A sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase territory above the latitude of 36 30’
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Spain gave up its claim to the Pacific coast to this state.
What is California?
100
He was the first "people's president."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
A descriptive term for the era of Pres. James Monroe. During his administration, partisan conflict abated and bold federal initiatives suggested increased nationalism.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
100
He supported Jackson in vetoing the bank and was Jackson's Vice President.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
200
An 1828 protective tariff, or tax on imports, motivated by special interest groups. It resulted in substantial increase in duties that angered many southern free traders.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
200
Signed by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Spanish minister Luis de Onis in 1819, this treaty allowed for U.S annexation of Florida.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
200
This person started the Nullification Crisis.
Who is John Calhoun?
200
This was Monroe’s goal in office.
What is Political/National Harmony?
200
A financial depression that lasted until the 1840s.
What is the Panic of 1837?
300
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole
What are the Five Civilized Tribes?
300
The increase in transportation facilities, specifically canals and steamboats facilitated this.
What is the market economy and commerce?
300
He tried to save the bank.
What is Nicholas Biddle known for?
300
The foreign policy initiative calling for an end to all European colonization efforts in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
300
In the winter of 1838 - 1839, the Cherokee were forced to evacuate their lands in Georgia and travel under military guard to present-day Oklahoma. Due to exposure and disease, roughly one-quarter of the sixteen thousand forced migrants died en route.
What is the Trail of Tears?
400
A national economic strategy championed by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, the American system stressed high tariffs and internal improvements.
What is the American System?
400
Convention in 1818 that set the border between the lands of the Louisiana Purchase and Canada at the 49th parallel and provided U.S. and British occupation of Oregon.
What is the Anglo-American Convention of 1818?
400
A labor activist who founded the Lowell Female Labor Association in 1844.
Who is Sarah Bagley?
400
He was the Chief Justice from 1801 to 1835 who expanded federal power.
Who is John Marshall?
400
These two people were the leaders of the Whigs.
Who are Henry Clay and Daniel Webster?
500
(Double Jeopardy) Treaty signed in 1823 that reduced tribal holdings.
What is the Treaty of Moultrie Creek?
500
This agreement limited U.S. and British naval forces on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain and guaranteed that the British would never try to invade the United States from Canada and that the United States would never try to take Canada from the British.
What is the Rush-Bagot Agreement?
500
(Double Jeopardy) A New York merchant who founded the fur-trading post of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River in the Oregon Country.
Who is John Jacob Astor?
500
Ruling on this banking case in 1819, the Supreme Court propped up the idea of “implied powers” meaning the Constitution could be broadly interpreted. This pivotal ruling also asserted the supremacy of federal power over state power.
What was the effect of the McCulloch v. Maryland case?
500
These two people were members of Jackson’s kitchen cabinet.