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Early National Period 1800 - 1850
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11th Grade
05/04/2010

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Term
First political parties emerge
Definition
After George Washington's second term
Term
Led to the formation of the first U.S. political parties
Definition
Controversy over the Federalists' support for the Bank of the United States, the Jay Treaty, and the undeclared war on France
Term

Leaders of the

 Federalists

Definition

Alexander Hamilton

John Adams

Term
Federalists Campaign
Definition

Strong national government

and

Industrial Economy

Term
Supported Federalists
Definition

bankers and business interests

of the northeast

Term
Led Democratic Republicans
Definition
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Term
Democratic Republican campaign
Definition

weak national government

and

agricultural economy

Term
Supported Democratic Republicans
Definition

farmers, artisans, and frontier settlers in the Southp>

Term

Chief Justice of Supreme Court

expanded Court's power

Definition
John Marshall
Term

significance of

Marbury v Madison

Definition
Established judicial review
Term
Election of 1800
Definition
Thomas Jefferson
first American presidential election in which power was peacefully transferred from one party to another
Term
purchased the Lousiana Territory
Definition

Thomas Jefferson doubled the

size of the United States

Term
Explored the Louisiana Territory
Definition

Meriwether Lewis

 and

William Clark

Term
Sacajawea
Definition
Indian woman who served as Lewis and Clark's guide and translater
Term
fought War of 1812
Definition

America and Great Britain

U.S. won

Term

Results of the

War of 1812

Definition

American claims Oregon Territory

Increased migration of American settlers

into Florida

Term
Monroe Doctrine states
Definition
U.S. would not get involved in South America and neither should European nations
Term
Monroe Doctrine states
Definition
U.S. would take European involvement in South America as a threat
Term
Monroe Doctrine states
Definition
No more European involvment in the Americas
Term
Monroe Doctrine States
Definition
The Western Hemisphere was different from Europe - governments were republics not monarchies
Term

significance of

McCulloch v Maryland

Definition

Power to tax is power to destroy.

Prohibited states from taxing agencies

of the federal government

Term
Manifest Destiny
Definition
Belief Americans were destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Term
Provided political support for
territorial expansion
Definition
policy of Manifest Destiny
Term
Trail of tears
Definition
several tribes forced to relocate from the Atlantic Coast states to Oklahoma
Term
Effect of westward movement on
American Indians
Definition
Removed from their ancestral homes and forced west or confined to reservations
Term
How long relocation of American
Indians lasted
Definition
Throughout the 19th century as settlers
moved west especially after the Civil
War
Term
American settlers move to the Midwest, Southwest and Texas
Definition
Seeking economic opportunity to own
and farm land
Term
Helped growth of industrial economy
and westward settlement
Definition
growth of railroads and canals
Term
Invention spread slavery
Definition
Eli Whitney's cotton gin
Term
Effect of migration into Texas
Definition
Armed revolt against Mexican rule
including the Battle at the Alamo
Term
Won the war in Texas
Definition
Texans
Eventually Texas applies for admission to
the Union
Term
Land acquired from the Mexican War
Definition
California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona,
parts of Colorado and New Mexico
Term
President when the "Age of the Common Man" emerged in American politics
Definition
Andrew Jackson
Term
Characterized American politics during the "Age of the Common Man"
Definition
Heightened emphasis on equality in the political process
The rise of interest group politics and sectional issues
Changing style of campaigning
Increase voter participation
Term
How Andrew Jackson personified the "democratic spirit"
Definition
By challenging economic elites and instituting the Spoils System
Term
Spoils System
Definition
practice of using public offices to benefit members of the victorious party
Term
New political policies emerged in the 1800s
Definition
The Federalist Party disappeared and the Whigs and Know-Nothings were organized in opposition to the Democratic Party
Term
Why North favors tariffs
Definition
protected Northern manufacturers from
foreign competitors
Term
Economy of the northern states
Definition
industrial economy based on manufacturing
Term
Southern economy
Definition
agricultural economy consisting of slavery
based system of plantations in the lowlands along the Atlantic and in the Deep South; small subsistence farmers in the foothills and valleys of the Appalachian Mts
Term
Why South opposes tariffs
Definition
made the price of imported manufactured
goods more expensive
Term
Act South Carolina tried to nullify in 1832
Definition
The Tariff of 1832
Term
Crisis South Carolina created
Definition
Nullifiction Crisis
Term
Nullification Crisis
Definition
A Union that allows its state governments to invalidate acts of the national legislature could be dissolved by states seceding from the Union in defense of slavery
Term
The threat President Jackson uses if South Carolina nullifies the Tariff of 1832
Definition
Send federal troops to collect the tariff revenues
Term
Issue dominated admission of new states
Definition
whether new states would allow slavery
Term
How states deal with sectional tensions over westward expansion
Definition
Compromised ino rder to maintaint he balance of power in Congress between "free" and "slave" states
Term
Missouri Compromise
Definition
Drew a boundary line through Louisiana Territory with allowed below the line, but slavery prohibited above the line, except in the case of Missouri
Term
Compromise of 1850
Definition
California admitted as a free state, but Utah and New Mexico would decide for themselves wheter to allow slavery in their states
Term
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Definition
repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery in their states
Term
Result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Definition
bloody fighting in Kansas as pro and anti slavery governments fought for power
gave rise to the birth of the Republican Party to oppose the spread of slavery
Term
Issue threatens to tear country apart
Definition
slavery
Term
Led abolitionist movement
Definition
William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the Liberator an antislavery news paper;
New England religious leaders who saw slavery as a violation of Christian principles
Term
Authored Uncle Tom's cabin
Definition
Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of New England clergyman;
told the plight of runaway slaves and how slavery broke up families
Term
Southern response to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Definition
Southerners were frightened by the
growing strength of Northern abolitionists
Term
How Fugitive Slave Act increased sectional tensions
Definition
Pitted slaveowners against outraged northerners who opposed returning escaped slaves to bondage
Term
Led slaves revolts in Virginia
Definition
Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser
Term
Slave revolts in Virginia
Definition
Harsher laws in the South against fugitive slaves and intimidated Southerners who favored abolition into silence
Term
Reform movement at the same time as the abolitionist movement
Definition
Women's suffrage movement
Term
Led Women's movement
Definition
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B Anthony
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