Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny

________ passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, thereby granting the president authority to begin treaty negotiations that would give Native Americans land in the West in exchange for their lands east of the Mississippi.

The ________ helped set the United States on the path to becoming a world power and served as a training ground for the Civil War.

Filibustering, as it was called, involved privately financed schemes directed at capturing and occupying foreign territory without the approval of the ________.

The ________ movement downplayed divisions over slavery and ethnicity by embracing national unity

President ________, in 1838, decided to press the issue beyond negotiation and court rulings and used the New Echota Treaty provisions to order the army to forcibly remove those Cherokee not obeying the treatys cession of territory.

The allure of manifest destiny encouraged expansion regardless of terrain or locale, and ________ also took place, to a lesser degree, in northern lands.

Linguistic, cultural, economic, and ________ roiled both urban and rural areas.

________, governing as a dictator, repudiated the federalist Constitution of 1824, pursued a policy of authoritarian central control, and crushed several revolts throughout Mexico.

________ had remained a political landmine since the Republic declared independence from Mexico in 1836.

The ________ and territory off the continent became an important corollary to westward expansion.

The ________ had an enormous impact on both countries.

______________________ granted the president authority to begin treaty negotiations that would give Native Americans land in the West in exchange for their lands east of the Mississippi

Many claimed that it would protect Native American communities from outside influences that jeopardized their chances of becoming “civilized” farmers

________________ was a series of forced displacements that resulted in thousands of deaths

The debate of how the the government should pay for necessary internal improvements

_________________________ was the driving factor of the Texas Revolution

What were the impacts of the American victory of the US-Mexican War?

____________________ became the biggest draw of the West?

_____________________________ threatened the idea of manifest destiny

Why did the government expand the "jurisdiction" of manifest destiny?

What drove the effort to annex Cuba?

Why did the government stop trying to assimilate Native Americans and instead start to forcibly remove them?

_______________________ was quasi-religious call to spread democracy, grounded in the belief that a democratic, agrarian republic would save the world