Chapter 7-Growth & Division Flashcards
List the five candidates for president in 1824.
Adams Jackson Crawford Clay Calhoun
What was Henry Clay’s economic program?
American System
How did William Crawford view the Constitution?
Strict interpretation and States Rights
What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?
Old Hickory
How did Andrew Jackson become famous?
As a general in the army fighting Indians and the British at New Orleans in 1814.
What portion of the country had the most Jackson supporters in 1824?
South and West
What portion of the country had the most Adam supporters in 1824?
New England
What did critics of Henry Clay say about him following the results of the 1824 election?
Clay had made a corrupt bargain with Adams during the election.
What two tactics were used between Adams and Jackson in the 1828 election?
Revenge and mud-slinging
What was Andrew Jackson’s party named in 1828?
Democratic-Republicans
What had Andrew Jackson’s party name changed to by the 1830s?
Democrtic
Who was a very powerful Supreme Court judge in the early 1800s?
John Marshall
What court case was about Judicial Review?
Marbury v. Madison
What court case was concerned about National Supremacy?
McCulluch v. Maryland
“The power to tax is the power to destroy” is essential to understanding the importance of the ____ case.
McCulluch v. Maryland
What court case upheld the national government’s power to regulate commerce?
Gibbons v. Ogden
What court case determined that the Supreme Court would be the final court of appeals.
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
The dissolving of Spain’s colonial empire sparked President Monroe to ____
issue the Monroe Doctrine
What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
To support new democratic countries emerging from colonialism in Latin America.
What impact did the Monroe Doctrine have on American foreign policy?
US declared that no further European colonialism would be tolerated in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the name given to US politics during James Monroe’s presidency?
Era of Good Feelings
In the early 1800s, what political system developed in Europe to protect the established monarchies?
Quadruple Alliance
Who was the leader of Florida’s Seminole people?
Kanache
Who subdued the Indians in the American Southeast?
Andrew Jackson
What treaty secured Florida for the United States?
Adams-Onis Treaty
What four countries claimed the right of settlement in the Oregon Territory in the early 1800s.
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Mexico
In the early 1800s, what region of the United States started to industrialize?
New England
What did the Federal government do to encourage industrialization in the United States?
pass high protective tariffs
In the early 1800s, ____ provided most of American revenue.
tariffs
What social/economic movement began in the mid-1800s that used strikes to protect workers?
Labor Union movement
What economic activity remained predominant in US society in the mid-1800s
Farming and agriculture
what were the rich and power farmers called in the US?
Planters
What were the average farmer who owned his own land called?
Yeomen Farmers
Who invented a telegraph and code for the new invention?
Samuel Morse
Who invented interchangeable gun parts
Eli Whitney
Who invented the cotton gin machine?
Eli Whitney
What transportation system began in the early 1800s from Baltimore to growing settlements in the west?
The National Road
List two new transportation inventions of the early 1800s?
Steamboats
Railroads
What old technology was used for transportation in many states in the early 1800s.
Canals
What was the longest and most famous canal of the 1820s?
Erie Canal
Through which state did the Erie Canal travel?
New York, from Albany on the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
What was the first railroad locomotive in America called?
Cooper’s Tom Thumb
By the 1800s, what crop became most important on Southern Plantations?
cotton
What allowed for the planting of cotton to become profitable.
cotton gin
List three cities in the southern states in the 1820s.
Charleston
Baltimore
New Orleans
This state would enter the Union as a slave state in 1820.
Missouri
This state would enter the Union as a free state in 1820.
Maine
Slavery would be allowed southern portion of the the Louisiana Purchase by the _____.
Compromise of 1820 or Missouri Compriomise
How many free blacks lived in the south by 1860?
1/4 million
How many black slaves lived in the south by 1860?
3 1/2 million
What two major slave rebellions occured in the first 50 years of the United States
?
Vesey and Nat Turner’s rebellion
In American slave culture, _____ was the only element that allowed a sense of freedom.
Religion
what were the two type of slave economies
Gang Slave Labor
Task Slave Labor
What was the leader of a Slave Gang called?
Driver
What was the lasting impact of Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser’s slave rebellions?
tougher slave codes to include requiring passes when ever slaves were off the plantations
