Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny

Congress

________ 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.

American victory

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

US government

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

Young America

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

Martin van Buren

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.

Indian removal

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

racial conflict

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

Santa Anna

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

Texas annexation

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

expansion of influence

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

US Mexican War

The ________ had an enormous impact on both countries.

The Indian Removal Act?

______________________ 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

How was the Indian Removal Act justified? Many claimed that it would protect Native American communities from outside influences that jeopardized their chances of becoming “civilized” farmers

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

The Trail of Tears

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

What debate began in response to westward expansion?

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

The debate over slavery

_________________________ was the driving factor of the Texas Revolution

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

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

The discovery of gold in California

____________________ became the biggest draw of the West?

Lawlessness, the predictable failure of most fortune seekers, and racial conflicts

_____________________________ threatened the idea of manifest destiny

The U.S. government sought to keep European countries out of the Western Hemisphere and applied the principles of manifest destiny to the rest of the hemisphere

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

The fears of racialized revolution in Cuba, as well as the presence of an aggressive British abolitionist influence in the Caribbean

What drove the effort to annex Cuba?

They wanted access to valuable farmland

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

Manifest destiny

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