19th Century Politics
The time period between the end of the War of 1812 and the Election of 1824
What is the Era of Good Feelings
Passed in 1830, authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate land-exchange treaties with tribes living east of the Mississippi. The treaties enacted under this act's provisions paved the way for the reluctant—and often forcible—emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The two largest European ethnicities that immigrated to the US, one settling mostly in northeastern cities, the other settling in the rural midwest.
What are the Irish and Germans.
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland.
What is a canal?
The political party that dissolved at the end of the War of 1812.
The Federalist Party
Signed by only 500 Cherokee Indians who were bribed saying that all 17,000 Cherokee's must leave within 2 years to go to land in Louisiana Territory. IF not they would be forced to leave by the United States Army on the Trail of Tears.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
Some of the greatest fears that Americans had regarding immigrants?
What are loss of jobs, violence, religious differences, different cultures, election fraud.
A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825. The canal, considered a marvel of the modern world at the time, allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to sell in the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to sell in the West.
What is the Erie Canal?
The political party that separated from the Democrat-Republican party in response to the Election of 1824.
What is Jacksonian Democrats?
The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee.
"The Five Civilized Tribes"
The country Mr. Hayden studied in and knows every part of its history.
What is Ireland?
An easier, cheaper, and faster method of traveling over water than over land on roads, allowing farmers to transport goods from inland rural farms to commercial cities on the east coast.
What are the benefits of canals?
After the 1824 election, part of the Democratic - Republican party joined John Q. Adams, Clay, and Daniel Webster to oppose Andrew Jackson. They favored nationalistic measures like recharter of the Bank of the United States, high tariffs, and internal improvements at national expense. They were supported mainly by Northwesterners and were not very successful. They were conservatives alarmed by Jackson's radicalness; they joined with the Whigs in the 1830's.
What is National Republican Party?
Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty - Jackson ignored it
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The natural and economic disaster that forced over 2 million Irish citizens to flee their homes and seek better lives in the United States.
What is the Potato Famine?
The US expanded further west, major cities began to develop as transit hubs, goods were able to move back and forth across the country faster.
What are the results of railroad and canal transportation?
The division in lifestyles, cultures, economic and political interests centered around geographic location, scene especially in the Election of 1824.
What is sectionalism?
The principal chief of the Cherokee, who fiercely opposed the forced removal from their home land to the other side of the Mississippi.
Who is John Ross?
The political party comprised of anti-immigrant Americans who wanted to impose a 21-year naturalization process and tax immigrants upon arriving in the U.S.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?