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8th Grade
01/20/2009

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Who cast the deciding votes for the presidential election of 1824? (The winner of the popular vote wasn't elected because he didn't get enough votes from...)
Definition
The House of Representatives
Term
What treaty gave us East Florida from Spain?
Definition
Adams-Onis Treaty
Term
What was one of the conflicts between the U.S. and British
Canada?
Definition
fishing rights on the Great Lakes
Term
What drew a border between U.S. and Canada at the 49th parallel?
Definition
the Convention of 1818
Term
What did the Monroe Doctrine say that the U.S. had to do concerning Great Britain?
Definition
They wouldn't mess with conflicts or wars in the European Nations
Term
Why did both the U.S. and Canada have an interest in Oregon Country?
Definition
the fur trade
Term
THe Monroe Doctrine stated that the European Nations had to do what?
Definition
stay out of Latin American affairs.
Term
Who's presence in Florida finally convince Spanish leaders to settle disputes with U.S. colonists and such?
Definition
Andrew Jackson
Term
What did the Monroe Doctrine do?
Definition
it placed Latin America in the U.S.'s sphere of influence
Term
What caused conflict in the early 1800's between the U.S. and the Seminoles?
Definition
the Seminoles were raiding U.S. settlements and aiding runaway slaves.
Term
Why was President Monroe concerned when Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821?
Definition
because he thought European powers might try to colonize new Latin American countries.
Term
Why did Americans support Latin American struggles for freedom from Spain?
Definition
it reminded them of their country's fight for independence from Britain
Term
Who proposed placing a tariff on foreign goods to specifically finance the building of new roads and canals?
Definition
Henry Clay
Term
What maintained balance between the free and slave states?
Definition
the Missouri Compromise
Term
Who became president in the election of 1824?
Definition
John Quincy Adams
Term
What was the importance of keeping the number of slave states and free states equal using the Missouri Compromise?
Definition
to prevent regional conflicts from dividing the nation
Term
What is sectionalism?
Definition
becoming divided over the interest of the region you represent
Term
Who created the Missouri Compromise and convinced Congress to accept it?
Definition
Henry Clay
Term
What hindered the builders of the Cumberland Road?
Definition
the dense, thick forests
Term
What was the primary goal of Clay's American System?
Definition
to make America economically independent
Term
What were the causes of the rising sense of nationalism in the U.S. in the early 1800's?
Definition
the end of the War of 1812, the successful negotiations with foreign powers and the confident tone of the Monroe Doctrine
Term
Why were some members of Congress against using Federal funds to build railroads, roads, and canals?
Definition
they didn't believe that the Constitution gave them the right to.
Term
What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Gibbons vs. Ogden?
Definition
the states couldn't interfere with the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
Term
What two Supreme Court decisions strengthen the feeling of national unity in the U.S. by reinforcing the power of the federal government?
Definition
McCullach vs. Maryland and Gibbons vs. Ogden
Term
What was the first road built by the federal government?
Definition
the Cumberland Road
Term
What type of writing style did Washington Irving use that was popular in the U.S. in the early 19th century?
Definition
satire
Term
Because of whose writings, painters in the U.S. began to show the history and natural beauty of America in their work?
Definition
Irving and Cooper
Term
What was the importance of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper?
Definition
he popularized historical fiction
Term
What was the Hudson River School?
Definition
a group of artists whose focus was on painting the Hudson River Valley
Term
What did the paintings produced by students of the Hudson River School reflect?
Definition
the feeling of national pride in America and an appreciation of landscapes
Term
What did American music in the early 1800's focus on?
Definition
religion and national pride
Term
How did the subjects of American paintings change from the 1830's to the 1840's?
Definition
earlier paintings mainly focused on portraits while later work focused on people's daily lives and landscapes
Term
What were Thomas Cole's contributions to early American art?
Definition
he encouraged artists to appreciate the unique qualities of the American landscape and to show the beauty of nature
Term
What were the new American culture's views on education in the early 1800's reflected by?
Definition
education reforms that the new culture was a democracy that needed educated and informed citizens to survive, so public schools were supported.
Term
Maine would enter as a free sate according to what?
Definition
the Missouri Compromise
Term
What was expressed by popular American folk songs such as "Hunters of Kentucky" in the early 1800's?
Definition
nationalism
Term
What contributed to the eventual abolition of slavery in that it prohibited slavery in states and territories north of Missouri's southern border?
Definition
the Missouri Compromise
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George Caleb Bingham's painting "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri" illustrated what?
Definition
the new development in American art of the inclusion of scenes from people's every day lives in landscaping
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