Unit 4 Jeffersonian Age, 1800-1824
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| Erie Canal | created a water route between NYC and Buffalo NY - opened up Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes |
| The American System | plan by Henry Clay - national bank, internal revenue (roads and canals) and protective tariffs |
| Tecumseh and the Prophet | People feared that the British in Canada would recruit Indians to halt the march of American settlement. A Shawnee chief, Tecumseh and his half-brother the Prophet, sought to unite several tribes in Ohio and the Indiana territory against American settlers. They tried to unify their people and revive traditional virtues. |
| Essex Junto | group of extreme federalists who wanted to succeed - aaron burr led |
| Burr Conspiracy | Burr tried to make louisiana its own country and succeed new england |
| Tripoli Wars | Wars against the Barbary Pirates - Jefferson - Africa |
| Napoleonic Wars | wars fought by napoleon (france) against other european nations - napolean wanted a french empire |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | Tecumseh and the Prophet attack, but General Harrison crushes them in this battle |
| Pinckney's Treaty | Spanish - American gave control of the mouth of Mississippi |
| 12th amendment | president and vice president must be from the same party and run together |
| berlin decree | forbade the import of British goods into European countries allied with or dependent upon France, and installed the Continental System in Europe |
| Non-intercourse act of 1809 | America will trade with everyone but Britain and France |
| Milan Decree | france would seize any ship that obeyed britians order of council |
| British Orders in Council | closed european ports under french control to foreign shipping unless they first stopped at britain ports |
| The Star Spangled Banner | written by Francis Scott Keys on a napkin |
| The American Party | tbd |
| Revolution of 1800 | peaceful transfer of political power from federalists to demo-republicans in the election of 1800 (Jefferson) |
| Louisiana Purchase | territory of louisiana was bought from france for 15 million by America |
| Lewis and Clark | 3 year exploration that scoped and surveyed the new land bought from the louisiana purchase |
| Judiciary Act | created federal court system with state local and district (circuit) courts |
| John Marshall | Supreme Court Judge with extremely federalist attitudes |
| Marbury v. Madison | established judicial review |
| McCulloch v Maryland | Maryland wanted to sue the bank of the us - states cant sue a federally owned/operated institution (supremacy clause) |
| Gibbons v Ogden | federal government has control over interstate commerce |
| Samuel Chase | supreme court justice of whom the Democratic-Republican Congress tried to remove in retaliation of the John Marshall's decision regarding Marbury; was not removed due to a lack of votes in the Senate. |
| Aaron Burr | killed hamilton - plotted to make louisiana its own country |
| Embargo Act | isolated America from trade to keep it out of British and French affairs |
| Macon's Bill #2 | stated that America will reopen trade with the nation (Br or Fr) who promises to stay peaceful and stop trade with the other |
| War Hawks | Wanted war with britain and the indians and wanted more land from canada |
| Henry Clay | American System |
| war of 1812 | america vs britain and indians over american liberties and british abuse of power |
| impressment | British practice of taking American sailors and forcing them into military service |
| Hartford Convention | meeting over the new england states in which they proposed alterations to the constitution and threatened succession over the war of 1812 |
| Treaty of Ghent | "ended" the war of 1812 - returned things to status quo no lands lost no lands gained |
| Battle of New Orleans | happened one month after the treaty of ghent in which americans had a great victory over the british which boosted morale |
| Era of Good Feelings | time of virtually no political tension |
| Tariff of 1816 | protective tariff against british companies who were trying to take advantage of the american system |
| Rush- Bagot Agreement | limited naval armament on the great lakes - secured borders of canada |
| Adams - Onis Treaty | treaty of 1819 - gave questionable parts of florida to u.s. northern border of florida |
| Panic of 1819 | economic panic due to "gambling" on the price of land in the west |
| Tallmadge Amendment | no more slaves into missouri and the slve's children would be freed |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | Missouri would be entered as a slave state and maine as a free state and no more slave states would be above the 36'30 |
| Monroe Doctrine | warning to european powers to stop colonizing and interfering in the americas |
| John C. Calhoun | warhawk- wanted south 2 seceed |
| midnight judges | appointed by Adams (federalist) before he left office |
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