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Lousiana Purchase
The U.S. bought 828,000 square miles of land from the French. -
MIssouri Compromise
Prohibited slavery in the U.S. except for Missouri. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Slavery rebellion where black slaves killed 55-65 whites to escapse salvery. Turner's attampt was shut down the next day, but she survived in hiding for 2 months before she was tried, convicted and hanged for her crime. -
Nullification crisis
A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. The controversial and highly protective Tariff of 1828 was enacted into law during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. -
Cherokee Indian Removal
The removal, or forced emigration, of Cherokee Indians occurred in 1838, when the U.S. military and various state militias forced some 15,000 Cherokees from their homes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and moved them west to Indian Territory (now present-day Oklahoma). -
Mexican American War
The Invasion of Mexico, the U.S. Intervention, or the United States War Against Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
