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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| War of 1812 | trying to take canada from GB; war between GB and US bc Brits gave guns to indians to kill americans, and attacked US ships. |
| Erskine Affair | british diplomat that got drunk at a gov dinner and said england is going to cave to the nonintercourse act; said orders of council will be rescinded, but didn't. Madison publishes this w/o doing research and received backlash for it. |
| Macon's Bill #2 | repealed nonintercourse act and replaced it; US will trade with every european nation. |
| Tecumseh and the Prophet | Tecumseh brought his brother as a "motivational speaker" to other tribes to convince them to band together "The Prophet" Tecumseh's brother who attempted to assimilate into western society, but became a drunk |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | Harrison defeated Tecumseh; found GB guns in indian headquarters. |
| William Harrison | old indian fighter; american military leader, politician & 9th president attacked prophetstown where tecumseh's headquarters were. Found evidence that GB were giving indians guns and ammunition to kill americans. |
| Battle of Queenston Heights | first major battle of war of 1812; militia never showed up. |
| Battle of the Thames River | victory for US; killed Tecumseh in this battle. |
| USS Constitution | most famous ship in US history; ship that didn't sink; "iron sides". Served in the navy til it retired |
| Fort McHenry | GB shot missiles and cannons for 24 hours into baltimore |
| Francis Scott Key | waiting for "dawn's early light" he sees the american flag over fort mchenry and wrote poem about fort mchenry "star spangled banner" into a drinking song. |
| Battle of New Orleans | american victory and launched career of Andrew Jackson |
| Hartford Convention | northern states first established the concept of states' rights and secession in Hartford, Connecticut. |
| Peace of Ghent | treaty ended war of 1812; status quote antebellum (we're gonna go back to how we were before) turning the clock back and acting like it never happened to be "friends" with England. |
| Rush-Bagot Treaty | created longest demilitarized border with US and canada; shows trust w england. |
| 1818 Convention | Canada and America arguing over what the canadian border was (territory that is now Oregon). We agree to share that territory for 10 years until something is worked out. |
| James Monroe | 5th president; Heightened sense of nationalism after the War of 1812. New identity. No more federalists after the War of 1812. There is more political union than before. Recharter the bank. Begin to expand. "Era of good feelings" |
| Seminole War | indians are crossing through Florida to Georgia to kill Americans and run back to florida (a foreign country at the time). Jackson and his military destroy the Seminole Indians. While he's there he claims the Florida territory |
| Adams-Ons Treaty | US will take florida from spain & agree to not touch other territories in america (Texas) had to agree to the purchase of 42nd parallel, giving up TX. america didn't violate the treaty. |
| Missouri Compromise | agreement that est Missouri and Maine; missouri becoming a slave state and maine as a free state; almost caused a civil war. |
| Henry Clay | prevented civil war and was called "the great conciliator" |
| Corrupt Bargain | The controversial deal that led to the first modern election in 1828. Henry Clay used his persuasion in congress to get Adams elected. |
| 1828 election | first "modern" election; first time for media campaigning; jackson hates adams & andrew jackson won the election. |
| Andrew Jackson | The seventh President who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans. As president he opposed the BofA, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. |
| Spoils System | A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends. Jackson made this a known policy. |
| Tariff of Abominations | tax on imported british clothes, strengthening new england clothes & destroyed southern economy; cripple the southern economy. Southerners are furious and think it is done on purpose |
| John Calhoun | secretary of war under President Monroe and the John Quincy Adams's Vice President; state's rights, limited central government, and the power of nullification were necessary to preserve the Union. |
| Nullification Crisis | An incident that included the near invasion of South Carolina by American troops. If the federal government does not comply to the nullification of the law, the state can secede from the union. |
| Webster-Hayne Debate | Hayne first responded to Daniel Webster's argument of states' rights vs national power, with the idea of nullification. Webster then spent 2 full afternoons delivering his response "Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable" |
| Force Bill | Legislation sparked by the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina, that authorized the president's use of the army to compel states to comply with federal law. Jackson will raise an army and hold South Carolina at gunpoint to not leave the union |
| Sequoya | made alphabet for cherokee tribe and tried to resemble the US |
| Worcester v. Georgia | Cherokee sued Georgia for violating the treaty that gave them rights to the land |
| Indian Removal Act | tribes in georgia need to leave and US gov will pay them to leave in order to guarantee safety to oklahoma. |
| Trail of Tears | native journey to oklahoma by foot; most of them died otw there. |
| Whigs | revolutionary Patriots. Political party founded in 1834 in opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats; Whigs supported federal funding for internal improvements, a national bank, and high tariffs on imported goods. |
| Martin Van Buren | referred to as "The Little Magician" and became next president after Jackson |
| John Tyler | elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died 1841-1845, President responsible for annexation of Mexico after receiving mandate from Polk, opposed many parts of the Whig program for economic recovery |
| James Polk | true father of Manifest Destiny |
| Manifest Destiny | A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. |
| Oregon Trails | Trail Route of wagon trains bearing settlers from Independence, Missouri, to the Oregon Country in the 1840s to 1860s |
| James Bridger | first American to see the Great Salt Lake; mapped out The Oregon Trail |
| Christopher "Kit" Carson | Serves the US military in the Mexican-American War, Civil War, walks barefoot 30+ miles the remaining way to San Diego |
| John Charles Fremont | sometimes called "The Great Pathfinder". Describes that part of the country as a "Garden of Eden". wanted to take California from Mexico; claimed he did and called it the "Bear Republic". Christopher Carson is his guide and shows him how to survive; Frem |
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