US History 7 Key Vocabulary for Unit 6

The idea that the United States had the God-given right to expand Westward to the Pacific Ocean.

• Spoils System

• Manifest Destiny

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

Waterway that made New York the Empire state by connecting the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.

• Oregon Trail

• Trail of Tears

• Spoils System

• Erie Canal

Agreement that led to Spain giving up control of Florida to the United States.

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Manifest Destiny

• Indian Removal Act

Land acquired for 18 million dollars from the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended war with Mexico.

• Seminole Wars

• Oregon Trail

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

Won by Andrew Jackson and was the first time the common man had a voice in politics through voting and political parties.

• Election of 1828

• Seminole Wars

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Manifest Destiny

Act of replacing government officials with supporters of a newly-elected president

• Mexican Cession

• Manifest Destiny

• Spoils System

• Gadsden Purchase

Name given to the forced removal of over 100,000 Natives from their homeland to new areas west of the Mississippi. Over 15,000 Native people died.

• Spoils System

• Trail of Tears

• Seminole Wars

• Oregon Trail

Andrew Jackson moved Native Americans west of the Mississippi River to new lands in exchange for Native lands east of the Mississippi.

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Indian Removal Act

Supreme Court finds that states do not have the power to make laws dealing with foreign countries, so they could not make laws dealing with Native land. A decision that Andrew Jackson refused to enforce and instead signed the Indian Removal Act.

• Seminole Wars

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Election of 1828

• Indian Removal Act

A series of three military conflicts between the USA and Seminole Natives that took place in Florida between 1816 and 1858.

• Trail of Tears

• Indian Removal Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Seminole Wars