Chapter 9 Flashcards
What is the Adams-Onis treaty?
Signed by President John Adams and Spanish minister Luis de Onis in 1819, this treaty allowed for US annexation of Florida
What is Preemption?
The right of first purchase of public land. Settler enjoyed this right even if they squatted of government surveyors.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
A descriptive term for the era of President James Monroe, who served two terms 1817-1823. During Monroe’s administration, partisan conflict abated and bold federal initiatives suggested increased nationalism.
What is the American system?
A national economic strategy championed by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, the American system stressed high tariffs and internal improvements.
What is the Missouri comprise?
A sectional comprise that in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase territory above the latitude 36 degrees and 30’
What is the court case Dartmouth college vs. Woodward?
In this 1819 case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected charters given to corporations by states.
What is the court case McCulloch v. Maryland?
Ruling on this banking case in 1819, the Supreme Court propped up the idea of “implied powers” meaning the Constitution could be broadly interpreted. This pivotal ruling also asserted the supremacy of federal power over state power.
What is the court case Gibbons v. Ogden?
In this 1824 case, the Supreme Court affirmed and expanded the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A key foreign policy made by President Jame Monroe in 1823, it declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to new European colonization. In return, the united States promised not to meddle in European affairs. In addition, there were no more adding of land to the colonies already here in the Western hemisphere.
What was Western expansion fueled by?
To expand American territory and economically exploit and develop the far West.
What is the First Seminole War?
A war that gave Monroe and adams a chance to push Spain from the southeast and get the Adams- Onis treaty.
What were the effects of the First Seminole War?
In the north entrepreneurs a fur trade in north, in south removal on Indians.
What were some chances of the transportation after the War of 1812?
New and improved roads, Steam powered boats along rivers and the creation of canals like the Erie Canal linked sea board cities directly with the Great Lakes.
What were the effects of transportation in agriculture?
It provided farmers access to regional and national markets. It also proved farmers with stable crops.
What were the effects of transportation in banking?
Merchants and farmers and bankers to connect farm output to distant markets.
