Chapter 12 Vocab Flashcards
James Monroe
fifth president, Republican who was president during the era of good feelings who wrote, the Monroe doctrine
Simon Bolivar
Led a revolt and freed many countries from Spanish control
American System
Henry Clay’s plan for raising tariffs to pay for internal improvements such as better roads and canals
Missouri compromise
Agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine to enter the union as a Freestate
Cumberland Road
First federal road project, construction of which began in 1815 and ran from Cumberland Maryland to present day wheeling West Virginia
Erie canal
Canal it ran from Albany to Buffalo to New York completed in 1825
John Quincy Adams
Six president won the presidential election of 1824 who is a Republican
Henry Clay
Help the congress reach the Missouri compromise, representative from Kentucky
Spoils system
Politicians practice of giving government jobs to the supporters
Nullification crisis
A dispute between South Carolina and the federal government in the late 1820s over states rights to notify or cancel and an unpopular tariff
Andrew Jackson
He was the seventh president in 1828 and he gained fame as a general in the army and was president during all of the Indian removal
John C Calhoun
Vice President under Andrew Jackson he decided with the state government and resigned his support South Carolina
William Henry Harrison
General from the battle of Tippecanoe and the whigs ran him as their candidate
Martin Van Buren
He was one of Jackson strongest allies and he was a Secretary of State for Andrew Jackson and he was president during the panic of 1837
Black Hawk
He was an Indian he refused to leave his homeland, he was the leader of this sauk
