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APUSH- CH.9
Nation Building and Nationalism
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11th Grade
08/31/2010

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Rush-Bagot Agreement
Definition

(1817)

*allowed the US to occupy the Great Lakes and Champlain under the conditions that the US would not invade Canada and vice versa

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Anglo-American Convention of 1818
Definition
set the border between the lands of the Lousiana Purchase and Canada at the 49th parallel- resulted in British occupation in Oreggon
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Lousiana
Definition
became a state in 1812
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Adams-Onis Treaty
Definition

-signed on Feb.22,1819

- started with Jackson entering East Florida, but in 1818, Secretary Adams told the Spanish government that there was no conflict unless Florida could ceded to the US

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Results of Adams -Onis Treaty
Definition

1.)Spain gave up claims to North Claifornia as well

2)Spain wanted to keep Texas(originally part of the LA purchase)

3.) US westward expansion

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John Jacob Astor
Definition

founded the fur trading post of Astoria in 1811

-operated out of St. Louis

-originally traded with Indians, but soon grew open to other trappers as well

 

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Black Hawk
Definition

was  moved out Mississippi by the treaty of 1815

-refused to go

- militia pursued him and drove him back to the river, where almost all of his troop was exterminated

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Indian population in 1810
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severely decreased- only 1/7 of original populaton exsisted
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preemption
Definition

where the government buys the land and tries to resell it

 

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James Fenimore Cooper
Definition

"Leatherstocking tales"

featuring Natty Bumpo

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new transportation
Definition

 

- National Road between Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac River and Wheeling Virginia, on the Ohio River(eventually to reach Vandalia, Illinois)

-Lancaster Turnpike- connected Philedalphia and Pittsburgh

-steamboats up and down the Mississippi river(regulated in 1838 by the government)

-Erie Canal

 

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Erie Canal
Definition

-built to connect the great lakes

-NY governor De Witt sponsored the project

- 364 miles long

- completed in 1825

 

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Market Economy

 

Definition

- commercial agriculture

-Commerce

- Banking

 

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cotton gin
Definition

invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney

- made cotton marketable by improving the process of refining cotton

-boosted Southern economy

 

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causes of Deep South market economy(4)
Definition
1. demand of cotton in Great Britain
2. invention of the cotton gin
3. availibility of lands in the Southwest
4. slavery
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Textile Mill industry
Definition

established by Boston merchants Francis Lowell, Nathan Appleton, and Percy Jackson

-began operation in 1813

- icon for marketing

- bad working conditions

 

 

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Sarah Blagley
Definition
founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform
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"era of a good feeling"
Definition

-occurred during James Madison's presidency

- refers to the myth of national harmony as a result of no a party system to offer voters a selection of ideologies

 

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reestablishent of a national bank
Definition
-December 1815
President Madison proposed to Congress
- protected tariff fo r industry
- included federal improvements
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American System

 

Definition

-led by Henry Clay

- tariff to stimulate economic growth

 

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 results for enacting the neo-federalist American System
Definition

1.) enacted tariff raising import duties by avg. of 25%

2.)deemed necessary because British manufactering was threatening US industry

 

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Establlishment of the 2nd bank of the US
Definition

1.) 20 year charter

2.)capital of $35 million

3.) right to establish branches throughout the country as needed

4) public-private institution- governmnet owns 1/5 stock and appointing 5/25 directors

 

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Missouri Compromise
Definition
voted that Missouri was a slave state and that Maine was a free state
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward

 

Definition
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