Chapter 9: Nation Building and Nationalism

Question 0

Anglo-American Convention of 1818

Answer 0

Set the boarder between the Louisiana Territory and Canada along the 49th parallel
Joint occupation of Oregon

Question 1

Rush-Bagot Agreement

Answer 1

Agreement between Britain and America
Limited naval activity in the great lakes
Britain promised not to in a America from Canada
America promised not to invade Canada

Question 2

East Florida

Answer 2

Spanish territory that Monroe sought for

Question 3

Seminole Indians

Answer 3

The Indian tribe that general Jackson pushed into East Florida
Gave Monroe the opportunity to pressure Spain for East Florida

Question 4

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 4

Madrid did not what to deal with the Americans
Gave up East Florida in exchange for 5 million dollars in financial claims against Spain
Got all the land between Texas and Oregon

Question 5

John Jacob Aster

Answer 5

A man who owned a fur trading outpost at the Colombia R. mouth
Exploited the west

Question 6

Mountain Men

Answer 6

Trappers who caught beasts and sold them to agents of fur trading companies

Question 7

Stephen S. Long

Answer 7

Surveyed parts of the Rockies and the Great Basin; aka, the Great American Desert

Question 8

Chiefs Black Hawk

Answer 8

Mississippi native who led the Sac and Fox Indian’s last stand against the movement to push them from their lands.
Federal Troops and Illinois militia almost exterminated them as they fled across the Mississippi.

Question 9

“Civilized Indians”

Answer 9

Jefferson’s idea
You can keep your land as long as you settle down and farm the land and eventually you could apply for statehood
Civilize yourselves

Question 10

5 Civilized Tribes

Answer 10

Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, Chotaw, and Chicksaw
People just wanted them gone
Bribed them, deceived them, threatened them
Nothing came of it

Question 11

Oklahoma

Answer 11

A treaty was signed that moved all the civilized tribes to Oklahoma
Movement made it so those who moved past the Appalachians did not have to fight Indians

Question 12

Squatters

Answer 12

People who moved out onto unchartered lands and did not pay for the land they settled
Violated preemption

Question 13

Preemption

Answer 13

Formal right of first purchase

“I bought this land, and you bitches are just squattin’ here like you own the place!”

Question 14

James Fennimore Copper

Answer 14

First great American author

Wrote romanticized tales of the west

Question 15

“Internal Improvements”

Answer 15

Program set of making better transportation to create economic and political progress

Question 16

National Road

Answer 16

First federal project
Went from Cumberland, Maryland, to Potomac and Wheeling, Virginia
Crushed stone surface and immense bridges

Question 17

Lancaster Turnpike

Answer 17

Connected Philadelphia to Pittsburgh
Lots of turnpikes everywhere on the north
Privately owned toll roads

Question 18

Flatboats

Answer 18

Easy transport for serious freight traveling down the Mississippi
Pittsburgh to New Orleans
Could not travel up river

Question 19

Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston

Answer 19

Successfully showed steam-power’s potential by getting the Clermount 150 miles up the Hudson

Question 20

Clermount

Answer 20

See Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston

Question 21

New Orleans

Answer 21

Steam ship that traveled from Pittsburgh to New Orleans

Question 22

Enterprise

Answer 22

Steam ship that traveled from New Orleans to Pittsburgh

Question 23

DeWitt Clinton

Answer 23

New York governor who took the credit for the first canal

Question 24

Erie Canal

Answer 24

Turned New York into a commercial capital and reduced trade costs Ran from Albany and Buffalo to the Great Lakes

Question 25

PA Main Line System

Answer 25

Made, but as successful as the Erie Canal Philadelphia to Pittsburgh Trains would have to drag ships up hill on more than one occasion

Question 26

King Cotton

Answer 26

The Deep South Demand from textile miles in England and New England (but mostly England) Cotton gin Availability of good land in the southwest Slavery Natural transportation system

Question 27

Era of Good Feeling

Answer 27

One party is left standing | Not really so "good" - people still fought for power

Question 28

The Republicans

Answer 28

With no second party opposition, some Republicans began to deviate from their old philosophies and embraced old Federalistic ones No party system

Question 29

Henry Clay

Answer 29

Led the advocation for the government getting involved in economics

Question 30

American System

Answer 30

Tariffs will stimulate industrial growth and a self sufficient economy South hated it because they did not manufacture

Question 31

Panic of 1819

Answer 31

The bank was calling for specie in exchange for banknotes | Caused an economic downturn

Question 32

James Tallmadge

Answer 32

Beginning of the Missouri problem Suggested cutting off Missouri to new slaves as a part of it becoming a state Required steps to be rid of the saves entirely

Question 33

Missouri Compromise

Answer 33

Missouri can be a slave state if Maryland can be a free state Henry Clay Beginning of regional difficulties

Question 34

Fire bell in the night

Answer 34

Jefferson said the alarms were going off in him head | Showed future North-South relations

Question 35

John Marshall and the Supreme Court

Answer 35

Gave shape to the constitution with his decisions Protection of individual liberty (land) Nationalist - economic growth and wealth begets happiness Encouraged economic development Limited state legislatures LOOSE CONSTRUCTION

Question 36

Dartmouth v. Woodward | 1819

Answer 36

College wanted to become a state university Ruled in favor of the college - state charters given to private corps are protected Anybody with a charter holds on to any privileges or favors

Question 37

McCalloch v. Maryland

Answer 37

State imposed a tax not eh Baltimore branch of the national bank Ruled tax unconstitutional Implied powers If you can tax it, you can destroy it

Question 38

Gibbons v. Ogden 1824

Answer 38

Congress can regulate interstate commerce

Question 39

Grand Alliance

Answer 39

.

Question 40

Czar Alexander I

Answer 40

.

Question 41

Richard Rush

Answer 41

.

Question 42

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 42

.

Question 43

John Quincy Adams

Answer 43

.

Question 44

Universal Weights and Measures

Answer 44

.