American Nationalism (Chapter 6 and 7)

Question 1

Alexander Hamilton

Answer 1

-Secretary of Treasury
-Established Nat. Bank
-Pay off the National Debt (77 Mil)
-Combine all the states’ debt

an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington’s presidency

Question 2

Federalist Party

Answer 2

-John Adams & Thomas Pickney

a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States

Question 3

Embargo Act

Answer 3

-TJ stops trade to all foreign countries
-Hurts USA

a general trade embargo on all foreign nations that was enacted by the United States Congress

Question 4

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 4

-General Andrew Jackson
-2000 British troops died
-Most decisive USA victory

was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana

Question 5

Trail of Tears

Answer 5

-4000 Cherokee Died
-800 mile trek

the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the “Five Civilized Tribes” between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government

Question 6

Andrew Jackson

Answer 6

-TN
-General
-7th (champion of the common man)
-Democratic Party
-More white man votes
-Spoils System
-believed that B.U.S. was a monopoly

an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837

Question 7

George Washington

Answer 7

-1st President
-said no run in 1796
-warned against entangling alliances and factions within country

an American Founding Father, politician, military officer, and farmer who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797

Question 8

War Hawks

Answer 8

-Henry Clay (KY)
-John C. Calhoun (SC)

a person who supports war, especially a jingoistic American who favored war with Britain around 1812

Question 9

Fort McHenry

Answer 9

-Francis Scott Key
-Star Spangled Banner

successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814

Question 10

Henry Clay

Answer 10

-KY
-The American System
-National Bank
-Protective Tariff
-National Transportation System
-Tariff Act of 1816 (25% duty on imported factory goods)
-Transportation
-Erie Canal & Wilderness Road
-Transportation and Industrial Revolution

an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives

Question 11

Republicans

Answer 11

-Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr

one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States

Question 12

Tariff of 1828

Answer 12

-Doubled tariff of 1816
-Southern hated “Tariff of Abominations”
-John C. Calhoun steps down to fight
-Nullification states can void a federal law
-Jackson threatens warships to SC
-Clay’s Compromise avoids bloodshed

a law that increased import taxes in the United States by up to 50%

Question 13

Lewis and Clark

Answer 13

-45 explorers
-Record everything “with great care and accuracy”
-Sacagawea & York

the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase

Question 14

Indian Removal Act

Answer 14

-Relocate Natives west (OK)
-Trail of Tears

provided “for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi”

Question 15

William H. Harrison

Answer 15

-“Tippecanoe and Tyler too”
-dies 4 weeks later

an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States from March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history

Question 16

Robert Fulton

Answer 16

-Steamboat

an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat

Question 17

Jay’s Treaty

Answer 17

-“WEAK” treaty to keep peace with England

sought to settle outstanding issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence

Question 18

Battle of Tippecanoe

Answer 18

-William Henry Harrison
-Tecumseh plan died

fought on November 7, 1811, in Battle Ground, Indiana, between American forces led by then Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and tribal forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa (commonly known as “The Prophet”), leaders of a confederacy of various tribes who opposed European-American settlement of the American frontier

Question 19

Wilderness Road

Answer 19

-Daniel Boone (Big Turtle)
-1st Doorway to the West

one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East

Question 20

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 20

-No Europe settlement in USA
-USA would fight to defend
-Isolationism

warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs

Question 21

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 21

-Secretary of State
-VP

an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809

Question 22

John C. Calhoun

Answer 22

-SC
-steps down to fight

an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832

Question 23

Louisiana purchase

Answer 23

-James Monroe (Sect. of State)
-TJ wants to buy New Orleans to Florida ($10 million)
-Napoleon offers all of Louisiana ($15 million, less than 4 cents an acre)
-DOUBLED the size of America
-Lewis & Clark
-Zebulon Pike (Mississippi to Colorado)
-TJ made America bigger
-Colonies start to move westward
-National Identity

the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803

Question 24

Francis Scott Key

Answer 24

-Star Spangled Banner

an American lawyer, author, and poet from Frederick, Maryland, best known as the author of the text of the American national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Question 25

Whig Party

Answer 25

-created by Clay
-Hate “King Andrew”
-William H. Harrison “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”
-Martin Van Buren (D) defeated by Harrison (W)
-Harrison dies 4 weeks later
-President John Tyler

a mid-19th century political party in the United States

Question 26

XYZ Affair

Answer 26

-French & American Issues
-Angered with Jay’s Treaty
-Seize American ships

a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the presidency of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to the Quasi-War

Question 27

Marbury V Madison

Answer 27

-Midnight Judges
-John Marshall (Chief Justice)
-Judicial Review
-Judiciary Act of 1789 Unconstitutional
-Supreme Court; Final Interpreter of Constitution

a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that established the principle of judicial review, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes they find to violate the Constitution of the United States

Question 28

U.S.S. Constitution

Answer 28

-Winning at the Great Lakes
-Battle of Thames

a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy