Chapter 10 Flashcards
Ordinance of 1784
Plan of Thomas Jefferson to organize the national domain to discrete territories on with a three stage development of government institutions
Land ordinance of 1785
Called for the systematic serving of the Northwest territory and division into mile Square plots and organization into townships
Northwest territory
Lands north of the Ohio River
Northwest ordinance of 1787
Called for the governmental development of the west based on creating self-governing republics would be systematically added to the union
Louisiana purchase
Land purchase by Thomas Jefferson from France. Consist of much of this Midwest United States
Napoleon Bonaparte
French empire and European conquer who sold Francis North American holdings to the states as Louisiana purchase
Andrew Jackson
The seventh president of the United States, Jackson champion of the US as a democracy. Pushing for more political involvement by the common man. He told the US banks charter and made the reforms to keep the government federal small
Public togetherness
Aspect of party politics in which groups of political party members were together together in order to save more solidarity and support.
Party newspaper
Internal used by a political party for disseminating party information to and encourage more active participation among the grassroots voters
Popular complaining
Promoting candidates as being from, and therefore representing, the common messages rather than as a lead gentleman politicians
Political convention
Large meeting of party delegates for the purpose of nominating candidates, often held with much pomp and ballyhoo
Get out the vote activity
Aspect of party politics and which motors are systematically rounded up and help to get to the polling Place
Political machine
Group of party loyalists organized to deliver the vote on election day. Historically they often used questionable or illegal means such as buying votes or intimidation at the polls.
Thomas Jefferson
Third president of the United States, Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and influential founding father of the United States. He found it’s the Democratic Republican Party in front of the idea of small federal government