Chapter 9 Vocab Ap History Part 1

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adams-onis treaty

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signed feb. 22, 1819. spain relinquinished florida the u.s. in return the u.s. assumed 5 million of financial claims of american citizens against spain

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john jacob astor

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new york merchant who founded the fur trading post of astoria at the mouth of the columbia river in the oregon country.

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preemption right

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special acts that granted squatters in specific areas the rights to purchase at the minimum price the land that they had already improved

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cotton gin

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created by eli whitney to clean cotton faster to make more money. it cleaned about fifty pounds of cotton per day.

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second bank of the u.s.

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was to serve as a check on the state banks to reinforce specie payments, but led to depression in 1819 and 1837

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specie

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payments of money in gold and silver coins

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panic of 1819

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demand of money and credit could not be made and the u.s. went into depression

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missouri compromise

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missouri would enter as a slave state and maine as a free state. the arkansas terriroty (under the south border of missouri) was able to be slave land and any land above the south border of missouri (unorganized territory) was not to be slave land

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dartmouth college vr. woodwoard

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ruling of whether the legislature of new hampshire had the right to convert dartmouth from a private college into a state university. ruling was that private corporations were full protected.

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mcculloch vr. maryland

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state of maryland levied a tax on the baltimore branch of the bank of the u.s. the tax was ruled unconstitutional. main issueswere if congress had the right to establish a national bank and whether the state had the power to regulate agencey or institution created by congress.

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gibbons vr. odgen

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questioned the power of congress to regulate interstate commerce. steamboat monopoly granted by the state of new york was challanged by competing ferry service operating between new york and new jersey. declaration was the new york grant was unconstitutional because it amounted to state interference with congress's exclusive right to regulate interstate commerce

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john quincy adams

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secretary of state

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james monroe

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president

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monroe doctrine

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got the territory of florida to the united states

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american system

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called for a 25% tarrif, this was necessary due to the flood of finished goods that were kidding young american industry

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national road

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the first great federal transportation project between cumberland, maryland on the potamac river to wheeling, virginia on the ohio river

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erie canal

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land stretch of 364 miles between albany and buffalo

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era of good feelings

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when one party dominated presidencey

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balance of power

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once a slave state enters the union a free state enters the union

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implied powers

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interpretation of the constitution that neither madison or jefferson anticipated

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putting out system

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most products were made in house holds and distributed by merchant capitalists

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henry clay

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pushed for what he called measures of an american system many parts of whiched were picked up by congress in 1816

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european grand alliance

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the monarchs of europe joined this to protect authoritarian governments from democratic challanges

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lowell factories

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large and profitable mills of textile manufactring with cotton in lowell massachusetts

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john calhoun

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recommanded the program of internal improvements and described it as great nationalizing enterprise

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tallmadge amendment

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banned further introduction of slaves into missouri and requiring steps toward the gradual eliminaion of slavery within the state

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blackhawk

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an indian cheif who led a faction of confederted sac and fox indians who refused to abandon their lands east of the mississippi

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robert fulton

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a new yorke of great wealth and political prominence that demonstrated the full potential of the steamboat by propelling the clermont 150 miles up the hudson river