal Act

1832 supreme court ruling that state laws don't apply inside of Indian territory.

• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Marbury v. Madison
• Worcester v. Georgia
• Dred Scott v. Sandford

A region set aside for the relocation of Native Americans, much of which later became Oklahoma.

• Sioux Territory
• Navajo Territory
• Cherokee Territory
• Indian Territory