National Affairs Pt. 3
This widely held belief in 19th-century America emphasized the inevitability and righteousness of American territorial expansion across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This act closed American ports for trade to hopefully prevent war with Britain and France, as well as impressment, but it completely failed, destroying the US economy and still ending up going to war
What is the Embargo Act?
Some of this group left England, after facing persecution, intending to purify the Anglican church, which led more migrants to follow
Who are the Puritans?
This treaty signed with Spain granted the United States the right to navigate the entire length of the Mississippi River, which was crucial for American farmers to transport their goods to international markets through the port of New Orleans. Also granted the right of deposit.
What is Pinkney's Treaty?
This plan was largely implemented and laid the foundation for the country's financial system, establishing the principles of federal assumption of debt, a national bank, and fiscal policies that influenced the nation's economic development for years to come.
What was Hamilton's Financial Plan?
This contentious issue in the United States was due to debates over slavery and concerns about provoking Mexico. President John Tyler, a proponent of expansionism, initiated negotiations for annexation.
What is the Annexation of Texas?
This pivotal moment in American history repealed the long-standing compromise on the extension of slavery, but also sparked intense conflict and violence in the Kansas Territory, intensifying the debate over the expansion of slavery and hastening the approach of the Civil War.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This religious movement united all 13 colonies in an attempt to convert people to Christianity
What is the Great Awakening?
This purchase remains one of the most consequential land deals in history, significantly shaping the growth and development of the United States and contributing to its expansion across the continent.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This set of ideals included a priority of state governments over national, strict interpretation of the Constitution and removal of the National Bank.
What are Jeffersonian Republican Ideals?
This was a proposed amendment to a congressional appropriations bill in 1846 aimed to ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
This act abolished slavery north of the Ohio River & established the process of how a territory becomes a state
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
These people immigrated to the US in search of better economic opportunities and escaping political unrest.
Who are the German immigrants?
This proposal was put forward by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. The plan aimed to create a unified government for the American colonies under British rule.
What is the Albany Plan?
This election was considered the first "Modern Election," with Harrison winning over Van Buren using modern campaign techniques, as well as a higher voter turnout and the establishment of the Whig party
What is the Election of 1840?
This colonial province was located on the East Coast of the US and was there purely to exploit the US fur trade.
What is Dutch New Netherlands?
___ left a legacy of increased political participation and a more democratic political system, while also raising debates about issues like the balance of power between federal and state governments.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?