1820's - Sheet1 Flashcards
The Missouri Compromise
1820 federal statute from Henry Clay. Entered slave state Missouri with free state Maine, and banned slavery north of the parallel 36°30′ north.
Santa Fe Trail
Pioneered in 1821, an important transportation route between Missouri and New Mexico until the railroad in 1880, it accelerated economic development and growth in the southwest. The Comanches were originally important trading partners, but by the 1840s, the traffic had disrupted the buffalo’s grazing patterns, hastening their extinction, and the decline of the Comanches.
Liberia
Nation founded in 1821 during the Back-to-Africa movement. The American Colonization Society sponsored the return of freed black Americans to their ancestral homeland. The nation’s capital is Monrovia, a reference to Pres. James Monroe.
Monroe Doctrine
An American policy introduced in 1823 which decried any European interference in the burgeoning region of Latin America.
A Visit from St. Nicholas
AKA “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” it was an 1823 American poem which created many of the modern perceptions of Santa Claus.
The Birds of America
A book published between 1827 and 1838 containing illustrations of numerous birds in the United States, it was popular internationally.
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
A largely fictitious autobiography of Christopher Columbus written by American author Washington Irving in 1828. It popularized the unshakeable mistruth that Columbus proved the Earth was round.
Georgia Gold Rush
A significant gold rush which caused a migration to Georgia in 1829. Most of the gold was gone by the early 1840s and prospectors moved West to California.
