Chapter 8 Flashcards
- Second Bank of the United States
was the second authorized National Bank in the United States during its 20-year charter from 1816 to 1836
- Francis Cabot Lowell
instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States
- National Road
was the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers
- The Factor System
method of manufacturing at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
- American Fur Company
founded in 1808 by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States
- Mountain Men
a fur trapper and explorer who lived in the mountains
- Jedediah Smith
a hunter, trapper, and fur trader in the United States of America.
- Stephen Long Expedition
Led five expeditions up and around the MIssissippi River and the surrounding Area
- “Great American Desert”
used to describe the land west of the Mississippi River now known as the great plains
- Virginia Dynasty
Went from Jefferson to Monroe used to describe the four presidents who were all from VA
- Monroe’s Goodwill Tour
Monroe toured around the United States on the way to his Inauguration
- “Era of Good Feelings”
A period of good growth and economic ease the first year of Monroe’s presidency
- John Quincy Adams
son of John Adams, sixth president of the United States took over after Monroe
- Seminole War
were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole Indians and the United States
- Adams-Onis Treaty
Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 an event that defined the U.S.-Mexico border
- Panic of 1819
first major financial crisis followed by a general collapse of the American economy
- Tallmadge Amendement
a proposed amendment to a bill requesting the Territory of Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a free state.
- Missouri Compromise of 1820
Missouri would be added to the United States as a Slave state and Maine would be added as a free state
- Fletcher v. Peck
the Supreme Court ruled that a contract cannot be broken even if it was made with England
- Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Supreme Court upheld the sanctity of the original charter of the college, which pre-dated the creation of the State
- Cohens v. Virginia
Court’s assertion of its power to review state supreme court decisions
- McCulloch v. Maryland
operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks
- Gibbons v. Ogden
the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce
- Johnson V. McIntosh
private citizens could not purchase lands from Native Americans
