Jacksonian Era and Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 4. Election of 1824; Henry Clay convinced Congress to elect John Quincy Adams rather than Andrew Jackson for the presidency
  2. 7. Ruled the laws of Georgia could not control the Cherokee within their territory
  3. 8. Giving political jobs for political support
  4. 10. Strengthened federal authority and upheld the constitutionality of the national bank
  5. 11. Land given to the US from Mexico under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo after the Mexican-American War
  6. 12. Term used in the 19th century; US believed that they were destined to expand from coast to coast
  7. 13. US government forcibly removed Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia to Oklahoma
  8. 15. Texas became a state in 1846
  9. 16. Written by Henry Clay; California entered as a free state, the Rio Grande was the border between Texas and Mexico, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, slave trade was illegal in Washington DC
Down
  1. 1. Ended the US-Mexican War; Rio Grande was the official border
  2. 2. Hiring people to government jobs based on political connections rather than work experience
  3. 3. People that represent each state, who formally vote for the election of the president
  4. 5. 1853; land US bought from Mexico what is now Arizona and New Mexico
  5. 6. US government had the power to remove the Native Americans from their lands in the east and forced them to move west
  6. 9. South Carolina passed a resolution forbidding a collection of tariffs in the state.
  7. 14. A war between the US and Mexico, after Texas became a state, over what the border should be between Mexico and Texas