part 2.) 75 Flashcards
(70 cards)
Election of 1800
Adams and Jefferson:
no majority, had to go to the house of reps
Louisiana Purchase
france sold to us in 1803 for $15 million ; it doubles the size of the US
Lewis and Clark expedition
sent on expidition to explore the territory and find resorces
Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake
British troops impressed US citizens
Chesaeake was intercepted by British vessel demanding to search for dissenters
Cause of the wa of 1812
Warhawks from the war of 1812
Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
War of 1812-DC burn, fort McHenry, battle of New Orleans
- ) White house, capitol, and Library of Congress
- ) entrence of Baltimore harbor, bombed
- ) battle tat took place after the Treaty of Ghent was signed in 1812
The Star-Spangled Banner
wrote by Francis Scott Key after Fort Mchenry was bombed
monroe Doctrine
Western Hemisphere was no longer open to colonize
Irish potato famine’s relationship to immigration
Ireland had a potato loss and migrated over to america to plant potatoes
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton’s convention
Seneca Falls Convention:
womens rights
NY
publicly fought for womens suffrage
Industrial revolution
change from an agrarion society to one based of industry
Capitalism
econimic system of the United states
Free enterprise system
people are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want and can work where they wish
Supply and demand
supply=how much you have of something
demand=how mush people want it
best=have high demand, low supply
worst=have high supply, low demand
Number one crop in the south in the 1800s
cotton
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin-what is it and why was it important
made it easy to seperate seeds and cotton
made work faster/ easier
urban vs rural
urban: city
rural: country
Wilderness Road
route to Kentucky to Atlantic Coast
Daniel Boone
blazed the wilderness road
Cumberland gap
in mountains that made passing through the Appalachians easier
Corrupt bargain
John Q. Adams and Henry Clay
clay agreed to help adams win the election in the HoR
Andrew Jackson-spoil system, fight with the bank
1.) could replace th gov”t officals because won
2.) he tried to kill the bank by withdrawing all federal funds from the national bank and placing it into smaller state banks
he belived it was out to kill him
Indian removal act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
Trail of tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States, to areas to the west that had been designated as Indian Territory.
