Chapter 8: Republican Ascendancy Flashcards
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
Two port towns on the Ohio River that came to be because of the sudden rush of people into the NW Territory
Regional Identifications
Not an identification with state, but with region; Southerner, Northerner, or Westerner.
Also a product of defensiveness
New Orleans
Because the settlers in the NW Territory were depended on water ways to trade, they had to use the New Orleans port that was still under Spanish control
Pinckney’s Treaty
Mike Finke
The folk hero
Keelboatman of the Mississippi River
Daniel Boone
Famed trapper and Indian fighter
The Prophet
A Shawnee leader who, with his brother, tried to rebuild old native cultures
Convinced the Indians in the Indiana Territory to avoid whites, alcohol, and to keep their land for a short period of time
Tecumseh
Brother of The Prophet
Cultural revival crushed by whites who saw him as a threat during the War of 1812
Thought, incorrectly, that British agents in Canada put him up to it
Creek Nation
Another group of natives that resisted the whites and were beat down by Andrew Jackson’s militia from Tennessee.
Agricultural Fair
The only major innovation on this generation
Show off your livestock for breeding purposes
Carrying Trade
The name for the trading with Europe that earned many a merchant bookoo bucks
Ended when Jefferson enacted an embargo on France and Britain; required friendly relations
Samuel Slater
Several textile mills
Robert Fulton
Invested and sailed the first steam powered ship in the Hudson River
Opened new markets for domestic manufactures
Albert Gallatin
Jefferson’s choice for Secretary of Treasury
Understood the complexities of the federal budget
Jeffersonian Reforms
Get rid of debt Get rid of all direct taxes (reduce federal activities) Reduce army 50% Retired most navy warships Budget cuts Closed embassies in Europe
Army Corps of Engineers
Created to educate soldiers
Lead citizen soldiers
West Point
Military in VA
James Monroe/Livingston
Louisiana Purchase
Negotiator
Louisiana Purchase
When Monroe and Livingston went to France, they only asked for Florida and New Orleans for $10 million.
The French said yes, but only if you take the Louisiana Territory
Cost $15 million (3 cents an acre)
Louisiana Government Bill
Because Jefferson feared those French and Spanish people’s living the the territory wouldn’t be loyal to America, he passed a bill that stated that those governing these people’s would be appointed officials.
Imposed taxes on citizens of Louisiana without their consent.
Meriwether Lewis
Hired by Jefferson (his personal secretary)
Captain in the army
Learned what he could from Jefferson and was then sent to Doctor Benjamin Rush for info on botany, taxidermy, flora, Fiona, etc, etc.
Thunderclappers
William Clark
2nd in command
Louis’ superior in the army
Better woods man
In charge of assembling the men of the corps of discovery
Sacagawea
Wife of Frenchman Toussaint Charboneau
Mother of Pomp
Guide, translator, and peace symbol of the corps
Barbary States
States in North Africa (Tangier, Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis)
Know for piracy
Nations paid tribute to leave them alone
Jefferson had had enough for their BS; sent ships over to wreck their shit
Didn’t end so hot
Philadelphia
The name of a US frigate that was captured by Tripoli pirates
Had to fork up $60,000
Barbary War
The war against the pirates in North Africa including the blockade
Burr’s Plot
Separate the West from the rest of the country
Judiciary Act of 1801
Made several circuit courts and 16 new judgeships that were filled with Federalists
John Marhshall
Adams’ appoint Chief Justice
Hardcore Federalist
William Marbury
Wanted a commission from Madison
Didn’t get one
Sued and Marshall took his case to stir up unfortunacies
Marbury v. Madison
Marshall’s decision
Marbury, you can fuck off
Madison, you should give him that commission
Ruled a congressional act unconstitutional
James Pickering
The insane drunkard judge that was impeached without committing any crimes
Samuel Chase
The justice of the Supreme Court that Jefferson wanted gone
Said some things in a Baltimore newspaper that were basically treasonous
Or so Jefferson said
Totally lost that one
Tertium Quids
The nothings
Extreme republicans that rebelled when Jefferson listened to moderates instead of them
Believed Jefferson betrayed the republican purity of the founders
Yazoo Controversy
Corrupted Georgian assembly sells 35 million acres of land to private companies at bargain prices
Assembly was bribed
Nullified the deal
Some land exchanged hands
Jefferson appointed peeps to clean out that brick shit house and they recommended setting aside 5 million acres for the buyers
Tertium Quids were not happy; condoned fraud
Fletcher v. Peck
Quids lost
Upheld rights of the buyers
Hamilton/Burr Duel
Hamilton is dead
Burr can never go back to New York or New Jersey and his career has been torn asunder
James Wilkinson
Hired by Burr to led his private war effort to separate the east and west
Evil asshole
Burr’s Trail
Held in Richmond
Marshall, who wanted to give the republicans a hard time, demanded two eye witnesses to prove Burr’s treasonous actions.
Accidentally protected American civil rights; no conviction based off of circumstantial evidence for you!
1807 Slave Trade Bill
Banned the importation of slaves
South didn’t obey immediately
Great Britain banned it in the same year, accosted American smuggling vessels and stated they were enforcing American law
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Head of the British Royal Navy in the battle of Trafalgar
“Broken Voyages”
British navy didn’t want France to directly trade with its colonies
American merchants did this to slip past their blockade
Sail to the Caribbean -> stop in America -> go to France
Essex Decision
Made broken voyages illegal
Napoleon’s victories strained the British economy
Record number of American vessel seizures
Orders in Council
No neutral commerce
Seizure of any ships that disobeys
“Paper Blockades”
Berlin and Milan Decrees
Napoleon’s paper blockades
Closed all ports from Spain to Germany from British trade
Neutral vessels with British good were liable for seizure
Leopard/Chesapeake Incident
British war ship, the Leopard, wanted to inspect an American war ship, the Chesapeake, for deserters.
The captain of the Chesapeake refused and the British opened fire
3 dead 18 wounded
Peeps be pissed off!
Embargo Act
Jefferson thought Britain and France need American trade, so he made everyone stop trading all together.
Nobody wanted to
Britain and France were not effected
Jefferson soon repealed it, before Madison’s inauguration
James Madison
President after the election of 1808
Wasn’t a very good leader
Overly modest
Election of 1808
President = Madison
Quids tried to get Monroe to challenge his presidency
Federalists were gaining leverage in the House of Reps
Non-Intercourse Act
Trade with everyone but Britain and France
Trade with those two after they accept our neutrality.
David M. Erskine
Told Madison that Britain was whiling to change their commercial policy
Signed an agreement and sent out ships to trade
See George Canning
George Canning
British head of foreign affairs
Refused Erskine’s agreement
Captured the ships already set out to sea to trade
Macon’s Bill #2
Reestablished trade with both France and Britain
If one reopens neutral trade, America will stop trading with the other.
General William Henry Harrison
Fought Tecumseh’s Indian tribe in the Battle of Tippecanoe
Forced him to look to the British from military assistance
Later elected president because people liked him so much
Tippecanoe
Battle were General Harrison beat Tecumseh down
War Hawks
Republicans from And south and west that wanted to take action. No more of Jefferson’s peace bullshit.
Got Madison to declare war on Great Britain
Threaten to capture Canada, etc
Dewitt Clinton
Madison’s runner up in the Election of 1812
Anti War faction of the Republicans
Endorsed by Federalists
Election of 1812
Madison reelected for president
The war of 1812
The war waged on Britain and France
America would no longer stand for British impressment and commerce restrictions
Detroit
While attempting to conquer western forts, Gen. William Hull surrendered an entire army to a smaller British force
Constitution
Gen. Isaac Hull’s Constitution defeated the HMS Guerriere
Oliver Hazard Perry
Those who had the Great Lakes had the West
He sunk an entire British fleet Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie
York (Toronto)
We burnt down York because it was Canada’s capital
They burnt down our capital
Fort McHenry
Survived British naval bombardment
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