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1824-1858
Jacksonian Democracy to Manifest Destiny
Question | Answer |
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Adams-Onis Treaty | annexation of Florida to United States |
preemption | the right of first purchase of public land |
Era of Good Feelings | James Monroe's time in office |
Missouri Compromise of 1820 | 1820; admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as free state; banned slavery in Louisiana Purchase above a certain latitude |
Monroe Doctrine | declared Western Hemisphere to be off limits to European powers; signed by Monroe |
John Quincy Adams | 6th president; secretary of state to James Monroe; accused of corrupt bargain with Henry Clay |
Henry Clay | Speaker of the House; most influential Whig; ran for president and was defeated three times; helped write the Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
Andrew Jackson | 7th president; champion of the common man; hero from the War of 1812 |
John C. Calhoun | strong supporter of states rights; vice-president under Jackson |
Daniel Webster | helped write the Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
Martin Van Buren | real power of the Jackson Administration; 8th president; blamed for the Panic of 1837 |
Panic of 1837 | economic crisis that occured in 1837 |
Bank Wars | Jackson's attempt to get rid of the 2nd Bank of Americaand Biddle's attempt to keep the Bank. |
Nicholas Biddle | president of the 2nd Bank of America; fought Jackson for Bank's right to stay in existence |
Trail of Tears | Cherokees forced to march from Georgia to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838 |
nullification | the right of a state to render a federal law powerless in that particular state if it is deemed unconstitutional; encouraged by Calhoun |
Tariff of Abominations | an 1828 protective tariff that angered southern free traders |
Underground Railroad | network of safe houses for runaway slaves to hide in. |
Yeomen farmers | poor whites who owned no slaves |
American Colonization Society | abolitionist group founded in 1817 that advocated the removal of freed slaves and free blacks to Liberia |