Era 4 Review Flashcards
Explain Jefferson’s reason for purchasing the Louisiana Territory. Why was he worried about the purchase?
- Americans feared invasion from other European nations
- the constitution said nothing of expanding territory
What was the purpose of the Corps of Discovery?
- the expedition of lewis and clark to explore the new territory acquired from the Louisiana Purchase
Why did Congress enacted the embargo act of 1807?
- Britain set up a blockade of France to prevent the United States from trading with France
- Impressment’s (the kidnapping of American soldiers)
- hurt America more than it helped
Explain the various reasons for supporting another war with Britain in 1812.
- wanted to stop Britain for helping/arming natives
- wanted protection at seas
- wanted open markets
What was the importance of the Hartford convention?
- A meeting mostly of New England Federal list who oppose the war
- Establish 2/3 vote of Congress in order to declare war
- Attempted secession
Explain the lasting legacy is of the war of 1812.
- No clear winner because no territory changed
- American patriotism increased
- Native Americans became weaker
- a growth in manufacturing
Why was the battle of New Orleans an unnecessary battle?
- The war had already been declared over but slow mail from Europe delayed the news to General Jackson
What role did “interchangeable parts” play in the industrial revolution?
- Sped up production
- made repair is easier
- allowed for the use of unskilled workers
Explain the Lowell mill factory system
Young girls were sent to work in factories and stay there to earn wages for their families and they worked in horrible conditions
Explain Nat Turner’s rebellion
- A slave who led 70 men in a rebellion in Virginia in 1831
- the group killed 55 men, women and, children
The lasting impact of a Nat Turner’s rebellion?
- Slavery striction’s became much more strict
- slave owners were fearful
- tensions over slavery increased
What caused the era of good feeling? What was it? Was it real?
- It was a brief end to political bitterness
- caused by the only party in government was democratic republican
- wasn’t real because political rivalry was still present
What was henry Clay’s American system?
- Establish protective tariffs by taxing imports
- encourage national banks that would create a single US currency, a second bank of the US, cover loans, large financing projects
- transportation would be improved by building roads waterways, thus increasing trade
Mcculloch v. Maryland
- Gave Congress implied powers not written in the Constitution
- protected the bank of United States
Gibbons v Ogden
Gave Congress the power to regulate in grant interstate commerce
What is sectionalism and how did it lead to regional disputes with in the US?
- Loyalty or nationalism for a region caused tensions because
- southerners depended on slavery
- Northerners depended on factories
- west on farming
What is the Missouri compromise and what effect did it have on resolving the issue of slavery?
- Banned slavery north of the 36’30 parallel
- the affect was the North had much more territory in the south
- it didn’t resolve the issue of slavery
Explain the Monroe doctrine
Prohibited interference from Europe in the western hemisphere meaning Europe couldn’t colonize
Dorthea Dix
Push to improve conditions in mental health
William Lloyd Garrison
Founded the liberator a weekly anti-slavery newspaper and pushed for African-American suffrage
Frederick Douglass
- Part of the abolitionist movement
- helped slaves escape
- educated
- publicly spoke out against slavery
Horace Mann
Founded the first public school system
Elizabeth candy Stanton
Started the Seneca Falls convention and was an abolitionist
David Walker
The publisher of the liberator
