Chapter 9-10 Flashcards
A political tactic that exposed flaws of their opponents
Mudslinging
What were Jefferson’s and Adams main “assumptions” in mudslinging?
Jefferson. Branded an Atheist
Adams. Labeled a monarchist
Jefferson won the election but gained the same amount of votes as who?
Aaron Burr
Jeffersons changes
Reduce national government eliminating federal power, + decreasing the size of the army and navy.
What French leader had hopes of creating a global empire?
Napoleon Bonaparte
What land did the French Leader secretly acquire from Spain?
New Orleans
Why were the Americans worried about Napoleon’s land?
American merchants shipped goods along the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans, but Napoleons presence may interfere.
Who did Jefferson send to buy New Orleans?
Robert Livingston and later James Monroe
How much did Charles Talleyrand sell New Orleans for?
15 million dollars
What was the name of the purchase pf Louisiana / New Orleans?
The Louisiana Purchase
Who did Jefferson sponsor an expedition into Louisiana under?
Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke
What were Lewis and Clark’s group called?
The Corps of Discovery
The countries along the southern rim of the Mediterranean Sea were who to what infamous people?
Barbary pirates
Washington and Adams had agreed to pay what to protect our ships in the Mediterranean?
Tribute
When the ruler of Tripoli asked for more money in 1801 what did Jefferson do?
Refuse
What other countries continued to prey on American ships even after the Barbary pirates subsided?
France and England
What did Jefferson do about his ships being attacked by France and England?
Passed an Embargo
Embargo
Closed all the trade between America and Europe causing no ships to be needed. But the Embargo only made things worse
The ________ of American Sailors from the British was the British infiltrating American ships when out at sea.
Impressment
A new, young group of Republicans that urged Madison to get rid of the British presence once and for all
War Hawks
Dolley Madison
Saved the only real portrait of George Washington from her house while it gets attacked
How tall was James Madison
5’4”
Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?
Eli Whitney
What did the Cotton Gin do?
de-seeded cotton as fast as 50 people could by hand.
Who was labelled the father of the Industrial Revolution, brought technology back from England through his head, and built the first successful textile mill in Rhode Island?
Samuel Slater
recruited young women to work at his textile mill on Massachusetts.
Francis Lowell
Lowell’s factory
Brought together under one roof all the machinery and labor necessary to turn cotton into cloth.
The change for America through technology
America’s Industrial Revolution
James Monroe’s presidential period nickname
“Era of Good Feelings”
A few Jackson exposes the weakness of the Spanish Empire in the new world against what tribe?
Seminole Indians
How much did it cost for John Quincy Adams to purchase Florida in 1819?
$5 million dollars
Name of the Florida purchase
Adams-Onis treaty
Missouri Compromise
A compromise splitting free and slave sates
Maine
Entered as a free state
Missouri
Entered as a slave state
36’30 line
The line that divided free and slave states
Who was the Secretary of State during the Era of good feelings
John Q. Adams
Who was the secretary of war during the Era of Good feelings
John C. Calhoun
Treaty of Ghent
Stay out of our country and well stay out of yours!
Monroe Doctrine main writer
John Q. Adams
Monroe Doctrine
Basically for the large countries stay out of our hemisphere and well stay out of yours. Also promised to help independent countries. If anybody knows we don’t have the power to beat the eastern hemisphere the British navy will help us.
John Adams nickname (bad)
His rotundency
Jefferson and Burr were _______, while Adams and Pinckney were _______.
- Democratic-republicans
2. Federalists
What did Jefferson do to the representative in Delaware to win the 9th vote?
Wrote him a letter about how Burr was a pain in the butt
