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US History
US History study stack
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nationalism | devotions to the interest and culture of ones own nation |
| sectionalism | placing the interests of ones own region or section ahead of the interests of the nation. |
| Louisiana Purchase | doubles the size of the US "yay land" |
| Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) | Spain gives up Florida to the US and gives up its claims to the oregon territory |
| Problem with Missouri | it would gradually free it's slaves |
| Missouri Compromise | 36 latitude and above would be free; below would be slaves |
| The Monroe Doctrine | The western hemisphere was closed to European Colonization and interface. |
| Election of 1824 | John Quincy Adams becomes the 6th president. |
| Election of 1828 | Andrew Jackson (cheese hater) wins by a landslide and becomes the 7th president. |
| Spoils System | Jackson hired his own supporters to replace previous staff - fired nearly 10% of federal employees |
| Indian Removal Act | Law required all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River must leave their land and move to Indian Territory. |
| Trail of Tears | Part of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal policy. Native Americans were forced to march 22000 miles. |
| Worchester v. Georgia (1832) | States did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American Land. |
| North (Tariff Issues) | Favored high tariff (Factories) |
| South (Tariff Issues) | Viewed potential tariff as an abomination (needed to export cotton cheaply) |
| West (Tariff Issues) | Sided w/the North in tariff debate. |
| Nullification Crisis (John C. Calhoun) | Calhoun argued States' rights and declared tax was null and void. Resulting compromise being reached, and Jackson reduced the tariff. |
| The Whig Party (Henry Clay) | Supported the American System, Protective tariff, and internal improvements |
| North (economic) | Based on industry and manufacturing |
| South (economic) | Based on farming |
| Henry Clay's American System | -Physically connect the regions -Make American goods affordable -Revive National Bank |
| Factors contributing to Nationalism | -American System -Monroe Doctrine -Westward expansion |
| Factors contributing to Sectionalism | -Industrial Revolution -Slavery -Protective Tariff |
| Manifest Destiny | belief that the United States had the god-given right to expand West. |
| Mormon Trail | Led by Brigham Young in 1846. Settled in Salt Lake Valley and founded Utah |
| Texas Fights for Independence | Texans will revolt and win their independence from Mexico |
| Who became President of the Republic of Texas? | Sam Houston |
| Treaty of Guadalupe | United States acquired New Mexico, California, and Arizona |
| Gadsden Purchase (1853) | Established current borders of the lower 48 states |
| Significance of the Mexican-American War | Established bad relations between the U.S. and Mexico |
| California Gold Rush | Started in 1849. California joined the Union in 1850 as a free state. |
| Seneca Falls Convention 1848 | First woman's rights convention held in the U.S. Published the declaration of sentiments |
| The Fugitive Slave Act | Law required citizens to catch and return runaway slaves |
| Wilmot Proviso | Wanted to ban slavery in any lands won from Mexico. (fails to pass) |
| Compromise of 1850 (Henry Clay) | -California becomes free -popular sovereignty (voting) would decide the slavery issues. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | Nebraska territory would be split into 2 territories. Idea was that one would be free state and the other would be slave state. |
| Bleeding Kansas | -John Brown carried -Out a midnight execution -killed 5 pro-slavery settlers |
| Kansas becomes 34th state: | Free |
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