Question | Answer |
What was the importance of the election of 1800? | first time that one party had replaced another power in the US |
What was the 12th amendment? | created a separate ballot for president and vice president |
What was the judiciary act of 1801? | created 16 new federal judgeships that president Adams filled with federalists before leaving office (midnight judges) |
What is judicial review? | the power to declare an act of congress unconstitutional |
What event ended Napoleon's dream of building an empire in America in 1802? Why did Napoleon want to sell Louisiana territory? | Haitian Revolution. They needed supplies for war against Britain. |
What was the Louisiana purchase?
What was the expedition to explore this area called?
Who helped Lewis and Clark on their Journey? | the purchase of French land between the Mississippi river and rocky mountains that doubled the size of the US
Lewis and Clark expedition
sacagewa |
What did Zebulon's pike expedition offer Americans? | first description of the southwest |
What is impressment and which country practiced it? | the practice of forcing people to serve in the army (this led to increased tensions between Britain and the US |
what is an embargo? | banning of trade in a country |
What was the embargo act? | law prohibiting American merchant from trading with other countries |
What replaced the embargo act? | non-intercourse act (1809) |
Who was Tecumseh and what was his goal? | a Shawnee chief who warned the Indians about the danger they faced from white settlers and his goal was to unite natives of northwestern frontier, south and eastern Mississippi valley |
What was the difference of the war hawks and the doves? | War hawks wanted to fight and the doves wanted peace |
What was important about declaring war on Britain in 1812? | first time congress declared war in us history |
battle of Tippecanoe | us victory over Indian confederation
increased tension between US and Britain |
battle of thames river | us victory over a combined force of British troops and native americans..... Tecumseh died...... blow to Britain and native American alliance |
Battle of horseshoe Bend | US victory/Creek were forced to give up 23,000,000 acres of their land |
Attack on Fort McHenry | British reatreated and Americans refused to surrender |
Battle of New Orleans | Last major conflict of the war of 1812 Andrew Jackson became famous |
What was the treaty of what Jackson and what was the treaty of ghent | The Treaty of Fort Jackson was a treaty signed after the US one at Horshoe Bend. The Treaty of Ghent was a treaty signed by US and Britain ending the war |
What was ironic/surprising aboutHartford convention in 1815 | Meaning by the federalist to protest war but the war was already over |
What were the causes and effects of the war in 1812? | Causes-
Impressment by British
British military aid to NA
British interference with American shipping
Effects-
Increased national pride
Native American resistance weekend
American manufacturing boosted |
What was the rush/baguette agreement | Agreement that limited mental power on the great like for both the US and British Canada |
What was the convention of 1818 and what did it include | Agreement between US and great Britain that settled fishing rights and established new north American borders/. Gave US fishing right found land and Labrador coast // set between US and Canada that 49° latitude |
What was the Adams – onis treaty and what did it include | Spain gave Florida to US/includes settling all border disputes between Spain and America/America gave up claims in Texas and paid 5 million citizens claims against Spain |
What was the Monroe doctine | Forbidded foreign countries from colonization in Americas and any attempt to colonize by foreign countries would be considered hostile |
What is nationalism and sectionalism | Nationalism is a sense of pride and devotion to a country
Sectionalism is devotion to the interest on one geographic region over the country as a whole |
What was Henry Clay's American system and what did it include | Plan for raising Terrace to pay for internal improvements such as roads and canals/make the US economically self-sufficient by pushing for our national Bank to provide a single currency to make international trade easier and have a protective tarriff |
What was the era of good feelings that is associated with President Monroe | Period of peace pride and progress for the US in 1815 all the way to 1825 |
What was the Missouri compromise and what did it include | |
Mallberry versus Madison | Supreme Court that established judicial review |
McCulloch versus Maryland | Frank what that declared of US constitutional on the Maryland could not interfere |
Gibbons v ogden | Playing court rolling that reinforce the federal government authority over states |
What was considered the corrupt bargain | 1824 |
Why was nc nicknamed the rip van winkle state in the early 1800s | It was so far behind with everything |
What was the Hudson river school | One of American artist in the mid-1800s face painting focused on land |