Section 1 - American Foreign Policy
Treaty with Great Britain gave the United States fishing rights off parts of Newfoundland and Labrador coasts. This treaty also set the border between the United States and Canada at 49 degrees North latitude as far west as the Rocky Mountains.
Convention of 1818
As a back-up plan to America-Spanish talks to solve border disputes, Andrew Jackson was sent to the US-Spanish border at Florida. This led to conflicts with the Seminole tribe which became known as what?
First Seminole War
Henry Clay proposed this plan, which would improve American infrastructure (roads and canals), create a new national bank to steady and produce a single currency and impose tariffs to protect American business.
American system
Water transportation was made easier by the construction of thisl, which ran from Albany to Buffalo, New York.
Erie Canal
During the early and mid-1800s there were several waves of religious revivalism that swept through the United States. At revival meetings people would sing songs called what, which were folk hymns?
spirituals
The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, yet there were issues to be solved. Great Britain and the United States both wanted to keep their navies and fishing rights on the Great Lakes. The two sides compromised with this treaty/agreement which limited the naval power on the Great Lakes for both the United States and Great Britain.
Rush-Bagot Agreement
The issue of fur trade in this area was another issue resolved by The Convention of 1818. Both Britain and America would occupy the Pacific Northwest.
Oregon Country
1. Feelings of pride and loyalty to a nation.
2. Disagreements between regions of the United States occurred.
1. Nationalism
2. Sectionalism
This Kentucky politician was known as the "Great Compromiser" and was a Senator, Representative, Secretary of State, proposed the American System and the Missouri Compromise.
Henry Clay
American creativity also spread into architecture—the design of buildings. Before the American Revolution most architects followed the style used in Great Britain. After the American Revolution, leaders such as Thomas Jefferson called for Americans to model architecture after who?
James Monroe's Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, met with Spanish diplomat Luis de Onis to settle border disputes between the two nations where?
Spanish Florida
As a result of the Adams-Onis Treaty, what did America receive? What did America give up?
1. East Florida
2. Claims to Texas, $5 million to US citizens claims
The first national road which ran from Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia).
Cumberland Road
This Supreme Court decision asserted federal power (the supremacy clause) by protecting the Second Bank of the United States from being taxed by states.
McCulloch v. Maryland
Americans also embraced educational progress. Political leaders expressed the belief that democracy would only succeed in a country of educated and enlightened people. This led to state funded what?
public schools (like you're in right now!)
After Jackson invaded Spanish Florida, overtook forts and displaced the Spanish governor, Spain agreed to negotiate with America. This led to what treaty?
Adams-Onis Treaty
In the early 1820s, Spanish territories in the Americas were undergoing revolutions. This person, known as "The Liberator", was a main revolutionary force and received support from the US government.
What became the border in the Missouri Compromise when Missouri entered as a slave state? According to the Compromise, no more states in the remaining Louisiana Territory above this line could institute slavery.
39, 30 parallel
This Supreme Court decision said that the states could not interfere with the power of Congress to regulate interstate trade.
Gibbons v. Ogden
1. This American writer was famous for using American History in his stories. Known for Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
2. This American writer used historical events in the western frontier for his stories. Known for The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans.
1. Washington Irving
2. James Fenimore Cooper
This statement from President Monroe stated that:
(a) the United States would not interfere in the affairs of European nations
(b) the United States would recognize and not interfere with the colonies already existing in North and South America
(c) The Western Hemisphere was off-limits to future colonization by any foreign power
(d) The United States government would consider any European power’s attempt to colonize or interfere with nations in the Western Hemisphere to be a hostile act.
The Monroe Doctrine
These two fears are what motivated The Monroe Doctrine.
1. The safety of the new Latin American countries (particularly Mexico)
2. Russia's interest in the Oregon Country's fur trade (remember, Britain and America had recently agreed to share this territory and it's profits)
What did Jackson and his supporters deem the Election of 1824 when he won the popular vote and still lost to John Quincy Adams in the House of Representatives?
"a corrupt bargain"
What state was created to balance out free and slave states when Missouri tried to enter the Union?
Maine
1. A landscape painter. He was the founder of Hudson River School.
2. This painter painted Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, this painting showed the rugged, lonely lives of traders of the west.
3. This painter was known for southern/Gulf Coast landscape paintings. He published The Birds of America in 1827.
1. Thomas Cole
2. George Caleb Bingham
3. John Audubon