History 1301 Unit 3 - Chapter 09

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John Quincy Adams

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The author of the Monroe Doctrine as secretary of state, he was the 6th president and served 17 years as a congressman after his presidency.

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James Monroe

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Virginian who served two terms as 5th president during the Era of Good Feelings, he declared Wester Hemisphere off-limits to new colonization.

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Sequoyah

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Invented a written Cherokee language (1821-22) through the use of syllabary, in which 85 symbols represent syllables.

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Popular early American novelist whose Leatherstocking tales romanticized solitary life on the rugged frontier, the most noted being "The Last of the Mohicans" (1826).

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Robert Fulton

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He dramatically changed transportation by developing the first commercially successful steamboat, the Clermont, which began sailing on the Hudson River in 1807.

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DeWitt Clinton

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New York governor whose pet project, the Erie Canal (1817-25), connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and led to a canal boom.

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Henry Clay

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One of the "Great Triumvirate" of three pre-Civil War legislators, the Kentucky senator championed the American system of high tariffs and internal improvements.

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Adams-Onis Treaty

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Signed by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Spanish minister Luis de Onis in 1819, this treaty allowed for US annexation of Florida.

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Preemption

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The right of the first purchase of public land. Settlers enjoyed this right even if they squatted on the land in advance of government surveyors.

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Era of Good Feelings

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A description of two terms of President James Monroe (1817-23) during which partisan conflict abated and federal initiatives suggested increased nationalism.

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Missouri Compromise

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A sectional compromise in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase territory above the latitude of 36° 30'.

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Dartmouth College v. Woodward

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In this 1819 case, the Supreme court ruled that the Constitution protected charters given to corporations by states.

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McCulloch v. Maryland

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This 1819 ruling asserted the supremacy of federal power over state power and the legal doctrine that the Constitution could be broadly interpreted.

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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In this 1824 case, the Supreme Court expanded the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce.

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Monroe Doctrine

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A key foreign policy declaration made by President James Monroe in 1823, it declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to new European colonizations; in return, the United States promised not to meddle in European affairs.

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Obtain Florida and Spain

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The first goal of postwar expansionists in the United States after 1815 was to ...?

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Responding to the revolt of Spain's Latin American colonies.

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The main diplomatic challenge facing James Monroe in 1820 was to ...?

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Expansion gave entrepreneurs like Astor the opportunity to create prosperous companies in the West.

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How did expansion affect men like John Jacob Astor?

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More people migrated when assured the preemption would allow them to secure a title to the land they had improved.

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How did preemption affect migration?

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Some Native American sacrificed their culture to try to assimilate into white society and still they weren't accepted or granted rights.

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Why was the "civilization" of Native Americans tragic?

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Construction of a reliable transportation system for the United States.

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When President James Monroe talked about the need for "internal improvements," he was referring to ...?

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A great national transportation system created by the nation's river network.

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Why did America experience rapid economic development in the early 19th century?

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America had not yet had an industrial revolution, whereas Europe had.

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How did American industrialization in the early 1800s differ from that of Europe?

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Most people were satisfied by the geographical and economic growth of the country, so they weren't concerned with national politics.

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Why did interest in national politics wane in the early 19th century?

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It ensured that slavery would remain in the South indefinitely.

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How did the Missouri Compromise impact slavery?

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Most "New World" nations founded democratic governments, whereas the "old World" still clung to aristocratic rule.

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How did politics in the "Old World" from politics in the "New World" in the early 19th century?

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Seminole

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The ___ nation was an amalgam of peoples of both Native Americans and African origins.

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Nonpartisan cooperation could not be sustained through disagreements of how government should be involved in social and economic changes.

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Why did the Era of Good Feelings end?

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National Road

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The first great federal transportation project was the ...?

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Erie Canal

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The most spectacular engineering achievement of the young United States was the ...?

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Lowell, Massachusetts

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The great showplace for early American industrialization was ...?

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Increasing production in the factory and decreasing in the home.

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Industrialization after 1815 altered the manufacturing system in the United States by ...?

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James Monroe

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The president most closely identified with the Era of Good Feelings was ...?

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Emphasized by the primacy of property and property rights.

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As chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall ...?

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The National Bank

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McCulloch v. Maryland involved questions regarding ...?

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It resolved major North-South conflicts about slavery.

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How did the Missouri Compromise impact the future of North-South relations in the U.S.?

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Improved land and water transportation allowed the US to develop more industry and create a cash crop agricultural system.

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How did transportation affect industry and agriculture in the early 19th century?

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They didn't see the US as a significant enough military power to feel threatened about their support of Latin American independence.

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Why did the Monroe Doctrine make little impression on European powers?