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Unit 6 Significance
Terms, events, and people of Unit 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Presidency of John Adams | Was the second president of the united states. He established that federal government was to help with the needs of the people. |
| Presidency of George Washington | 1. Organized the first US Cabinet and the Executive Branch. 2. Established the US federal judiciary. 3. Oversaw the ratification of the US Bill of Rights. 4. Oversaw the establishment, location and planning of the future District of Columbia. |
| Presidency of Thomas Jefferson | He moved forward with republican beliefs and systems, and increased the counties debt with the Louisiana Purchase |
| Presidency of James Monroe | 1.He enabled the "Era of Good Feelings". 2.Worked to build national trust in 1817. 3.Vetoed the Cumberland Road Bill 4.He sparked constitutional controversy in 1817 involving Spanish Florida |
| Lewis and Clark | The new knowledge they obtained about the Northwest's geography, natural resources, and native inhabitants sparked American interest in the west, |
| Presidency of Andrew Jackson | 1. Ushered in the "Spoils System" and limited serving time of the government officials. 2.He believed that rotation in office would prevent the development of a corrupt bureaucracy. |
| East meets west Japan and China | European powers would intimidate other states into granting trade or other concessions (unequal treaties) through a demonstration of their superior military power. |
| Forty-niners | The first people to rush to the gold fields, beginning in the spring of 1848, were the residents of California themselves—primarily agriculturally oriented Americans and Europeans living in Northern California. |
| Mormons | A religious and cultural group related to Mormonism. Mormonism is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement. |
| Oregon Trail | The Oregon Trail helped the United States to reach its cultural goal of "Manifest Destiny", which means to expand the nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. |
| Sante Fe Trail | Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century transportation route through central America that connected Missouri to Santa Fe Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a commercial and military highway until the railroad to Santa Fe was created in 1880. |
| Manifest Destiny | A belief widely held by the Americans in the 19th century. |
| Mining Claims | Mining brought more people to America for gold and riches. |
| Homesteading | Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of foodstuffs, and may or may not also include production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale. |
| Ranching | the practice of raising livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool. |
| New Inventions | New inventions advanced America to greater heights. Having so many great inventions marked the start of the Industrial Revolution. |
| Factory Labor | The people who help make products. |
| Corporate Mining | is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth |
| Native Lands | At first, most of America belonged to the tribes. But Colonists took that land for their own, which showed what we were capable of. |
| Louisiana Purchase | As the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs. |
| Mexican American War | was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. |
| Texas | War over Texas land broke out, but not for long. The Americans defeated Hildalgo and the Spanish and gained Texas, a very large piece of land. Winning the war and gaining Texas was a large contributor to the success of the nation. |
| Homestead Act | several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. In the United States, this originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres (65 hectares. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Was a policy that stated that any further efforts by Europe to colonize land or interfere with states in the North and the South would be considered aggression. |
| Purchase | Purchasing things such as land and good helped to further move the Americans along to the greatness and power that we have today. |
| Secession | in politics, the ascension to power by one ruler, official, or monarch after the death, resignation, or removal from office of another, usually in a clearly defined order |
| War | is an organized and sometimes prolonged conflict that is carried out by states wishing to form or control other types of territories. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.-Mexican War. As a result of the treaty, the United States gained over 500,000 square miles of land and emerged as a world power in the late nineteenth century. |
| Hildalgo | Traditional title of the persons of Spanish Nobility. |
| Gadsen Purchase | The United States purchased a small chunk of what is now southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico in a treaty. |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | The most significant thing about the treaty was Adams's persistence that the boundary should be extended to the Pacific. His persistence and skills led the United States to become a large and widespread power. Also the gain of Spanish Florida. |
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