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| 234950299 | Treaty Of Ghent | December 24, 1814 - Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border | 0 | |
| 234950300 | Hartford Convention | Meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party. These actions were largley viewed as traitorous to the country and lost the Federalist much influence | 1 | |
| 234950301 | Second Bank Of The United States | chartered in 1816, much like its predecessor of 1791 but with more capital; it could not forbid state banks from issuing notes, but its size and power enabled it to compel the state banks to issue only sound notes or risk being forced out of business. | 2 | |
| 234950302 | Rush - Bagot Agreement | The treaty laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North America. This agreement was indicative of improving relations between the United States and Great Britain in the period following the War of 1812, treaty between the United States and Britain enacted in 1817 (signed April 28-29, 1817 in Washington, DC). The treaty provided for the demilitarization of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval arrangements and forts still remained | 3 | |
| 234950303 | American System | an economic regime pioneered by Henry Clay which created a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building. This approach was intended to allow the United States to grow and prosper by themselves | 4 | |
| 234950304 | Panic Of 1819 | Economic panic caused by extensive speculation and a decline of Europena demand for American goods along with mismanagement within the Second Bank of the United States. Often cited as the end of the Era of Good Feelings. | 5 | |
| 234950305 | Dartmouth College v. Woodward | This 1819 Marshall Court decision was one of the earliest and most important U.S. Supreme Court decisions to interpret the contracts clause in Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution. The case arose from a dispute in New Hampshire over the state's attempt to take over Dartmouth College. By construing the Contract Clause as a means of protecting corporate charters from state interventions, Marshall derived a significant constitutional limitation on state authority. As a result, private corporations enjoyed protection from state legislature. Marshall encouraged the emergence of unregulated private economic actor as a major participant in a growing national economy. | 6 | |
| 234950306 | McCulloch v. Maryland | 1819, Cheif justice John Marshall shows the limit of the US constition and of the authority of the federal and state govts. One side was opposed to establishment of a national bank and challenged the authority of federal govt to establish one. Supreme court ruled that power of federal govt was supreme and states couldn't interfere | 7 | |
| 234950307 | Oliver Hazard Perry | "We during the War of 1812. Won battle on Lake Erie against the British. After the battle, he sent William Henry Harrison a note that said this famous quote.have me the enemy, and they are ours." Naval hero who helped keep the British from invading by the lakes and helped boost nationalsim | 8 | |
| 234950308 | Thomas Macdonough | Commanded the weaker American fleet and challenged the British. He made the British army retreat, saving New York from conquest | 9 | |
| 234950309 | William Henry Harrison | Govenor of the Indiana territory, that fought against Tecumseh and the Prophet in the battle of Tippecanoe | 10 | |
| 234950310 | Francis Scott - Key | United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 while on a Britih ship trying to find a doctor | 11 | |
| 234950311 | Gibbons v. Ogden | The case was started when New York tried to grant a monopoly on waterborne trade between New York and New Jersey. Judge Marshal, of the Supreme Court, sternly reminded the state of New York that the Constitution gives only Congress the control of interstate commerce. Marshal's decision, in 1824, was a major blow on states' rights. | 12 | |
| 234950312 | Fletcher v. Peck | Supreme Court case which protected property rights and asserted the right to invalidate state laws in conflict with the Constitution | 13 | |
| 234950313 | Prosser's Rebellion | 1800, A large slave uprising inspired by a slave revolt in the Caribbean. Prosser, a slave with blacksmith skills, had been allowed to travel extensively for work. Over the his travels he organized hundreds of slaves into a rebellion. It led to increased criticism of slavery in the north, and tightening of slave laws in the south. | 14 | |
| 234950314 | Missouri Compromise | Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state and causing the breakdown of equilibrium in the Union so there would be more slave states then free states. The compromise let Maine join as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. Congress also made a line across the southern border of Missouri saying except for the state of Missouri, all states north of that line must be free states or states without slavery. | 15 | |
| 234950315 | Land Act Of 1820 | authorized a buyer to purchase 80 virgin acres at a minimum of $1.25 an acre. The West also demanded cheap transportation and cheap money. | 16 | |
| 234950316 | Monroe Doctrine | A statement on foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. Which was written after a alliance offer from Britan | 17 | |
| 234950317 | Russo - American Treaty of 1824 | This treaty between Russia and America set the southern borders of Russian holdings in America at the line of 54 degrees- 40', the southern tip of Alaska. | 18 | |
| 234950318 | Adams - Onis Treaty | Spain ceded Florida to the United States and gave up its claims to the Oregon Territory | 19 | |
| 234950319 | Andrew Jackson | The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. | 20 | |
| 234950320 | Washington Irving | Author, diplomat, wrote The Sketch Book, which included "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the first American to be recognized in England (and elsewhere) as a writer | 21 | |
| 234950321 | James Fenimore Cooper | United States novelist noted for his stories of American Indians and the frontier life (1789-1851) | 22 | |
| 234950322 | Daniel Webster | Famous American politician and orator. he advocated renewal and opposed the financial policy of Jackson. Many of the principles of finance he spoke about were later incorporated in the Federal Reserve System. Would later push for a strong union. | 23 |
