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Nationalism
The strong belief that the interest of a particular nation state are of primary importance. Also the belief that people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. -
era of good feeling
a phrase first used in Boston Columbian centienl newspaper on July 12, 1817 following the good-will visit to Boston of the New President James Monroe -
Mccolluh V MAryland
landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S The state of Maryland had attempted to impeded opereation of abranch of the Second bank of the U.S by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not charted in Maryland. -
Adams onis treaty
Also known as the transconinetal treaty, the mFlorida Purchase treaty, or the Florida treaty, was a treaty between the U.S and spain and it defined the boundary between the U.S and New Spain. -
Missouri Comprimise
was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the state of Missouri. -
Sante fe Trail
19 th century transportation route through central North America that connected INdependence, Misoouri with Sante Fe, New Mexico made in 1821 -
Monroe Doctrine
U.S foreign POlicy regarding domination of the America's in 1823. It states that the further efforts by european nations to colonize land or intefere with states in NOrth or South America would be viewed as acts of agression, requiring U.S intervention -
Bureau of Indian affairs
agency of the fedral government to control INdian affairs within the U.S department of the interior -
Jacksonian Democracy
the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man typified by American Politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. -
Tarrif of abominations
traiff passed by the congress of the U.S on May 19, 1828designed to protect the industry in the northern U.S -
Spoils system
the practice of a succesful political party giving public office to its supporters . This Practice took place in 1829 when Andrew Jackson was elected -
States Rights Doctrine
doctrine based on the tenth amendment to constitution,which states, "The powers not delegated to the U.S by the constitutio, nor prohibited by it to the states , are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. -
Indian Territory
described an evolving land areaa set aside by the U.S government for the relocation of Indians who held aboriginal title to their land -
Indian Removal Act
passed by congress on May 28,1830, during the presidnecy of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi Rivcer in exchangfe for their ancestoral Honadonds -
Nullification Crisis
SEctional crisis in 1832-1833, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson which involved a confrontation bewtween South CArolina and the federal government -
Whig Party
a political party active in the middle of the 19 th century in the U.S four presidents were members of the party during their terms in office. Along with the rival of the democratic party. -
Alamo
defined as amission in San Antonio, Texas that was used as a fort during the Texas Revolution. An example of the Alamo is the site of 187 texan deaths in 1836. THe definition of an alamo is a popular tree from the southwest area of the U.S -
Trail of tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackso's Indian Removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the Mississippi River and to migrate ta an area in present day bOKlohoma. -
Oregon Trail
2,200 mile historic east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and immigrant trail that connected the missouri river to valley in oregon -
donner party
group of American Pioneers led by George Donner and James Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in MAy 1846. Delayed by a series of misaps and mistakes, they spent of 1846-47 snowbound in Sierra Nevada -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
officially entilted the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, limits and settlement between the U.S and Mexican Repunlic, is the peace treaty signed on Febuary 2, 1848 in th villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo -
forty niner
a prospector in the California Gold Rush of 1849. People went to California furing this time in seek of becoming wealty -
Sectionalism
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or pretty distinctions at the expense at the expense of general well-being. -
GAsden Purchase
was an agreement between the U.S and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the U.S agreed to Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 aquare mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona an New Mexico
