Final 150 Part 2 Flashcards
Election of 1800
- John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas’s Jefferson won
- decided by the House Of Reps
Louisiana Purchase
- sold for $250 million (modern$)
- doubled size of US
Lewis and Clark Expedition
-sent to explore the Louisiana Territory & find its resources
Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake
Caused some of the war of 1812
War Hawks from the War of 1812
- people who pushed for war with Great Britain
- ex.) Henry Clay& John C. Calhoun
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 the treaty was signed
The Star Spangled Banner
- Written at Fort Mchenry
- By Francis Scott Key
Monroe Doctrine
Said that the US would not interfere with wars in Europe nor any existing European colonies in America
Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration
The Potato famine caused Ireland to have an extreme shortage of food so they moved to America (for food)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention
Woman’s suffrage supporter
Met Susan B. Anthony at 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
Capitalism
People or business own property and decide how to use it
People and companies own the means of production
Free Enterprise System
People are free to sell and produce whatever ……capitalism
Supply and Demand
When demand goes up supply goes up, when it goes down so does supply
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 made harvesting cotton easier
- could harvest 50 times more cotton each day
- rise in southern economy
Urban vs Rural
Rural:small towns and villages ( country )
Urban:bigger ,more populated ( cities )
Wilderness Road
A path that made crossing through the Appalachian mountains easier
Daniel Boone
A Tennessee explorer and pioneer that created the wilderness road
Cumberland Gap
A gap between the Appalachian mountains that led to Boone and others to create the wilderness road
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
- allowed federal govn’t to pay Native Americans to move west.
Trail of Tears
Forced the Seminole and other eastern Native Americans to move west of the ms river
Sequoyah
Created the Native American alphabet
William Henry Harrison’s Presidency
- tippycanoe and Tyler too
- died of pneumonia within two months because of long inoguration speech
Manifest Destiny
The belief of spreading over the entire continent east to west
Texas Rebellion
- remember the Alamo
- declared their independence from Mexico