Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Trail Of Tears

• Popular Sovereignty

A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.

• Missouri Compromise

• Monroe Doctrine

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

California admitted as free state, territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, federal assumption of Texas debt, slave trade abolished in DC, and new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Compromise of 1850

• Louisiana Purchase

• Missouri Compromise

The forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma.

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal Act

• War of 1812

• Compromise of 1850

North Carolina's nickname in the early 1800s, so called because the state supposedly fell asleep and made little social and economic progress.

• Rip Van Winkle State

• Baron Von Steuben State

• Hans Christian Andersen State

• Sandman State

Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.

• Monroe Doctrine

• Lewis and Clark

• Trail of Tears

• Louisiana Purchase

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-nebraska Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Missouri Compromise

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

• Monroe Doctrine

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-nebraska Act

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Monroe Doctrine

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Indian Removal Act