American Nationalism (Chapter 6 and 7) Flashcards
Alexander Hamilton
-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
Federalist Party
-John Adams & Thomas Pickney
a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States
Embargo Act
-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
Battle of New Orleans
-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
Trail of Tears
-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
Andrew Jackson
-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
George Washington
-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
War Hawks
-Henry Clay (KY)
-John C. Calhoun (SC)
a person who supports war, especially a jingoistic American who favored war with Britain around 1812
Fort McHenry
-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
Henry Clay
-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
Republicans
-Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr
one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States
Tariff of 1828
-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%
Lewis and Clark
-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
Indian Removal Act
-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”
William H. Harrison
-“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
Robert Fulton
-Steamboat
an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat
Jay’s Treaty
-“WEAK” treaty to keep peace with England
sought to settle outstanding issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence
Battle of Tippecanoe
-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
Wilderness Road
-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
Monroe Doctrine
-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
Thomas Jefferson
-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
John C. Calhoun
-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
Louisiana purchase
-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
Francis Scott Key
-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”
