Key terms unit 2

key terms 1

100

Gabriel's rebellion

~ Planed slave rebellion 

~ Unsuccessful 

~ Came about from the Haitian revolution

200

David Walker

~ son of an enslaved man and free woman

~ wrote the appeal to the colored citizens of the world

~ exposed the hypocrisies of American claims of freedom and Christianity while they were enslaving fellow americans

300

Jeffersonian Republicanism

~ Jefferson's peresidency

~ Committed to American Republicanism

~ voice of the plain folk

~ Reduced the size of the army

~ halted navy expansion

~ lowered government funding and budget 

~ eliminated internal taxes and reduced the power of the banks

400

Republican Motherhood

~ The idea that it's the mother's job to raise and educate their child on the ideals of the nation and what it means to be American

~ Gave rise to the gender roles and stay at home moms of America

~ gave them a feeling of a prestigious role of the women

~ defined what it meant to be a women in the new republic

~ post American revolution 

500

Thomas Jefferson

~ Democratic-Republican

~ Poster child for Democratic-Republicans

Ideals:

~ Small government (but later hypocritically makes the biggest government move

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key terms 2

100

Louisiana Purchase

~ From the French 

~ Bought for really cheep

~ Greatest real estate deal in US history

~ Got land west of the Appalachian mountains

200

Embargo Act of 1807

~ passed by US

~ closed US ports 

~ Restricted trade with Britain

300

Battle of Fallen Timbers

~ Fought during the War of 1812

~ against the native allies of the British

400

War Hawks

~ Young men who didn't know the pain of the Revolutionary War

~ Hypped for war and encouraged the War of 1812

500

Impressment

~ The British strategy of taking hold of American ships and their crew to gain more sailors in the British navy 

key terms 3

100

U.S.S. Constitution

~ Freaking awesome ship 

~ fought the British frigate 

~ nicknamed old ironsides for the iron rigings on its side

200

Hamilton's financial plan

~ Federal govenment will

     ~ be responsible for paying off national debt

     ~ take over state debt

     ~ impose customs

     ~ tax 

     ~ establish a national bank

~ Benifited the elite

~ Jefferson opposed it and through a fit

300

Battle of New Orleans

~ Happened after war

~ Major battle in the south

~ humiliated the British

400

Hartford convention

~ drafted constitutional amendments strengthening state controls over commerce and militias

500

virginia plan

~ favored larger states

~ population based representation 

~ James Madison

~ bicameral congress

key terms 4

100

Tecumseh

~ war brother 

~ unified the pan indian movement 

~ More put together and held a more prestigious role in the indian movement

200

Treaty of Ghent

~ War of 1812

~ increasingly esstablised USA nationalisum

300

Treaty of Greenville

~ Americans V.S. Native Americans 

~ goods for great lakes 

~ Anthony Wayne 

~ Added size and fertial land

400

Kentucky V.S. Virginia resolutions

~ declared that states could denounce federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional 

~ gave power to the state

~ adams administration passed Alien and Sedition Acts

~ Jefferson and Madison proposed this resolution

500

Battle of fallen timbers and battle of horseshoe bend

~ examples of the battles that the USA fought against the pan indian movement

~ Leads into the war of 1812

~ Tecumseh

key terms 5

100

treaty of paris

~ ended revolutionary war

~ signed in paris 

200

American system

~ Henry Clay 

~ economic program 

~ increased national bank

~ high tariffs

~ emphasized federal govenment's role 

~ we can rely on ourselves and not the rest of the world

~ lets use our resources 

~ helped America industrialize and become an economic power

300

Monroe doctern 

~ Lets just focus on ourselves and the western hemisphere 

~ we don't need to rely or get involved politically with others

400

Alien and Sedition acts

~ passed because of French fright

~ gave the federal government the power to deport anyone they deemed a threat

~ gave the federal government the power to punish anyone who spoke ill of the government or its policies

~ controversial 

500

Election of 1800

~ due to adams "failed" presidency the question was of who to have lead next

~ was a test to see if two competing ideals could transition smoothly

~ called the bloodless revolution because power transitioned from two opposing ideals without bloodshed

~ The American experiment stood up to the test