Jefferson's Presidency
War that started because the ruler of Tripoli (in North Africa) demanded tribute from America
What is the First Barbary War?
To win the American Revolution, the United States had accepted aid from this country.
What is France?
A proposed program of internal improvements to jumpstart the American economy (included creation of a new national bank, building roads & canals, and tariffs)
What is the American System?
This President declared that the Americas were no longer open to European colonization.
Who is James Monroe?
What is the Democratic Party?
British practice of kidnapping American sailors and forcing them to serve in the British Royal Navy.
What is impressment?
Brother of the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa that allied with the British.
Who is Tecumseh?
Nickname for the time of single party rule (the Republicans) in the United States.
What is the "Era of Good Feelings"?
In 1819, through the Adams-Onís Treaty, the United States acquired this territory from Spain.
What is Florida?
Jackson's leading rival, Henry Clay, was a member of this party.
What is the Whig Party?
When the US government purchased over 800,000 square miles of territory in North America from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Nickname for members of Congress who called for war with Britain (included Clay and Calhoun).
Who are the "War Hawks"?
Compromise that maintained a balance of power in Congress and drew a line across the Louisiana Territory to separate future free and slave territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The federal government forced an estimated 60,000 Native peoples from their homeland, through this 1830 act.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
During Andrew Jackson’s presidency, voting rights were expanded to most white men by eliminating this requirement.
What is the property requirement?
This law prohibited American ships from leaving their ports until Britain and France stopped seizing them.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
During the Battle of Fort McHenry, this man penned the poem that would later become the US national anthem.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
Crisis that started with John C. Calhoun, (South Carolina) arguing that states had the right to prevent the enforcement of federal laws within their borders.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This device revolutionized the Southern economy by making it easier to separate seeds from short-staple cotton, dramatically increasing the demand for slave labor.
What is the cotton gin?
The US Supreme Court had declared this constitutional and had renewed its charter until 1836, but Jackson made it his personal mission to shut it down.
What is the national bank?
This election saw the first peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another and the death of the Federalist party.
What is the election of 1800?
This treaty formally ended the war, and involved no significant change in pre-war borders or boundaries.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
Andrew Jackson persuaded Congress to authorize this bill, which gave him the power to use the army and navy to enforce federal laws and tariffs at the state level.
What is the Force Bill?
A federally-funded project that connected the Northeast (Virginia) to the West (Illinois).
What is the Cumberland Road?
Andrew Jackson defended this controversial practice of giving government jobs to loyal supporters and political allies.
What is the spoils system?