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Louisiana Purchase
The U.S bought this territory off of France to expand westward from Kentucky for a total of 15 million dollars. Category: Economical because it has to do with the economoy and it costed them money. -
Missouri Compromise
Tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a point after Missouri’s request for to the Union as a slave state, which threatened the balance between slave states and free states. orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. Category: -
Cherokee Indian Removal
Was a 19th-century policy of the government of the United States to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55-65 white people, The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. -
Nullification Crisis
when leaders of South Carolina advanced the idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law and could, in effect, "nullify" the law. -
Mexican American War
The first U.S. armed conflict fought on foreign soil. U.S. President James K. Polk, believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. When it was over Mexico had lost nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Category: Economic because the US had won land
