Unit 3 study guide US history

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Across
  1. 3. Party that traveled to California but only about half survived
  2. 6. The right of the Supreme Court to determine if a law violates the Constitution, or to review on other acts
  3. 9. Men who were sent by Jefferson to go on an expedition across the country, ran into Sacagawea on the way. They were to report back on any people, animals, or plants they found
  4. 10. When gold was discovered in California, many people came to the state to mine for gold
  5. 13. A tax on imports or exports
  6. 15. The United States was set apart for a special purpose by God to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific ocean
  7. 16. The election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, the opponents used mudslinging. Jackson ended up winning
  8. 17. Nation of people who didn't want to give up their land, but were later forced to move west (trail of tears)
  9. 19. During the Texan Revolution, a small Texan group was defending this nearby mission in Texas
  10. 20. Leading War Hawk who made the Missouri Compromise, and opposed Jackson in the election of 1832
  11. 21. People who went to California during the gold rush of 1849
  12. 23. Attempts to ruin their opponents' reputations with insults, used in Election of 1828
  13. 26. The forced march of the Cherokee from southeast US to the west
  14. 27. Commander in chief of the Texas forces and 1st President of the Republic of Texas
  15. 28. Polk ordered this US army officer to march his soldiers across the disputed territory and gets into a small battle with the Mexican army to start the war
  16. 30. To add a territory to one's own territory
  17. 31. Practice of handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters. Part of Jacksonian Democracy
  18. 32. Small group of Americans proclaimed the independent Republic of California. Later, the US Navy force captured San Diego and Los Angeles to make the state fully controlled by the US.
Down
  1. 1. Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy
  2. 2. Known as "Old Hickory," war hero of the War of 1812. 7th president
  3. 4. Sold the miners sturdy pants made of denim during the Gold Rush
  4. 5. An annual meeting where they would trade and share stories
  5. 7. Wrote a poem that became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner," later known as the national anthem. Told people what he saw on the ships
  6. 8. South Carolina passed the Nullification act, declaring it would not pay the "illegal" tariffs, they threatened to break away from the Union. Jackson backed a bill that would lower the tariff
  7. 11. Leader of the Mormons
  8. 12. A religion where the people moved to the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah. They were later persecuted
  9. 14. The United States would not interfere with any existing European colonies in the Americas. No new European colonies should be set up in the Western Hemisphere
  10. 18. Mexico gave California and New Mexico to the US
  11. 22. The size of the United States doubled, and Jefferson bought it from France
  12. 23. Henry Clay came up with the idea that Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state. Slavery was banned in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30'N parallel.
  13. 24. Trail that led to Oregon Territory that encouraged western expansion
  14. 25. 3rd President who purchased Louisiana from France
  15. 29. First settlers of the Oregon territory who made their living trapping (beaver) in the wilderness and gathering for an annual meeting/rendezvous