jackson&westwardexpansion Flashcards
Tariff
A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
Views of the Democratic Party
Believed rights for all white men despite wealth
Jacksonian Democracy
Believed in rights for all white men and believed in more public involvment in the government
Kitchen Cabinet
Unoffical advisors Jackson consulted with
Spoils System
Would give jobs and reward the supporters of the party
Tariff Acts of 1828 and 1832
Forced people to buy materials from the North, raised price on goods from Southern factories
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina said the Tariff Acts were unconsitutional and didn’t follow them
Jackson’s view on the national bank
Believed in state’s rights and distrusted the national bank
Manifest Destiny
The belief that God said the U.S. had rights to the entire North American continent
Three ways the U.S. expanded
-Fighting Spain for Florida
-Buying Louisiana from France
-Getting land from Mexico war
-Getting Texas after they left M.
-Winning Orgen from the British after the trail
Louisiana Purchase
Bought the Louisiana territory from France nearly doubling the U.S. size
Texas & Mexico’s feelings towards slavery
Texas was for slavery Mexico was against and outlawed it
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The treaty the gave the U.S. lost of land west from Mexico including Texas
Gadsden Purchase
The U.S. bought a strip of land from Mexico in the Southwest to make the transcontinental railroad
Reasons and circumstance around adding Florida and Oregon
-Florida-to gain controll of the Mississippi
-Oregon-becuase of the fertile and usful land and route to pacific
