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Nationalism
A feeling of pride for your country, we started feeling this when we started winning battles. -
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Era of Good Feelings
An era of peace, pride, and progress where the people of the United States could focus on progress for their country. -
Adam Onis Treaty
In 1819 Spain and US signed a treaty so that US gained back more of florida, and US leaders had to $5 million of citizen claims against spain. -
Missouri Compromise
A compromise, since missouri was near the middle they made a compromise. It was added as a slave state, but certian acts with slaves were illegal. -
Mculloh vs Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. 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. Though the law, by its language, was generally applicable to all banks not chartered in Maryland, the Second Bank of the United States was the only out-of-state bank then existing in Maryland, and the law was recogn -
Sectionalism
When regions in one country start to disagree, like the North and South of the US. -
Monroe Doctrine
A doctrine that said if any eauropean country tried to colonize any land in North or South America, it would be considered as a hostile act. -
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Jacksonian Democracy
This was the political movement torwards a better democracy for the common man, created by the politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. This followed after the Jeffersonian democracy. -
Tariff of Abominations
A protective tariff passed by congress to protect industry in the northern regions of the United States. -
Spoils
The spoils system is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, -
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Whig Party
A political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Four presidents were members of the party during their terms in office. Along with the rival Democratic Party, it was central to the Second Party System from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s. It was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. -
Indian Territory
An evolving land area set aside by the United States Government for the relocation of Indians. In general, the tribes took land they occupied in exchange for land grants in an area purchased by the United States federal government from the Louisiana Purchase. The concept of an Indian Territory was an outcome of the 18th- and 19th-century policy of Indian removal. -
Indian Removal Act
Passed by Congress on May 28, 1830. 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. The act was supported by the non-Indian peoples of the South, who were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the southeastern tribes. -
States Rights Doctrine
Doctrine based on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government -
The Alamo
During Texas’ war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan volunteer soldiers occupied the Alamo, a former Franciscan mission located near the present-day city of San Antonio. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican force numbering in the thousands and led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began a siege of the fort. Though vastly outnumbered, the Alamo’s 200 defenders–commanded by James Bowie and William Travis and including the famed frontiersman Davy Crockett–held out bravely for 13 days. -
Donner Party
A group of nearly 90 immigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west for gold. Led by brothers Jacob and George Donner, the group attempted to take a new and supposedly shorter route to California. They had rough terrain and numerous delays, and they eventually became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Purportedly reduced to cannibalism to survive through the winter, only half of the original group reached California the following year. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
In February 1848, Mexico and the us signed the treaty, which ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its northern territory to the US. The land included parts of California, Nevada, and Utah. The Mexican cessation totaled more than 500,000 square miles and increased the size of the US by 25%. In exchange for the land, the US paid Mexico 15 million and paid back 3 million in debts that Americans had towards Mexico. -
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Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration in American history since it brought about 300,000 people to California. It started on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall found gold on his piece of land at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma. The news of gold quickly spread. People from Oregon, Hawaii, and Latin America were the first to hear the breaking news, so they were the first to arrive in order to test their luck in California by the end of 1848. -
49ers
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. -
Manifest destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term for the during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. O’Sullivan said ‘It was our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.’ the concept were taken up by those desiring to secure territory 1850's -
Gadsden Purchase
After the war with Mexico, Americans wanted to guarantee that southern railroads to California would be built on us soil. So the negotiated an agreement with Mexico, where the us would pay Mexico 10 million in exchange for what are now the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. With this purchase the boundary with Mexico was finally fixed.
