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Ch 12 vocab
US History Ch 12 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Convention of 1818 | Agreement between the US and G. Britain that settled fishing rights and established new N.American borders |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Agreement in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States |
| Monroe Doctrine | President James Monroe's statement forbidding further colonization in the Americas and declaring that the US would view any attempt as a hostile act |
| Missouri Compromise | agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter a free a state state; outlawed slavery in territories north of 36 30 line |
| American System | Henry Clay's plan for raising tariffs to pay for internal improvements such as roods and canals |
| Cumberland Road | first federal road project; ran from Maryland to W.Virginia |
| Erie Canal | canal that ran from Albany to Buffalo, New York |
| nominating conventions | meetings where a political party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidates |
| Democratic party | Political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824. |
| spoils system | politician's practice of giving government jobs to their supporters |
| kitchen cabinet | President Andrew Jackson's group of informal advisors; so called because they sometimes met in the White House kitchen |
| states' rights | belief that the power of the federal government regarding the states is strictly limited |
| nullification crisis | a dispute between S.Carolina and the federal government in the 1820's over the state's right to nullify (cancel) unpopular law |
| Whig party | political party formed by opponents of Andrew Jackson in 1834 who supported a strong legislature |
| Panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in the US that lead to an economic drepression |
| Indian Removal Act | Congressional act that authorized the removal of American Indians who lived east of the Mississippi River |
| Indian Territory | area covering most of present day Oklahoma to which most American Indians in the SE were forced to move in the 1830's |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | Government agency created in the 1800's to oversee federal policy toward American Indians |
| Trail of Tears | an 800 mile forced march made by the Cherokee Indians from their homeland in Georgia to the Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of thousands of Cherokee |
| Hudson River School | group of American artists in the mid-1800's whose pictures focused on the American landscape |
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