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Nationalism
Due to great success, Americans felt pride and loyalty to the nation. The feeling is known as nationalism. The new unity found a strong supporter in U.S. representitative Henry Clay. -
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Era of Good Feelings
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Sectionalism
It threatened the union through disagreements between the different regions of the U.S. One example arose in 1819 considering Missouri's application to enter the union as a slave state. Maybe thats why it's named after missoury -
The Adams Onis Treaty
Spain & the U.S. signed the treaty to settle the dispute with the southern boarder (texas). Spain gave east Florida in return for Texas, the U.S. payed up to $5million for this land -
McCulloch vs Maryland
The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. -
The Missouri Comprimise
Henry Clay came up with the idea of a comprimise to settle the conflict risen from the application of state hood. Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase -
Santa Fe Trail
Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1821 until 1846, it was an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders. In 1846, the Mexican-American War began. The Army of the West followed the Santa Fe Trail to invade New Mexico. When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war in 1848, the Santa Fe Trail became a national road connecting the United States to the new southwest territorie -
Monroe Doctrine
An exclusive statement of American policy warning European powers to not interfere with the Americas. Issued by the President in early December -
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The creation of a new agency to manage the Indian Removal Act. -
Jacksonian Democracy
The period of expanding democracy throughout the 1820's &30's which arose through nominating conventions where party members chose the party's candidates -
States Rights Doctrine
A doctrine and strategy in which the rights of the individual states are protected by the U.S. Constitution from interference by the federal government. -
Tariff of Abominations
The Tariff of Abominations was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. -
Spoils System
The practice of giving government jobs to political backers. Began in the election of 1828. -
The Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Indian Territory
Where the indians were moved to during the indian removal act in 1830 (todays oklahoma). -
The Whig Party
The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Three Presidents were current members of the Party. Along with the rival Democratic Party, it was central to the Second Party System from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s. -
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Nullification Crisis
The sectional crisis that occured during the presidency of Andrew Jackson involving a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. The crisis ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional. -
Oregon Trail
The 2,200-mile east-west trail served as a critical transportation route for emigrants traveling from Missouri to Oregon and other points west during the mid-1800s. Travelers were inspired by dreams of gold and rich farmlands, but they were also motivated by difficult economic times in the east and the diseases like yellow fever and malaria that were decimating the Midwest around 1837. -
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Trail of Tears
As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Manifest Destiny
Expressed the belief that it was Anglo-Saxon Americans’ providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America. This expansion would involve not merely territorial aggrandizement but the progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity as well. -
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The Donner Party
The Donner party left Springfield, Illinois, in April 1846. Led by two wealthy brothers, Jacob and George Donner, the emigrants initially followed the regular California Trail westward to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. -
Forty Niners
The immigrants who left their homes to travel to the west coast in hopes of striking gold in todays California. -
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California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the California territory was some 100,000. This led to the creation of the Forty Niners. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic. -
Gadsden Purchase
The treaty to bring parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico into the United States was signed on December 30th, 1853.
