Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism - Chapter 7 Flashcards
To describe major domestic and foreign problems faced by the leaders of the new Republic such as maintaining national security and creating a stable economic system government.
Standardized parts that can be used in place of one another
Interchangeable parts
Military hero and seventh president
Andrew Jackson
Political party formed in 1834 to oppose policies of Andrew Jackson
Whig Party
Eli Whitney’s invention for cleaning cotton
Cotton gin
Supreme Court case that denied Maryland the right to tax the Bank of the United States
McColloch v. Maryland
A belief that national interests as a whole should be more important than what one region wants
Nationalism
Party started by Jackson’s followers
Democratic-Republican Party
Path the Cherokee were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Territory
Trail of Tears
Henry Clay’s name for an 1828 tariff increase
Tariff of Abominations
A federally funded road, stretching from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois
National Road
Inventor of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Sixth president of the United States
John Quincy Adams
Vice-President and congressional leader from South Carolina
John C. Calhoun
Canal that connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean
Erie Canal
A change in the making of goods from small workshops to large factories that used machines
Industrial Revolution
Ninth president
William Henry Harrison
A Senate leader from Massachusetts
Daniel Webster
Clay’s plan for economic development
American system
A protective tariff designed to help American industries
Tariff of 1816
The making of goods in large amounts
Mass production
Warning to European nations not to interfere in the Americans
Monroe Doctrine
Speaker of the House of Representatives and political leader from Kentucky
Henry Clay
A series of financial failures that led to an economic depression
Panic of 1837
National bank established by Congress first in 1791 and then in 1816
Bank of the United States
Law that forced Native Americans to move west
Indian Removal Act
Eight President
Martin van Buren
System in which incoming political parties throw out former government workers and replace them with their own friends
Spoils system
Agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories
Missouri Compromise
Treaty that secured the purchase of Florida from Spain
Adams-Onís Treaty
Tenth president
John Tyler
