Topic 4: Growth of A Young Nation
an American foreign policy opposing interference in the Western hemisphere from outside powers
Monroe Doctrine
This inspired the Declaration of Sentiments
Declaration of Independence
What is popular sovereignty
Ability of the people to vote directly on an issue
Jackson defeats John Quincy Adams in this election, becoming our 7th President
Election of 1828
(1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War
Gettysburg Address
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country, increased after U.S. military success during the War of 1812
Nationalism
Movement to end slavery
Abolitionist Movement
Manifest Destiny
Belief that the U.S. was meant to expand from coast to coast
Who could vote in the election of 1828?
all white males, voting rights had been expanded and were no longer limited to property owners
Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union (Confederate States only); military strategy to encourage enslaved people to escape to the North to join the military
Emancipation Proclamation
1807 act which ended all of America's importation and exportation. Jefferson hoped the act would pressure the French and British to recognize U.S. neutrality rights in exchange for U.S. goods. Really, however, just hurt American economy and was repealed in 1809.
Embargo Act
These limitations on slaves were implemented to keep slaved from rebelling
Slave codes
Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories, admitted California as a free state, revised Fugitive Slave Act, set up a provisional government in the Southwest
Compromise of 1850
Who won the election of 1824?
John Quincy Adams
Who was Jefferson Davis?
president of the Confederacy
Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored strong STATE governments, emphasized agriculture, strict interpretation of the Constitution, pro-French, opposed National Bank ...
Democratic-Republicans
Why did fears of slave revolts grow in the early 1800s?
The slave population in the South was larger than the white population.
James K Polk
Eleventh president of the United States who was committed to westward expansion, known for being president during the "Manifest Destiny" period
Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law
McCulloch v. Maryland
Enslaved people who lived and worked in cities
sometimes worked in skilled trades.
Sent on an expedition by Jefferson to gather information on the United States' new land and map a route to the Pacific. They kept very careful maps and records of this new land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.
Lewis and Clark
Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action
Frederick Douglass
people who went to California during the gold rush of 1849
Forty-Niners
A policy of spreading more political power to more people. It was a "Common Man" theme.
Jacksonian Democracy
The capture of Vicksburg contributed to the Union victory in the Civil War by...
giving the Union the ability to move troops & supplies and to cut off part of the south.