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History 1301 (3)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Was signed on Feb. 1848. The U.S. got Texas, New Mexico, and California for $15 million. |
| John Fremont | While Mexico was tied up, John Fremont declared independence. |
| Mexican War | Polk sought to provoke with Mexico to gain territory. Sent John Slidell to negotiate about Texas border then sent Zachary Taylor to lead band of troops to blockade Rio Grande. After 6 months, shots are fired, Polk seeks and gets declaration of war. |
| USS Princeton incident | USS Princeton was a warship. -- Feb. 1844: Tyler, other politicians were among elite group invited aboard ship for a cruise on Potomac River and demo of its new cannon, the Peacemaker. -- While Tyler was below deck, cannon exploded, killing 6 p |
| Fort Laramie Treaty | |
| Manifest Destiny | God given right to expand west. |
| Utopian experiments | |
| Seneca Falls Convention | |
| Catharine Beecher | |
| Cult of domesticity | |
| Dorothea Dix | |
| Temperance movement | |
| Cherokee Constitution | |
| Emerson and Thoreau | |
| Nullification controversy and compromise | |
| Brigham Young | |
| The bank war | |
| Joseph Smith | |
| Panic of 1819 | |
| Second Great Awakening | |
| Peggy Eaton affair | |
| “Rational religion” movements | |
| Spoils system | |
| Clara Barton | |
| The corrupt bargain | |
| Crawford Williamson Long | |
| Era of Good Feelings | |
| John Mercer Langston | |
| Nationalist Diplomacy | |
| Charles Goodyear | |
| McCulloch vs. Maryland | |
| Elias Howe | |
| Missouri Compromise | When Missouri south to get in the Union, there were 22 states - 11 free, 11 slave. Missouri came in as a slave state and Maine a free state. NO MORE SLAVES STATES ALLOWED NORTH OF MISSOURI'S SOUTHERN BORDER. |
| Levi Strauss | |
| Stages of American economic development | |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | |
| The American System | Promoted by Henry Clay. Called for: 1. High tariffs. 2. High prices for federal lands with the money being given to the states for internal improvements. 3. Strong national bank to regulate the money supply. |
| Cyrus McCormick | |
| Cumberland Road | |
| Jesse Hawley | |
| Treaty of Ghent | |
| Robert Fulton | |
| Battle of New Orleans | |
| Eli Whitney | |
| War of 1812 causes and results | New prez James Madison faces same decision later, but leads U.S. into war. -- War with England started because of communications lag. British finally withdrew Orders in Council, but news didn’t arrive until after U.S. declared war. -- U.S. cited |
| War of 1812 causes and results | |
| John Ross | |
| Chesapeake incident | U.S. vessel sailing off Va. was fired upon by British vessel called the Leopard. -- British seized two British deserters from U.S. ship, took them to Canada. -- Some Americans called for war, but Jefferson didn’t have a military force. |
| Elias Boudinot | |
| John Ridge | |
| Major Ridge | |
| Continental System | |
| Trail of Tears | |
| Orders in Council | |
| Worcester vs. Georgia | |
| Lewis and Clark | |
| Indian Removal Act | |
| Louisiana Purchase | |
| Georgia’s conflict with Cherokees | |
| Marbury vs. Madison | Case established judicial review: Supreme Court could rule whether a law was constitutional. |
| Northwest Ordinance | Banned slavery in the NW, but no such policy existed for states formed from Louisiana Territory. |
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