Early Presidents
These are taxes levied by the government on imports to the United States.
What are Tariffs?
This building was burned to the ground by invading British troops.
What is the White House?
This tax on imports caused the economy to struggle and caused Andrew Jackson to be elected President.
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What is the "Tariff of Abominations?"
This was Jackson's group of advisors that did not hold any political power whatsoever.
What is the "Kitchen Cabinet?"
This is the concept that the Union should span the entirety of continental North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the act of European countries forcing American merchant sailors into their naval military.
What is impressment?
This purchase gave America more land from Spain, after American settlements had made claims on their territory, and General Andrew Jackson had invaded, attempting to take it over.
What is the Florida Purchase (Treaty)?
An agreement that would admit all new states in pairs of slave and free, and banned slavery north of the 36, 30' parallel line, with one exception.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was when the newly-elected President would switch out their entire cabinet with loyal supporters.
What is the "Spoils System?"
This is the concept of states trying to leave the Union.
What is secession?
These laws gave the President the power to deport non-citizens, and criminalized speech critical of the government.
What are the Alien & Sedition Acts?
This treaty established American international neutrality and settled some of the issues with Britain after the Revolution and independence.
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What is Jay's Treaty?
This is the acquisition of land that was made from the French, Napoleon.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the legislation that enabled Jackson to forcibly remove the Cherokee Natives from their homeland on the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act (of 1830)?
This is the concept of one state/nation claiming ownership of territory or land.
What is annexation?
This was a diplomatic incident when French diplomats demanded a bribe and loan from Americans to meet with the French foreign minister.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This was the first official battle of the war, and an American victory intensified animosity with both the British and the Native Americans.
What is the Battle of Tippecanoe?
This is the foreign policy that required Europe to stay out of Western Hemisphere international affairs, while in exchange the USA would stay out of Eastern Hemisphere international affairs.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This is the concept of state legislatures being able to cancel the authority of federal laws.
What is Nullification?
This war allowed the U.S. to expand into California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This treaty defined the border between the U.S. and Spanish Florida, granting access to New Orleans and shipping on the Mississippi River.
Pinckney's Treaty
This peace treaty restored pre-war boundaries and territory to both the British and American adversaries.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
This backdoor political agreement won John Quincy Adams the 1824 Presidential election, by giving the Speaker of the House (Henry Clay) the position of the Secretary of State in exchange.
What is "The Corrupt Bargain?"
This was the cause of the Panic of 1837 and the Depression from 1837-1845?
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What is deregulation, inflation, and "pet banks?"
These two concepts are involved with the movement to end slavery.
What is abolitionism and emancipation?