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| location of a major British defeat. The overconfident British (8,000) led a frontal attack against the 7,000 militiamen. British lost 2,ooo compared to the Americans loss of 70 |
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| Led the Battle of New Orleans. It was an astonishing victory for him and his men |
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| an armistice. The British and Americans agreed to stop fighting & to restore conquered territory |
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| most spectacular manifestation of Federalist discontent. 26 men all from MA, CT, RI, NH, VT met to discuss their grievances & seek redress for their wrongs |
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| by 1814 a Virginian had been president for all but 4 yrs |
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| Sectionalism had a folly. Most conspicuous casualty of the war was the Federalist party. War heroes Jackson & Harrison emerged. Bred greater American independence. Heightened nationalism |
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| A profitable home market by Henry Clay. had 3 main parts. A strong banking system, easy & abundand credit. A protective tariff, eastern manufacturing would flourish. A network of roads & canals, knit country together economically & politically |
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| nominated for president in 1816 by Republicans. Led during the Era of Good Feelings. Name attached to the Monroe Doctrine & Monrovia. Died deep in debt |
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| happy phase commonly used to describe the administrations of Monroe. (bit of a misnomer in troubled times) |
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| economic panic. Brought deflation, depression, bankruptcies, bank failures, unemployment, soup kitchens, & debtors prisons. Due to overspeculation in frontier lands |
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| ran ultimately from western Maryland to Illinois |
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| stipulated that no more slaves should be brought into Missouri and provided for the gradual emancipation of children born to slave parents already there |
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| Congress agreed to admit missouri as a slave state but Maine was admitted as a separate state, keeping N & S balanced. Both yielded & gained something |
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| Once a territory of Spain. Was ceded to America in 1819 along w/ shadowy claims to Oregon in exchange for America's abandonment of equally murky claims to Texas |
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| 1823. Adams won Monroe over to his way of thinking. To Congress a stern warning of European powers had two basic features; noncolonialization & nonintervention (self-defense doctrine) |
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| "settlers of the old northwest" |
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| westward movement after war of 1812. Indians lost grip on territory. 1st wave (KY, TN, VA, & Carolinas) getting away from useless soil to rich soil. Yankees from NE, wanted good land. Cultivation & religion conflict N & S. As area grew, tension started to fade |
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