Treaties and Foreign Policy
This was the acquisition of a large swathe of territory west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
He was the chief figurehead of the Democratic-Republican Party and the 3rd President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A political party in the late 1700s and early 1800s whose ideals featured individual farmers, small government, and democratic ideals.
Who are the Democratic-Republicans?
This was a conflict in the mid 1800s between the US and Mexico that started over border disputes following the annexation of Texas (1845) by the US.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This was a late 1700s invention that revolutionized the cotton cleaning process and greatly improved the production of raw cotton materials for textiles.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This was an agreement between the US and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the US.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
He was a military hero of the War of 1812, US President, and was the founder of the Democratic Party.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This political party was formed in the 1820s. It initially featured radical democratic ideals, small government, the continuation of slavery and agriculture.
Who are the Democrats?
This act removed, by force, the American Indians of the Southeast from their ancestral lands to new reservations in Oklahoma west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This is a design feature that allows manufacturers to produce standardized components that could be mass produced and assembled into complete products.
What is interchangeable parts?
This was an agreement between the US and Great Britain that brought an end to the boundary disputes in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
He was elected U.S. President in 1824 as part of an alleged political deal giving him the presidency over Andrew Jackson.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This political party's ideals depended on U.S. expansion to maintain a growing agricultural economy.
Who are the Democratic-Republicans or Democrats?
The forced march of Cherokee (and other tribes) to Oklahoma resulting in the suffering and death of many young, old, and sick.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This policy advocated tariffs and protections to promote the growth of domestic industry in addition to government funded national infrastructure projects.
What is Henry Clay's American System?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and ceded most of the Southwest to the U.S. for $15 million dollars.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
He was Speaker of the House, Senator, Secretary of State, and the chief figure in the National Republican Party and the Whig Party.
Who is Henry Clay?
This political party was briefly formed in the early 1800s splitting from the Democratic-Republican Party. The party prioritized trade, banking, and commerce.
Who are the National Republican Party?
A Protestant religious revival during the late 1700s to early 1800s in the U.S. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This was a period of rapid economic change in which the U.S. shifted from home production for manufactured goods to wage work and the purchasing of cheap, mass-produced goods.
What is the Market Revolution?
This executive order closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain. It was President Jefferson’s response to British and French interference with U.S. neutrality.
What is the Embargo of 1807?
This French Emperor was responsible for selling the Louisiana Purchase to the United States in 1803.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This term is used to describe the competitive political period between the Democratic Party and the Whig Party from the 1830s to the 1850s.
What is the Second Party System?
This was a social movement, during the Second Great Awakening, promoting partial or complete abstinence from the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
He was a Scottish intellectual who articulated many of the fundamental ideals of free market capitalism in the 1700s.
Who is Adam Smith?