Chapter 9: Nation Building and Nationalism Flashcards
Anglo-American Convention of 1818
Set the boarder between the Louisiana Territory and Canada along the 49th parallel
Joint occupation of Oregon
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Agreement between Britain and America
Limited naval activity in the great lakes
Britain promised not to in a America from Canada
America promised not to invade Canada
East Florida
Spanish territory that Monroe sought for
Seminole Indians
The Indian tribe that general Jackson pushed into East Florida
Gave Monroe the opportunity to pressure Spain for East Florida
Adams-Onis Treaty
Madrid did not what to deal with the Americans
Gave up East Florida in exchange for 5 million dollars in financial claims against Spain
Got all the land between Texas and Oregon
John Jacob Aster
A man who owned a fur trading outpost at the Colombia R. mouth
Exploited the west
Mountain Men
Trappers who caught beasts and sold them to agents of fur trading companies
Stephen S. Long
Surveyed parts of the Rockies and the Great Basin; aka, the Great American Desert
Chiefs Black Hawk
Mississippi native who led the Sac and Fox Indian’s last stand against the movement to push them from their lands.
Federal Troops and Illinois militia almost exterminated them as they fled across the Mississippi.
“Civilized Indians”
Jefferson’s idea
You can keep your land as long as you settle down and farm the land and eventually you could apply for statehood
Civilize yourselves
5 Civilized Tribes
Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, Chotaw, and Chicksaw
People just wanted them gone
Bribed them, deceived them, threatened them
Nothing came of it
Oklahoma
A treaty was signed that moved all the civilized tribes to Oklahoma
Movement made it so those who moved past the Appalachians did not have to fight Indians
Squatters
People who moved out onto unchartered lands and did not pay for the land they settled
Violated preemption
Preemption
Formal right of first purchase
“I bought this land, and you bitches are just squattin’ here like you own the place!”
James Fennimore Copper
First great American author
Wrote romanticized tales of the west
“Internal Improvements”
Program set of making better transportation to create economic and political progress
National Road
First federal project
Went from Cumberland, Maryland, to Potomac and Wheeling, Virginia
Crushed stone surface and immense bridges
Lancaster Turnpike
Connected Philadelphia to Pittsburgh
Lots of turnpikes everywhere on the north
Privately owned toll roads
Flatboats
Easy transport for serious freight traveling down the Mississippi
Pittsburgh to New Orleans
Could not travel up river
Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston
Successfully showed steam-power’s potential by getting the Clermount 150 miles up the Hudson
Clermount
See Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston
New Orleans
Steam ship that traveled from Pittsburgh to New Orleans
Enterprise
Steam ship that traveled from New Orleans to Pittsburgh
DeWitt Clinton
New York governor who took the credit for the first canal
Erie Canal
Turned New York into a commercial capital and reduced trade costs
Ran from Albany and Buffalo to the Great Lakes
PA Main Line System
Made, but as successful as the Erie Canal
Philadelphia to Pittsburgh
Trains would have to drag ships up hill on more than one occasion
King Cotton
The Deep South
Demand from textile miles in England and New England (but mostly England)
Cotton gin
Availability of good land in the southwest
Slavery
Natural transportation system
Era of Good Feeling
One party is left standing
Not really so “good” - people still fought for power
The Republicans
With no second party opposition, some Republicans began to deviate from their old philosophies and embraced old Federalistic ones
No party system
Henry Clay
Led the advocation for the government getting involved in economics
American System
Tariffs will stimulate industrial growth and a self sufficient economy
South hated it because they did not manufacture
Panic of 1819
The bank was calling for specie in exchange for banknotes
Caused an economic downturn
James Tallmadge
Beginning of the Missouri problem
Suggested cutting off Missouri to new slaves as a part of it becoming a state
Required steps to be rid of the saves entirely
Missouri Compromise
Missouri can be a slave state if Maryland can be a free state
Henry Clay
Beginning of regional difficulties
Fire bell in the night
Jefferson said the alarms were going off in him head
Showed future North-South relations
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
Gave shape to the constitution with his decisions
Protection of individual liberty (land)
Nationalist - economic growth and wealth begets happiness
Encouraged economic development
Limited state legislatures
LOOSE CONSTRUCTION
Dartmouth v. Woodward
1819
College wanted to become a state university
Ruled in favor of the college - state charters given to private corps are protected
Anybody with a charter holds on to any privileges or favors
McCalloch v. Maryland
State imposed a tax not eh Baltimore branch of the national bank
Ruled tax unconstitutional
Implied powers
If you can tax it, you can destroy it
Gibbons v. Ogden 1824
Congress can regulate interstate commerce
Grand Alliance
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Czar Alexander I
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Richard Rush
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Monroe Doctrine
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John Quincy Adams
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Universal Weights and Measures
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