| Question | Answer |
| american foreign policy? | how a country deals with other countries |
| ruch bagot agreement | -limited navel power on the great lakes between US and britian
-agree to share fishing rights on the lakes |
| convention of 1818 | -set the border between US and Canada in the west
-agreed to share oregon country |
| who controls florida | spain |
| why did andrew jackson invade florida | his excuse was the siminoles were invading but really it was to force spain to sign the adams onis treaty |
| adams onis treaty 1819 | US gets flordia
US gives up claimes to texas
us pays spain 5 million |
| what led to the monroe doctrine | many european countries are weakend due to years of war so colonies in north and south america begin to rebel and gain independance |
| Y does the US want newly independant colonies to stay independant | so we would have more trade |
| monroe doctrin 1823 | -US WILL NOT mess with european countries
-no new colonies in north or south america
-if european countries try to make new colonies or try to interfere with the new independant ones, US will consider that an act of war |
| era of good feelings 1815-1825 | time of
nationalism
economic growth
expansion
peace |
| sectionalism | disagreements between two regions of the country
mainy about slavery |
| what led to the missouri compromise 1820 | MO wanted to join the union as a slave state
this would disrupt the balance between free and slave states |
| missiouri compromise says: | -MO enters as a slave state
- maine enters as a free state
- slavery prohibited in any new state north of the southern border of MO |
| who ran in the election of 1824 | jackson
clay
adams |
| what were the results of the election of 1824 | jackson got most popular votes
adams got most electoral votes
house of reps decide
clay is out
adams wins |
| how did adams win in the election of 1824 | people called it the corprit bargon
it was kind of a deal between clay and adams thatif clay told all the reps to vote for adams then adams would make clay sec. of state |
| Jacksonian democracy mid 1820s-1840 | -period of time when more people were allowed to become more included in the political process
-all white males were allowed to vote
- time were "the common man" was represented in government |
| who was not allowed to vote | woman, most free blacks, indians are not allowed to vote |
| TRUE OR FALSE: native american tribes were considered nations | TRUE |
| indian removal act - 1830 | jackson forced all native americans east of the MO river to move to indian territory - olahoma |
| how did indians try to become more civilized? | -indians lived on plantations
-owned slaves
-they had a written language
-they had a constition
-converted to christianity
-there towns looked just like settelers town |
| why did indians try to act more civilized? | so the settlers would treat them better |
| name 2 reasons the settlers wanted the indians to move | land and gold |
| worcester vs gorgia 1832 | supreme court ruled that gorgia connot pass laws governing cherokee territory |
| jackson's FAKE reasons for the removal act | they wanted the best for the indians
-didnt want them to be messed with by the white
-wanted them to continue there culture without harm |
| jacksons REAL resons for the removal act | land and gold |
| what happend to the indians who stayed and didnt leave | they were rounded up and put in camps
-1/5 died in the camps |
| describe the north | manufacturing and tradde
-supported tarrifscuz it made people but goods
-opposed gov selling land in the west for cheap because the poor ppl would move
therre and wouldnt work in factories
-likes slavery in the south not north |
| describe the south | farming
slavery
opposed tarriffs |
| west | new economy on subsistance farming
mixed views on slaves
suported tariffs if money goes to them |
| nulification crisis 1828 | congress passed high tarrif
south said that it was unconstitutional for fed gov to pass laws that only benifitted one region |
| states rights doctrine | states created federal government, so states should be more powerful
if state feel a law is unconstitutional that can nulify it
- |
| nulification act 1832 | south carolina would not follow tarril law
-if fed gov tried to make them folllow it SC
would seccede
jackson wouls send an army if they seceeded
south carolia would create its own |
| 1833 - compromise tarrif | crisis ends |
| national bank 1816 | congress renews charter for bank 2o year charter |
| why did people oppose the national bank | only helps the wealthy and was uncontinal |
| 1832 how does jackson kill the bank | orders all the money to be moved to state banks |
| y did banks go out of buissness | loaned out to much money to poor people who want to buy land
lead to inflation |
| what did jackson do about inflation | made poeple who want to buy land from gov |
| panic of 1837 | severe economic depression |
