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Am. His. Lesson 2
American History 1801-1860
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| U.S. purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 for $15 million | Louisiana Purchase |
| Overland expedition to the Pacific coast to bring back scientific date about the country | Lewis and Clark expedition |
| Jefferson sent a navy squad in response to constant attacks on vessels by pirates | Barbary War |
| The Supreme Court declared the Judiciary Acts of 1789 unconstiutional; JOHN MARSHALL | Marbury vs. Madison |
| 1807 law that prohibited foreign commerce | Embargo Act |
| Congressional leaders who wanted war against Britain to defend American honor and rights | War Hawks |
| War between Britain and U.S. because of British violations | War of 1812 |
| Spawned by the Madison administration's insensitivity towards New England states | Hartford Convention |
| Treaty signed by John Quincy Adams and Luis de Onis that gave Florida to America | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| gravel-surfaced toll roads | turnpikes |
| raw materials were delivered to people's homes, where they were paid to make products | "putting-out" system |
| Descriptive term for the era of President James Monroe | Era of Good Feelings |
| Provided a "home market" | American System |
| Compromise that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state | Missouri Compromise |
| Increased power of business corporations | Dartmouth College v. Woodward |
| Established the doctrine of "implied powers" | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| Affirmed the power of the congress to regulate interstate and commerce | Gibbons v. Ogden |
| Foreign policy stating the U.S. would keep out of European affairs if Europe kept out of U.S. affairs | Monroe Doctrine |
| direct rule by the masses of the people | democracy |
| Term for the political culture of white male citizens in the 1820s and 1830s | Jacksonian Democracy |
| 1828 tax on imports | Tariif of Abominations |
| Cherokee were forced to evacuate their lands and travel under military guard | Trail of Tears |
| the right of an individual state to set aside federal law | nullification |
| Andrew Jackson used his presidency to fight and destroy the second bank of the U.S. | Bank War |
| Mid 19th century political party that strongly favored commercial capitalism | Whigs |
| Executive order that required purchasers of public land to pay "specie", gold or coins | Specie Circular |
| A financial depression that lasted until the 1840s | Panic of 1837 |
| National two-part rivalry between Democrats and Whigs | Second party system |
| The slave-holding states in 1830-1860 | Old South |
| Period when slave labor and cotton production dominated the economies in the southern states | Antebellum Era |
| The first independent black-run protestant church in the United States | African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church |
| Network of safe houses organized by abolitionists to aid slaves in excaping slavery | Underground Railroad |
| Southern small landholders who owned no slaves and lived primarily in the foothills of the Appalachian and Ozark mountains | yeoman |
| Organization that hoped to provide a mechanism by which slavery could be elminated | American Colonization Sociey |
| Device for sperating the seeds from the fibers of short-staple cotton | cotton gin |
| Series of evangelical Protestant revivals that swept over America in the early 19th century | Second Great Awakening |
| Temperance crusade against alcohol that became a powerful social and political force | Temperance Crusade |
| Descirbed white women as guardians of the home in the antebellum period | Cult of Domesticity |
| America's first antislavery political party, formed in 1840 | Liberty Party |
| First women's rights convention that drafted the DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS | Seneca Falls Convention |
| Hopes for societal perfection that was widespread among evangelical Christians | utopianism |
| A religious group that advocated strict celibacy, gender equality, communial ownership | Shakers |
| Christian utopian community that earned notoriety instituting a from of "free love" | Oneida Community |
| American version of the romantic, idealist thought that emerged in Europe | transcendentalism |
| Transcendentalist commune that attracted many leading creative figures | Brook Farm |
| Young public figures in a movement that urged territy expansion and industrial growth | Young America |
| large mexican landowners | rancheros |
| Texas mexicans | tejanos |
| Agreement with Britain that resolved the boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick | Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
| American revolution in Texas at this fort in San Antonio | Alamo |
| Doctrine in support of territorial expansion based on the beliefs of pursuing expansion | Manifest Destiny |
| Conflict between U.S. and Mexico after the U.S. annexation of Texas because Mexico considered it still owned Texas | Mexican-American War |
| Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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