Us History Exam 3

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Goals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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1. Study the plant and animal ife in the newly purchased territoy
2. Map out the rivers and waterways
3. Establish a friendly relationship with the indians
4. Establish a claim for the U.S. on the Pacific Coast

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Reason's for the debate over the purchase of the Louisianna Territory

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1. Jefferson did not have the authority to just purchase land like that
2. The U.S. didn't even have the money to pay for the land, so they had to borrow

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Sacajawea

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Indian female who helped lead the Lewis and Clark expedition

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Treaty of Cession

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1803 - Treaty that purchased the Louisianna Territory by Jefferson

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Robert Livingston & James Monroe

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diplomats that Jefferson sent to France in order to purchase a small amount of Louisianna Territory

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Absolutist ruler of France who sold Louisinna territory to Jefferson

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Embargo of 1807

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by Jefferson who hoped to peacefully coerce Britain and France into trade- devastated the economy - no exportation of American goods ANYWHERE

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Reasons for the War of 1812

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- Impressment of American sailors by the British navy
- Encouragement of Indian attacks on settlers
U.S.S. Chesapeake is attacked by H.M.S Leopard
- Occupation of forts in Ohio River Valley
- Blockade of the Atlantic coastline

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Era of Good Feelings

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during James Monroe's presidency
- good because there was only one political party: democratic republicans
- there's no national war consuming the U.S.
-Begining of the industrial revolution
- westward expansion

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Missouri Compromise

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Maine comes in as a free state- Missouri as a slave state
- from that point forward slavery would be probited in any states above the 36,30 parrallel

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Panic of 1819

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as the west opened up and more people moved, they had less supply and more demand- meaning that prices went up and credit was easy
Reasons:
-exports go down
-west expansion up
-easy credit
Bank of U.S. stabilizes the economy

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Adams - Onis Treaty

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Spain exchanges Florida for the forgiveness of $5mil debt
-U.S. gives up Texas

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Industrial Revolution

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primarily in transportation and communication
first industry to develop is the textile industry

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Lovell, Massachusetts

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where textile industry develops

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Election of 1824 and 1828

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Both are dirty campaigns- first is John Q. Adams, in 28' its Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson

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first western President- carried the west and the south

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Jacksonian Democracy

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-spoils system
- intense distrust of eastern establishment
- indian removal

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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

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said that they were a domestic independent nation- said that georgia has no authority over them
Jackson said marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it

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Henry Clay

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The Great Compromiser
1832 National Republican nominee

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Martin Van Buren

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winner of the 1836 election- rode on the coat tails of the democratic Jackson
- nicknamed Old Kinderhook

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Labor Movement

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New York's workingmen's party
10 hour days, Martin Van Buren eventually also lowered federal work hours to 10

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American System

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19c economic plan by Henry-Clay and Hamilton
- National Bank
- High import tarrifs- good for american business b/c it supports buying american
- federal dollars for internal improvments
Adams put it into place

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Spoils System

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to the victor goes the spoils
coined by Jackson

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Kitchen Cabinet

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name of Jackson's close knit cabinet members

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William Lloyd Garrison

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leader of white abolitionist group
slavery and masonry undermined republican values
immediate immancipation with NO compensation
"The Liberator" abolitionist newspaper

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Frederick Douglas

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black who gained his independence
"North Star" abolitionist paper

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David Walker

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1829- Appeal to the coloured citizens of the world- pamphlet
to fight for freedom rather than wait for whites to do it
black abolitionist

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American Anti-slavery society

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1833 founded by Tapan and William Lloyd Garrison
White abolitionists

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Transcendentalism

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liberation from understanding and the cultivation of reasoning
"Transcend" the limits of intellect and allow the emotions, the SOUL to create an original relationship with the universe

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry david Thoreau

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transcendentalist writer
-wrote walden

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Second Great Awakening

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"spiritual reform from within" religious revivalism
Social reforms and redefining the ideal of equality
- temperance, asylum, penal,, abolitionism, womens rights

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Samuel Cornish

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one of founders of American Anti-slavery society
was a presbyterian minister, abolitionist and journalist

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Freedom's Journal

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first African-American owned and published newspaper in New York

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Educational Reform

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Horace Mann is credited with the development of public education
Three R's
Promoted McGuffey Eclectic readers- standardized textbooks