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US History Unit 2
Expansion and reform
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11th Grade
02/07/2011

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Adams-Onis Treaty
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Was a treaty between united states and Spain was negotiated by secretary of state Jonh Quincy adams and the spanish minister Don luis de Onis and signed in february 1819. The reason from the treaty was the icquisition of florida by the US and the stablished of a boundary line between spanish territory and the US.


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Nationalism
Definition

Expand markets, industries and business.

Improve roads, transportations, create new methods of transportation.

Is a feeling that all american fell, like being proud of the country or being proud how the nation is growing or going.

 

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American System
Definition

Was created after the war of 1812.

This system would start a tax on american goods.

The US Goverment would create National roads and the buildings of canals, like the Erie canal.

Would restablished Bank of the US called 2nd bank of the US

President Madison, Monroe, Henry Clay and John Q support this, but John C calhoun did not soupport it because it would make high tariff and will hurt southern trades.

The plan was proposed in 1816, and by 1832 the plan was dead.

The plan was part of expanding american business andt rade but farmers did not like this.

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Monroe Doctrine

 

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The Monroe Doctrine was the declaration by President James Monroe, in December 1823, that the United States would not tolerate Eurpean nations to colonize nation in north and south America.
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Era of good Feelings

 

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It was called after the war of 1812, when all sections were anxious to go back to a normal life and forget about political issues.

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Sectionalism
Definition
Admission of new states, the first economic depression in 1819.
Mcculloch v. Maryland - national bank.
Gibbons v. Ogden - federal power over states.
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Mccullought v. Maryland
Definition
national bank was constitutional.
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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Federal power over state for interstate and foreign commerce
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Panic of 1819
Definition
The nations experience its first economic depression.
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Missouri compromise of 1820
Definition
Admission of new states would change the power in the senate.
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Election of 1824
Definition
John Quincy adams and andrew jackson.
Tied election. Henry Clay convinsed congress to vote for adams.
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Corrupt Bargain
Definition
That clay helped get adams elected in return for the cabinet position
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Tariff Abomination
Definition
Adams signed a new tariff into law in 1828
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Jacksonian Democracy
Definition
Andrew jackson was elected in 1828.
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Universal manhood suffrage
Definition
white males were no longer required to have property to vote.
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Spoils system
Definition
average men should run their own goverment.
appointed friends and supporters to high positions of goverments.
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Democrats
Definition
jacksons supporters
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Whigs
Definition
National republicans
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John C. Calhoun
Definition
began to organize agains the tariffs.
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Exposition and protest
Definition
arguing that states could refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws
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Bank war
Definition
Jackson believed the national bank was only to aid the rich and the powerful.
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Pet Banks
Definition
state banks that received deposits of federal money
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Panic of 1837
Definition
economic chaos.
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Cotton gin
Definition
its a machine that separate the seeds from the cotton, the machine was so fast that need of more slaves.
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Cotton Kingdom
Definition
a cotton-producing region of the southern United States up until the Civil War.
the time were they was so much cotton.
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John deere
Definition
Invented the steel plow was to plant in hard soil.
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Cyrus McCormick
Definition
Invented the mechanical reaper it was to harvest wheat.
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Industrial revolution
Definition
Was when all the machines began to replace manual labor.
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Factory systems
Definition
A Method of manufacturing
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Interchangeable parts
Definition
Machines that were broke they would need to throw it away Eli Whitney invented the idea of interchageable parts. this means that the parts of the machine that doesnt work can be replace it by a new one.
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Nativism
Definition
An extreme dislike for immigrants by native-born people and a desire to limit immigration
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known nothing
Definition
a secret society electing states officials to ban immigration.
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Industrial revolution
Definition
Began replacing manual labor with machines powered by coal and steam
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Erie canal
Definition
connected to NYC
made NYC a commercial center
make goods.
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robert fulton
Definition
invented the steamboat, increases movement and trade
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internal Improvements
Definition
there was ,more population, more cars more houses.
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Manifest Destiny
Definition
a signal that god gave to americans to go and conquer the west.
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oregon trail
Definition
settlers and trappers would follow the path taken by lewis and clark.
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India removal act
Definition
force the creek and cherokee movement to smaller reservations.
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Worcester v. Georgia
Definition
Georgia abolish tribal rule and claimed jurisdiction.
Supreme court ruled that states could not interfere with federal indian treaties. the federal.
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trail of tears
Definition
a lot of people died when government assistance that had been promised did not show up.
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Texas annexation
Definition
became the battle cry of Texas independence.
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Definition
when the US had a mojor disputes with Britain over borders in the north.
they a free on boundaries around Maine and the great lakes.
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Fifty-four forty or fight
Definition
Oregon settlers class with the british at northern border.
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Election of 1844
Definition
I think it was about if texas should be or not be part of the US.
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Wilmot Provise
Definition
a bill introduced by David Wilmot he was trying to abolished slavery any lands acquired from mexico but he couldn't do it.
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Mexican-American war
Definition
the desire of the U.S. to expand across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean caused conflict with all of its neighbors; from the British in Canada and Oregon to the Mexicans in the southwest and, of course, with the Native Americans.
the Texas War of Independence and the subsequent annexation of that area to the United States. Not all American westward migration was unwelcome.
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Definition
signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American war.Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. America, for the land,US payed $15M to Mexico, and left Mexico City which the United States had taken during the war.
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Mexican cession
Definition
When Mexico handed over the southwest territory.
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Gold rush
Definition
This period was when there where found gold all workers stop doing what they are doing and they go where they found gold and start looking for gold.
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Gold rush
Definition
This period was when there where found gold all workers stop doing what they are doing and they go where they found gold and start looking for gold.
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Gadsden Purchase
Definition
It was purchased to get approval for a southern railroad route to the Pacific Coast in that territory.
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Noah Webster
Definition
he was the author of writing the American Dictionary of the English language and the American Spelling Book.
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neoclassical architecture
Definition
architectural styles produced by the neoclassical movement (neoclassical revival of an earlier classical style)
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Washington Irving
Definition
An American author for sell a lot of books.
wrote the legend of sleepy hollow and rip van winkle.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Definition
he thought evil and sin where part of human nature.
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James Fenimore Cooper
Definition
Wrote American tales of the west.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Definition
American author & philosopher. Wrote "nature" and "self-reliance"
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Henry David Thoreau
Definition
Inspired Mahatma Gandhi & Martin Luther King, Jr. to use non-violence to protest injustices committed by your government & society.
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Transcendentalist
Definition
A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
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