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Quest of a Hemisp 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Andrew Jackson | Military hero and seventh president of the United States (1829-37). He was the first U.S. president to come from the area west of the Appalachians;"Old Hickory" |
| Robert Fulton | American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, |
| Civil Service Act | Government employees take exams for government positions and cannot be fired if their work is satisfactory vs people in high positions hiring "friends". |
| Doctrine of Nullification | a state had the right to nullify a law passed by Congress if a majority of it's citizens agreed it was unfair to their interests. |
| Daniel Webster | American lawyer and statesman who served as the U.S. Secretary of State under 3 Presidents : "Defender of the Constitution": defended rights of southern Indians to keep their land. |
| "The Trail of Tears" | Forced relocation during the 1830s of Indians of the Southeast region of the United States, the "Five Civilized Tribes", to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.15,000 died during the journey west |
| Indian Removal Bill | A bill to move Indians from their ancestral holdings east of the Mississippi to the western prairie. |
| Hudson Bay Company | incorporated in England on May 2, 1670, to seek a northwest passage to the Pacific, to occupy the lands adjacent to Hudson Bay, and to carry on any commerce /fur trade |
| Pacific Fur Company | Founded in June 1810 by John Jacob Astor , an American fur trade company that operated from 1810 to 1813 in the Pacific Northwest |
| Consequences of the fur trade in the Northwest | *Missionaries went to the Northwest Indian tribes * Settlers began moving NWest bc missionaries spread word of the beautiful land there *Disease and alcohol were damaging to the Indians |
| Panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s |
| What caused the Panic of 1837 ? | *Massive inflation due to the rapid increase in money supply. *A collapse in cotton prices due to overproduction in the US *Specie Circular and Deposit Act of 1836;payment for government land to be in gold and silver * Lack of a National Bank |
| Results of Panic of 1837 | *Great migration to Oregon *Factories shut down *Banks closed *Inflation *Riots of people demanding food |
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