Term
|
Definition
| Patriot. Beleived USA could rebuild itself with democrocy and public education for boys and girls. Wanted to free Americans of luxery and conspicuous consumption. Beleivd WAR was evil. "father of madern phsychatry". Suprter of anti slavery. Helped poor by giving medical treatment free of charge. Created Dickenson College |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Federalist. First secertary of the USA treasury. Created the firt BANK OF THE USA. made better trade with britain. Opposed Thomas Jefferson |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| First president. Lead General in Revolutionary War. Supported Federalist system. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| (1786-1787) Armed uprising in central and western Massachusets led by Daniel Shey against rising taxes and debt consiquinces. Most of rebelion was poor farmers. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Foraml annoucment by George Washington to announce America neutral stance in the conlict between France and Britain |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Compromise that counted 3/5 of the slave population as people. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Anti-Federalist. 3rd president. Sent Louis and Clark. Great inventor. Effctive president due to his perosonality. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
4 laws.
1.The Naturalization Act-extended the duration of residence required for aliens to become citizens of the United States from five years to fourteen years.
2.The Alien Friends Act-authorized the president to deport any resident alien considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States."
3.The Alien Enemies Act-authorized the president to apprehend and deport resident aliens if their home countries were at war with the United States of America.
4.The Sedition Act-made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government or its officials. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Treaty between Great Britain and USA that calmed tensions after the revolutionary war. Promissed sole trading to britian and not france. Also Britain had to vacate its soldiers from the six western forts (1796) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| opposed constitution. Beleived a central government would have too much power. Said Constitution lacked Bill of Rights |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| @nd President. One of the "Founding Father of the USA." Conservatve Fedealist. Helped drat te Decleration of Independance |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Protest on the taxation of whiskey during George Washingtons presidency. Mostly opposed by farmers who used their corn to make whisky |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Pushed for a central government. Opposed Anti-Federlists. Wanted to ratify the constitution. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Opened up the west to American development |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| event where the French demanded consessions from USA sue to the signing of the Jay treaty. Led to Alien ad Sedition Acts |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Explorers sent to discover the west. Sent by Thomas Jefferson. Led by Sacajuia (spellng) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Act of a slave owner freeing his slaves before the passage of the 13th amendment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| After the establishment of the 2nd Bank of USA, Maryland imposed a tax on all notes that were not from Maryland |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 7th President. "old Hickory" Military leader in the Battle of New Orleans. led to the creation of the modern Democratic Party. Pro slavery and pro indian removal. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Convention that was brought about by New England's talk of secceson due to the war of 1812. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Soldiers retreated as British soldiers moved towards Washington DC. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| election of 1824. (John Quincy Adams, Hnery Clay, Andrew Jackson) John Quincy Adams won the elction as a reslut of Clay's support. Adams appointent Clay as secretary of state which led Jackson to see the election as "corrupt" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The long journey of Indains westward after being forced out of their land by the USA gov. Filled with much sorrow and death |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Nickname for the Creek indians. Involved in the creek war of 1813. Led by Tecumseh. Opposed white rule and other white allied indians |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Clause making an investor only responsible for the amount paid to purchase stock |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| abolishonist who edited "The Liberator". Big in the womans sufrage movement |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Legal theory that states that a US state has the right to denounce a federal law if it seen as unconstituional. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 4th President. "father of the constitution" Stressed importance of checks and balences |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Eastern Algonquin indians. Had controle of northern states (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| treaty turning over land (such as Ohio) from indians to westerns after the battle fallen timbers |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| economic plan for a high tarrif in order for internal improovments |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| inventor of the cotton gin |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| gov was in the real estate buiseness and ofered acers for CHEAP. sped up western expansion |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| prohibiton of mechant ships from entering or leaving a particular port |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| law that lifted all embargos with Franc and Britain |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Federalist who shaped Americn constitutional law. Made supreame court a center of power |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Gave Federal gov power over interstate commerce |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| 8th president.secrtary of state under andrew jackson. Big in the founding of the democratic party |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Leader of the Whig party. Opposed the democratic party. Nationalist. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Final major battle of the war of 1812. Andrew Jackson defeated invading brittish troops entering Luisiana |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Attempts by Andrew Jackson to break up the 2nd American Bank. The bank had considerable influence over all finacial matters of the US. Jackson aw the bank as monopoly |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Shawnee leader of the indian confederacy. Opposed white movement onto indian lands of the west |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Odd american merchant who became rich for thinking "outsde the box". Sent warming pans to west indies. America had a cat investition and Dexter bought all the cats and sent them overseas to combat a mice problem.....RICH! |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| law allowing cooperations to be formed without the charter of legislation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| African American abolistionist and fighter of woman' rights |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| depriving church of its rights in the state |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| policy which said thta an attempts of Europe to colonize in America would be seen as an act of aggresion |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| French ambassador to the united states during the French Revolution |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| relegious revival in the 19th century based on "Arminian Theory" which said that everybody could be saved through revivals. Intended to remedy social situations before the seconcoming of Jesus Christ |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Part of Massachusets that was large in the textile industry. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| invinted the reaper for harvesting wheat |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Theory to combat overwelming number of immigrants in the East. Proposed to give free land in the west to ovid ove population in the east |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Term for small US navy leading up to the war of 1812 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| prohibited neutral vessels from entering ports on the French coast between Elbe and Brest unless they carried products of its own country or those of Great Britain. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
*1st time supreame court ruled somthing "unconstitutional" |
|
|
Term
| B.U.S. (Bank of the United States) |
|
Definition
| The Bank was created to handle the financial needs and requirements of the central government of the newly formed United States, which had previously been thirteen individual states with their own banks, currencies, financial institutions, and policies. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| KENTUCKIAN BITCHES!! "great compromiser" Senetor from Kentucky. Big in compromising the Nuillification Acts. Secretary of state under John Qincy Admas |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Southern politician from (SC)who redefined "republican". Advocated slavery and minority rights wich was accepted in the south but not the north |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| General during the war of 1812. Very professional. Closeest to taking Canada butlost too many troops |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| fraction of the democratic party. opposed monopolies. dubber the "equal rights party" |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Battle led by William Henry Harrilson against the growing indian confederacy. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| inventor/merchant. built the first amusment park. Got rich of inventing away to cut and ship ice all over the world. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| disputes about letting missouri into the union as a slave or anti slave state. Led to the Mizzouri Comprimise in which it was let in as a slave state because Maine was made into a free state thanks to Henry Clay |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| rule that limits or forbids the raising, consideration or discussion of a particular topic by members of a legislative or decision-making body |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| treaty between the United States and Spain guaranteed Spain's exclusive right to navigate the Mississippi River for 30 years. It also opened Spain's European and West Indian seaports to American shipping. However, the Treaty was not ratified under the Articles of Confederation |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Eli Whittneys invention which drasticly changed farming life in the south. It sperated cotton from cotton seed |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The buying of Luisiana territory from the french. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River, most of North Dakota, nearly all of South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide, and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans. (The Oklahoma Panhandle and southwestern portions of Kansas and Louisiana were still claimed by Spain at the time of the Purchase.) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Head civil cheif of Ohio territory |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Fist waterway from the eas to the western great lakes |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Creator of the first succesful steamboat |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| American Hitorian most credited for "The Significance of the Frontier in American History,". He believed the spirit and success of the United States was directly tied to the country's westward expansion |
|
|
