History 103, Nassau Community College- Summer III (Chapters 9-12)
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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Spanish gave Florida back to the United States
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Cherokee Nation
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Largest of the five, men hunted, women farmed, occupied the South, large slaveholders
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Seminole's
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\"Wild\", or \"runaway in the Creek language
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Preemption
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A doctrine under which certain federal laws take over conflicting state or local laws
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Transportation Revolution
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Written by John C. Calhoun, \"Let us, then, bind the nation together with a perfect system of roads and canals. Let us conquer space.\"
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Eerie Canal
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1817, built by Irish immigrants, linked Albany and Buffalo, caused economy to boom
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Era of Good Feeling
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A name for President Monroe's two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion, since the Federalist party dissolved after the War of 1812, there was only one political party
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American System
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Henry Clay of KY's high protective tariff to eliminate dependence on Europe and promoting economic development
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Missouri Compromise
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1820-1821, admission of Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, temporarily settles arguments over slavery
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John Marshall
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Chief justice, federalist, helped to shape the Constitution
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Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
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1819, government of New Hampshire asked to convert the college from private to state, supreme court ruled that states could not interfere with private contracts
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McCulloch vs. Maryland
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Maryland created a tax on the Baltimore branch of the Bank, Supreme Court ruling said that states had no right to interfere with federal institutions within their borders, strengthened federal power
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Gibbons vs. Ogden
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1824, allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce
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Interstate vs. Intrastate
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Inter- between two or more states Intra- inside one state
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Monroe Doctrine
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1823, declared no further colonization, stay out of european affairs
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Hotels
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Influenced travel, white-males, elite, once inside everyone was treated with the same respect
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Popular Sovereignty
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States should decide rights not listed in the Constitution
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Election of 1824
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Four candidates: Adams, Jackson, Clay, and Crawford, no candidate received a majority of the electoral votes, Adams was elected by the House of Representatives
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Tariff of Abominations
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(Tariff of 1828) Taxed imported goods at a very high rate; the South hated the tariff because it feared it would provoke Britain to reject American cotton
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John C. Calhoun
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1828, lead the fight against protective tariff, created the doctrine of nullification
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Nullification Crisis
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Doctrine, said that a state could decide if a law was constitutional
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The Whigs
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Anti-Jackson party, pro-royalist
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Spoil System
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Political party gives jobs to their friends/relatives
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Tocqueville's Wisdom
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1831-1832, democratic system only benefits the white males, we are headed towards internal conflicts (war), women were lacking rights
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Upper South
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Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee
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Lower South
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Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri
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Trail of Tears
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1833, military forced Native American Indians to march to Oklahoma and leave their homes
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Bank War
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Jackson believed the Bank of US had too much power and was too rich
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Nat Turner
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1831, leader of slave uprising, Southampton, VA
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Gabriel Prosser
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1800, leader of the uprising in Richmond, VA
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Denmark Vesey
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Case that showed that a prosperous, free, African-American might give his life in the struggle for freedom
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Yeoman
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An owner and cultivator of a small farm, did not own slaves, but wanted to
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Grow of Cotton
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Increased need for slavery, easy but tiring job, boosted economy, cotton was sold from the upper south to the lower south in exchange for slaves,
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South Carolina Exhibition and Protest
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Defined the theory of nullification in a document
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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Written by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional
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Evangelicalism
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Diverse Christian movement calling for a return to biblical faith, personal conversion experience, and spreading the gospel
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Second Great Awakening
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19th century, brings religious camp meetings to rural and urban areas, held outdoors, allowed for big audiences, emotional experiences of expressing faith
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Evangelicalism
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Diverse Christian movement calling for a return to biblical faith, personal conversion experience, and spreading the gospel
