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Chp 8 and 9
Daniel Boone - William Henry Harrison
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8th Grade
01/24/2012

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Daniel Boone
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pioneer who was adopted by the Indians- taught hunting and woodland secrets
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John Finley
Definition
told Daniel Boone about kentucky
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tariffs
Definition
taxes made by the government
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Warriors Path
Definition
led into Kentucky through the CUmberland Gap
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Kentucky
Definition
first frontier or western state
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Land Ordinance of 1787
Definition
ordered accurate surveys of the land to divide it into townships
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Northwest ordinance of 1787
Definition
made special provisions for religious liberty, the freedom of speech, and the right to trial by jury
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Northwest territory
Definition
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, wisconsin, part of Minnesota
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Thomas Jefferson
Definition
President- the issue of American rights and settlement in the West would be the most important issue during his presidency
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Robert Livingston and James Monroe
Definition
went to Paris to buy New Orleans
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Lewis and Clark
Definition
was sent to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase
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Sacagwea
Definition
led Lewis and Clark- "Bird Woman"
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Zebulon Pike
Definition
explored the upper Mississippi River in the Northwest Territory
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Alexander Hamilton
Definition
one of the Founding Fathers and the first secretary of the treasury
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Aaron Burr
Definition
Jefferson's VP- killed Hamilton
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Henry Clay-
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warned that the Canadian British were stirring up the Indians to attack settlers in the west
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James Madison
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president- democratic-republican- Father of the Constitution
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William Henry Harrison
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governor of the Indian Territory- troops defeated the Indians
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Andrew Jackson
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General- led a force of Tennessee rifleman- the man from Tennessee-lawyer, judge, plantation owner, general
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Francis Scott Key
Definition
wrote the star spangled banner
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Virginia Dynasty
Definition
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe representing a group of Virginia leaders who guided our country
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James Monroe
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won the presidential election in 1816
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nationalism
Definition
national pride
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John Quincy Adams
Definition
secretary of state, told the Spanish ambassador that the United Stated had every right under the international law to act in its own self-defense
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Missouri Compromise
Definition
admitted Maine to the Union as a free state and provided for the admission
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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
prohibited any future colonization in the New World by European powers
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Kitchen Cabinet
Definition
group of Jackson's friends that met in the kitchen
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protective tariff
Definition
tax on the southerners
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John C. Calhoun
Definition
VP- argued for states' rights but not secession
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Compromise Tariff of 1833
Definition
lower duties on foreign goods coming into the country over a period of 10 years
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Force Bill
Definition
gave the president authority to us the army and navy to enforce tariff laws
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Abolitionists
Definition
wanted to abolish slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
Definition
one of the best known radical abolitionists- published an abolitionist paper known as The Liberator
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Frederick Douglass
Definition
published an abolitionist paper- The North Star
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Nat Turner
Definition
black preacher- stirred up a slave rebellion in Virginia
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Nat Turner Revolt
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60 white people(mostly women and children) were murdered
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President Martin Van Buren
Definition
candidate for President after Jackson (8th President)
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Whigs
Definition
party made up of former National Republicans and member of other groups -did not like President Jackson
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William Henry Harrison
Definition
first Whig President- nickname was “Old Tippecanoe”- was the first President to die in office (9th President)
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John Tyler
Definition
vice president of Harrison- also 10th President- supported states rights
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Webster- Ashburton Treaty
Definition
United States gained more than half of the disputed territory between Maine an Canada
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