Us History(Ch.9-13) Flashcards
First republican president
Abraham Lincoln
Chief justice of the Supreme Court 1792
John Marshall
The Erie canal
Dewitt clinton
The “little magician” whose administration was marred by depression.
Martin van Buren
This young sect became America’s largest denomination by 1840.
Methodist
This is granted to an inventor to protect their rights to an invention.
Patent
Author of elementary readers
William Mc Guffey
Won Texan independence
Sam houston
Leader of a slave rebellion.
Nut Turner
Belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its border.
Popular sovereignty
The third president of the united states
Thomas jefferson
Designed to end the nullification crisis by reducing the tariff rates.
Compromise tariff of 1833
Where the first shot of the War between the states was fired.
Fort sumter
Named used to describe Andrew Jackson’s close circle of information advisors.
Kitchen Cabinet
Landmark Supreme court decision that protected Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce.
Gibbons V Ogden
Replacement of government officeholders with supporters of new administration.
Spoils system
Founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints.
Joseph Smith
Author of the national anthem.
Francis Scott key
Amendment that separated the ballots for the president and vice presindent.
Twelfth Amendment
President who oversaw the war of 1812
Jame madison
Explorer of the Louisiana Territory with Mariwther Lewis.
William Clarke
Supreme court decision maintained that “it is emphatically the province & duty of the judicial department to say the law is.
Marbury V Madison
He supported states’ rights,unexpectedly became president after Harrison’s death,”his Accident”
John Tyler
State called the Bear Flag Republic.
California
Treaty that caused Mexican cession of Mexico and California
Treaty of Hidalgo
The forced removal of the Civilized Tribes from their homeland,and forced to march to their new land.
Trail of tears
America’s first economically successful railroad.
Baltimore and Ohio
The concession that allowed the new stets and went against the machine roam.
Missouri Compromise
Document stating the no European country could entertain in the western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Bank system set up by Andrew Jacson to replace the National Bank.
Pet Banks
Methodist minister who traveled on horseback to small frontier settlements in his region.
Circuit rider
A state leaving the union.
Succession
Federal arsenal was attacked in 1859 in the hopes of sparking a slave revolt.
Harpers Ferry
He brought American settlers into Texas.
Stephen F. Austin
President of the Confederate states of American.
Jefferson Davis
Type of high tax on imported goods,designed to protect national manufacturers against foreign competition
Protective tariff
Policy Andrew Jackson adopted toward the Indian problem.
Indian Removal Policy.
Explorer of the Louisiana Territory with William clark.
Meriwther Lewis
National funding for roads,canals,harbors,and railroads.
Internal improvements
America’s popular president during the “Era of good Feelings”
James Monroe
Landmark supreme court decision that denied the states the power to interfere with the ability of congress to enact a national bank.
McColloch v. Maryland
“Friend of the common man”;Hero at the Battle Of Horseshoe Bend President who supported the Indian Removal Policy
Andrew Jackson
Indian assistant to Lewis and Clark.
Sacajawea
This treaty permanently disarmed the region on America’s northern border.
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Tax on imported goods
Tariff
Invented the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
Founder of salt Lake City,the Mormon Capital.
Brigham young
This party was united by their opposition to Andrew Jackson Policies
Whig party
Father of American Methodism
Francis Asbury
Stated that slavery must be banned in any territory acquired from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
Speaker of the House who formulated the Missouri Compromise;Head of the Whig Party.
Henry Clay
Party long claimed to be that of the “common man”and is still in existence today.
Democratic Party
Element on this system were tariffs,internal improvements,and national bank.
American system
Eloquent former slave who wrote in support of abolition.
Frederick Douglass
Slave who was ruled not a citizen,therefore not allowed to sue.
Dred Scott
Slaughter of a small Texas outpost by the Mexican Army.
Alamo
Religious revival that affected the entire nation in the early nineteenth century.
Second Great Awakening
This trail was a trade route between Mexico and the United States.
Santa Fe Trail
Invented the Steamboat
Robert Fulton
Public Education reformer.
Horace Mann
Former slave who made trips to the South to lead slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Richard Allen
Religious group persecuted because the men took more than one wife.
Mormons
“Dark house”president who was perhaps the hardest working president in our nation’s history before 1860.
James K Polk
Mexican military leader who fought Texans and Americans,known as the scourge of the Alamo.
Santa Anna
Participant in the California gold rush.
Firty-nine
“Overspread and to possess the whole continent” God given right to have the coast to coast.
Manifest Destiny
Political party who was anti-slavery and pro-business.
Republican party
Explorer;Bear Flag Republic (Las vegas Street named after named after him).
John C. Frémont
Resolution that said slavery couldn’t be banned until a territory became a state.
Calhoun Resolutions
Abolitionist leader who wrote the Liberator newspaper.
William Lloyd Garrison
Invented the telegraph machine.
Samuel Morse
Most important trail in the settlement of the far west.
Oregon trail
Strongly supported state rights.
Jefferson Republicanism
Strongly supported Lewis and Clark
Sacajawea
Treaty that established a permanently disarmed region in Americas northern border was ?
The Rush-Bagot treaty
Main provision of Monroe Doctrine was no European country could ……. in the Western Hemisphere.
Intervene
3 Elements of the American system were?
Tariffs
International improvement
National bank
What issue lay at the heart of Missouri?
The balance of slave states Maine became a slave state.
Bank system Jackson set up to replace the national bank was which bank?
A pet bank
Jackson policies was the main issue that united which party?
Whig Party
Main reason the South fell behind the North in developing industry was?
They replied mainly on cotton exports.
Roads were so much more common in early American when boats were cheaper because?
Roads could reach land locked
“What Hath God Wrought” were words from ?
The first telegraph sent.
The ….. Falls convention passed resolutions supporting women suffrage area of reform.
Senecca
Who became famous for writing short stories and poems that explore dark side of human nature ?
Edgar Allen Poe
Religion popular w/Patriots such as Thomas Paine.
Deism
What is the most important trail of the settlement of the Far West ?
Oregon trail
John Tyler was called “…?….” Because he became president when Harrison died.
His accidency
Contributions for ……. War.
Mexican
Mexico’s resentment over Americas annexation of Which state?
Texas
Americas belief of ?
Manifest Destiny
History of hostility between which country?
Mexico and US
Texas settles decided to fight for independence was because the Mexican army …….. Texas.
Invaded
Immediate cause of Mexican war was the
Texas Mexican hoarder
Greatest spur of California’s settlement was ?
The gold rush
The Republicans became such a success to which party?
Whig Party
According the Lincoln, the heart of his debate w/Douglas was the ?
Immorality of slavery
Event that caused the lower South to secede was ?
The election of Lincoln
Event that caused upper South to secede was?
Lincoln’s call for troops
South resisted the admission of California as a state because mainly they Feared the loss of power in ?
The senate
Clipper ship was …….. Type of sailing ship ever built.
Fastest
Name of the candidate who was unknown was “darkhorse”
“James K Polk”
Who was spokesman for slavery in the Southern territories.
John C Calhoun
Douglas promoted popular sovereignty as the solution for slavery let the settlers decide for them sieves and Lincoln refused to …… it in their debate.
Deny
Lincoln refused to deny slavery was ?
Immoral
What mission became the rallying cry during Texas’s war for independence?
Alamo
