O's Flashcards
Old Lights
Those in the religious community who rejected the Great Awakening
Olive Branch Petition
a resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress pleading with King George III to intercede with Parliament to restore peace
Ordinance of Nullification
Following President Jackson’s support of the higher rates of the new Tariff of 1832, the composition by Vice President John Calhoun, after his resignation of office (duly approved by a special convention) in which customs officials were ordered to stop collecting duties at the port of Charleston
Oregon country
the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean in the northwestern part of the present-day United States, which the United States and Britain had agreed to jointly occupy after the signing of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819
Oregon Fever
The movement in the 1840s of thousands of settlers across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains to settle in the Oregon country
Oregon Trail
a path that was a 2,000 mile, six-month journey from Independence, Missouri, across the plains along the Platte River, through the Rockies at South Pass, and down the Snake River; during the first half of the 1840s, about 6,000 Americans made this journey, with most of them settling in the Willamette Valley, south of the Columbia River
Oregon Treaty
the 1846 compromise between the United States and Britain, in which the then-current U.S.-Canada boundary east of the Rockies (49 degrees N longitude) was extended westward to the Pacific, thus securing Puget Sound and shared use of the Strait of Juan de Fuca for the United States
Ostend Manifesto
the document sent by President Pierce’s diplomats to him urging military seizure of Cuba should Spain remain intransigent in is refusal to sell Cuba to the United States
Mercy Otis Warren
a revolutionary pamphleteer who published a multivolume “History of the Revolution” in 1805
