Final 150 Part 2 Flashcards
Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson vs John Adams but it was a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr with 73 electoral votes. House of Reps. decided winner: Thomas Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson bought double the country for $15 million from France
Lewis and Clark Expedition
They set on an expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase with Sacagawea who helped talk to chiefs. They followed the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and inspired others to explore
Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake
Impressment-the act of forcing Americans to serve in the British navy(mostly native US citizens)
Chesapeake was a ship intercepted by a British vessel demanding to search for dissenters. The captain refused and the British commander attacked. Now the embargo act is passed to restrict trade but doesn’t help
James Madison 4th president
War Hawks and the War of 1812
WH-people who pushed for war with Great Britain such as Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
War of 1812-impressment and Chesapeake are causes. Andrew Jackson leads attack later
War of 1812-DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans
Capitol, White House, Library of Congress burned
Francis Scott Key writes Star Spangled Banner
Treaty of Ghent
Took place after peace treaty
Star Spangled Banner
Written by Francis Scott Key after burning of Fort McHenry in 1812
Monroe Doctrine
Important part of American foreign policy
The Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization
US regards any inference in WH affairs as a threat to its security
Also put in place by many Latin American nations gaining independence from Spain.
Irish potato famine’s relationship to immigration
A disease killed potatoes so (mostly) Irish people came to America for food and work in the 1840s
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention
Woman’s suffrage supporter
Met Susan b Anthony at the Seneca falls convention
Lucretia Mott met her at an antislavery event
First woman’s temperance association “daughters of temperance”
Industrial revolution
Late 1700s- changed how people lived and worked
Technology that changed making cloth, water frame and spinning Jenny =thread-power loom=cloth
Cotton gin, interchangeable parts, patent
Factory workers girls “Lowell girls”
Capitalism
People or businesses own property and decide how to use it
People and companies own the means of production
Free enterprise system
People are free to buy sell and produce whatever…capitalism
Supply and Demand
When the price of goods depends on the demand for it and how much you have.
Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s
Cotton
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important
It sorted the seeds out of cotton and increased supply and demand for the north for textiles because it increased and sped production.
Urban vs Rural
92.8% rural 7.8% urban
This changes during industrial revolution
Urban-city
Rural-farm small towns
Wilderness Road
+Daniel Boone
Widens Warriors path
Cleared rocks from the Cumberland gap
Cut down trees in Kentucky and marked the trail
Main southern highway from the eastern states to west
100,000 people traveled it between 1775 and 1790
Daniel Boone
Helped carve the wilderness road
Explorer and pioneer
Cumberland Gap
Near Kentucky
Used to travel to TN
The Corrupt Bargain
Adams made a deal with Clay saying that if clay used his power in the house to defeat Jackson, then Adams would make clay Secretary of State
Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank
Replacing current government employees with supporters of the winner
Jacksons supporters abandoned the caucus system ( top party leaders chose the candidates for office)
Indian Removal Act
Forced the Seminole and other eastern Native Americans to move west of the MS River
Passed in 1830
Trail of Tears
In Worcester vs Georgia, Cherokee fought for their rights to stay in Georgia, and Jackson interfered (1832). In 1835, Indians began to move west. Almost 15,000 Cherokee
Sequoyah
1776-1843 silversmith
Made Cherokee alphabet because he thought settlers had power in their written language
12 years-86 symbols and officially adopted in 1825
Sequoyah=sequoia
William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
Died of pneumonia in first 2 months because of a two hour inauguration in cold rainy weather. Tippecanoe and Tyler too
Manifest Destiny
James Polks belief that the US should be fulfilled from pacific to Atlantic because of God.
Texas Rebellion
Manifest destiny realized shortly after. Polk was president. Winfield Scott was sent to declare war. Paid $15 million and 3.25 million reclaimed for American citizens
California Bear republic
