Mafifest Destiny Chapter 12 Flashcards
The Panic of 1837
was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time
Manifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
The Republic of Texas
The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign country in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.
Jacksonianism
Jacksonian democracy was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that espoused greater democracy for the common man as that term was then defined. Originating with President Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation’s dominant political worldview for a generation.
Battle of San Jacinto
312) 1836 Sam Houston defeated Mexican army and took Gen. Santa Anna prisoner, who signed a treaty giving Texas independence.
Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico.
Mexican war
(318) 1846 US declared war. Whigs charged that Polk deliberately put country in conflict (and lied about attack).
The Bank War
was the name given to the campaign begun by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, after his reelection convinced him that his opposition to the bank had won national support.
Indian Removal
Indians in Georgia had valid land there, they had to leave in the winter walk to oklahoma to indian terriotry
Bank Bill
Tyler Vetos all 3 Bank Bills
When was the Texas Revolution
1836
Whig Party
Willaim Henry Harrison American System
Harrison got kicked out by who
the Whig party and he left the democratic party before.
Was Texas recongized as a independent country?
they were free but mexico believd they were apart of mexico still.
Who hates the british and wanted to annex Texas
Andrew Jackson
Oregeon Territory
54’ 40’
Fugative Slave Act of 1850
A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.
Kansas Nevraska Act
was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
when did virgina get independence
May 15th 1776 Virigina Independence
Virigna Declaration of rights
1776
Virginia Declaration of rights
Section 1- Social compact (w/ exceptions )
Section 16 freedom of conscinece
Federal Bill of Rights
First admendments
Pennsylvannia of 1776
enacted its first state constitution in direct response to the Declaration of Independence and the instructions of the Second Continental Congress to the colonies to reject British rule.
