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US History
5.5 The Era of Good Feelings
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hartford Convention | Meeting of a group of New England Federalists who opposed the war of 1812 and proposed that the New England states secede from the US |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Agreement in which Spain agreed to sell East Florida to the US for $5 million and which established the boundary of Spanish territory west of the Mississippi River |
| Monroe Doctrine | Declaration of President Monroe that European nations could not intervene in the Western Hemisphere except where they already had colonies and that the US would not meddle in European affairs |
| American System | Plan proposed by Henry Clay which called for a new national bank, protective tariffs, and federal funds for internal improvements |
| Panic of 1819 | An economic collapse that hurt southern and western farmers particularly hard |
| Missouri Compromise | Agreement proposed in 1820by Henry Clay in which Main would enter the union as a free state, Missouri would enter as a slave state, and slavery would be prohibited in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory north of 36 degree 30 |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | Supreme Court ruling that a state can not tax the federal government or interfere with Congress's ability to enact legislation that is necessary and proper to carry out its delegated powers |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | Supreme Court decision which ruled that where the Constitution entrusted Congress with a power, the states had no right to interfere with that power. |
| Protective tarriff | a high tax on imports designed to shield a nation's manufacturers from foreign competition |