Chapter 12 & 13 Flashcards
Tejanos
Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home
Boom town
Fast growing community
Laissez-faire
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without letting government interfere.
Spoils system
Practice of rewarding government jobs to political supporters.
Mudslinging
Attempts to ruin opponents reputation with insults.
Give a key fact about Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Spanish General who fought the Texans during their independence.
Give a key fact about Zachary Taylor
Lash Whig president who died in office.
Give a key fact about John Tyler.
President who vetoed a charter to reopen the national bank twice and was expelled from the Whig party.
Key fact about William Henry Harrison
President who was in office for 32 days
Martin Van Buren
Resident who allowed the Panic of 1836 to occur and refused to step in.
Give three good facts about Sam Houston
Leader of Texas Independence, 1st president to Lone Star State Republic, sent delegation to US to annex Texas.
Give three good facts about Compromise of 1859
California entered Union as a free state, Texas got 10 million dollars after loosing a border dispute with New Mexico, and stronger fugitive slave act.
Give three good facts about the Whigs
Political party that developed from the National Republicans, opponents of Jackson, destroyed by the issue of slavery.
Give three good facts about the Tariff Debate
Southerns hated the tariff since it was hurting heir economy, Calhoun and South Carolina passed the Nullification Act, Jackson passed the Force Act in response.
Give 3 good facts about Henry Clay
Speaker of House of Representatives, leading Whig, ran for president many times.
Give 3 good facts about the War on Bank.
Jackson saw it as an institute of the wealthy, Clay and Webster forced the issue of election in 1832, Jackson won and destroyed the bank by removing all the federal funds.
Give 3 good facts about Worcester v. Georgia
Georgia passed series of laws to restrict Native Americans, squired people living on Cherokee land to have a special license, a group of missionaries refused and they were jailed.
Give 3 good facts about Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Georgia passed a series of laws to restrict Native Americans, Cherokee Nation deemed a foreign entity not a foreign nation, Chief Justice John Marshall said they could not get involved, since not a foreign nation.
Give 3 good facts about Lone Star Republic
1st president was Sam Houston, started during the flight of Alamo, immediately wanted to be annexed by the US.
Give 3 good facts about the Panic of 1836
Started in part by War on the Bank, inflation increased and people stopped by returning bank notes, people stopped spending money which lead to a depression.
