| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Jay Treaty | 1795 - britian agrees to evacuate NW forts, ease trade restrictions, no slave compensation, commission to pay pre-war debts to Brit Creditors (benefited frontier residents and NE merchants) |
| Pickney Treaty | helps quiet unrest (1795) fixes western boundary of US at the Mississippi River and secures river navigation rights |
| Election of 1796 | washington declines 3rd term (precedent set at 2) Adams wins Pres, Jefferson wins VP, split party ticket |
| XYZ Affair | french commissioners black mail Adams - public opinion turns anti-french |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | 1) targets new immigrants by lengthening naturalization period 2) immigrants can be detained during war 3) an attack on the president = traitorous (infringes on 1st amendment) |
| VA and KY resolutions | response to AS acts, calls them unconstitutional - sets precedent of weighing in on fed action |
| election of 1800 | Democratic Republicans take control, signals end of the federalists, jefferson is president |
| Marbury v Madison | 1803 ruled on constitutionality of federal laws, declared judiciary act of 1789 unconstitutional |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition | stake a claim to the new Louisiana land, catalog flora, fauna and people |
| Treaty of Greenville | secures for the US most of the NW territory |
| Prophet and Tecumseh | brothers who promote indian resistance, return to original indian ways - reject western elements |
| Pan Indianism | unite all indians |
| The Embargo Act of 1807 | US embargoes itself, stops trade and forbids exports to foreign countries, upsets merchants and the northeast, unpopular and unsuccessful |
| War of 1812 | three theaters: atlantic coast, great lakes, and gulf coast, largely a naval war - impressment - also a fight against the indians who allied with the british. The star spangled banner was written during the war. |
| Battle of New Orleans | after the war was over Jackson leads militia against British and wins |
| Domestic Market Economy | household economy - people tended to consume what they produced, gendered labor |
| shoe making | someone who made shoes in exchange for something - changing venue, reconceiving the production |
| out work | paid by the piece, 1st kind of wage labor done in the home - cottage industry |
| textile mills | run mechanized spinning wheels to produce yarn (Lowell Mills) |
| cotton gin | invented by Eli Whitney in 1793; completely changes the way cotton is processed, helps to stimulate anglo american migration into the south |
| the McCormick Reaper | 1831 revolutionizes farming/harvesting, contributes to the growth of larger farms, commercial agriculture |
| steam boat | water transportation revolutionized, shortened travel time, UP and DOWN Miss. River. connects regional economies |
| the National Road | designed to facilitate western migration 1811 |
| the Erie Canal | transforms NY state, connects atlantic to great lakes, new trade route |
| Missouri Compromise | a new slave state for each new free state, draws a clear line at 36 parallel to settle where slave states exist and where free ones are created |
| "Era of Good Feelings" | during monroe's presidency, there was a balance of industrialization and agriculture |
| American System | coined by Henry Clay, series of bills that bolstered the economy (recharter the bank, tariffs to protect manufacturing, gov funds to promote projects) |
| consequences of market revolution | home v work, class structures, urbanization, western migration, changes in notions of time and space, rise of renewed evangelism, reforms |
| suffrage reform | democratization of political participation, divides men and women/white and black, no more property restrictions, all white men can vote |
| "corrupt bargain" | Adams wins presidency, makes clay sec of state - Jackson feels cheated, calls it corrupt - creates a party split into Jacksonian Democrats and National Republicans |
| Jacksonian Democrats | Jackson supporters, 1st national, well organized party that used slogans, canvassing and campaigning |
| Tariff of 1828 | imported cloth and iron gets a high duty, southerners hate the tariff, discuss nullification |
| nullification crisis | 1832 SC passes an act nullifying the tariff as it violates their state rights |
| Panic of 1836 | national bank calls in its loans from all the pet banks Jackson gave the money to when he dissolved the bank - debt and credit crisis |
| the second party system | democrats versus the whigs |
| Cherokee Removal | Jackson sends GA Cherokees on a "Trail of Tears" to Oklahoma territory, thousands die during the march |
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