The 2nd War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism
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| 86779864 | Unprepared because of these economic reasons | 1. Embargo Act 2. Non-Intercourse Act 3. Macon's Bill No. 2 | |
| 86779865 | Fort of Michilimackinac | commanded the upper Great Lakes area | |
| 86779866 | Battle of Thames | British defeat by Gen. William Henry Harrison; helped bring enthusiasm and increased morale for the war. | |
| 86779867 | Bladensburg | where the British easily defeated the Americans by burning the government buildings | |
| 86779868 | Fort McHenry | defended Baltimore; drove off British; inspiration for Francis Scott Key's "The Star-Spangled Banner" | |
| 86779869 | Battle of Horseshoe Bend | Andrew Jackson defeated the Creeks during the War of 1812 | |
| 86779870 | Treaty of Ghent | Ends the War of 1812, returns to status quo | |
| 86779871 | Hartford Convention | meeting of Federalists from Dec 1814 to Jan 1815; threatened to succeed; proved to be the death of the Federalist party | |
| 86779872 | War Heroes during the War of 1812 | Andrew Jackson & William Henry Harrison | |
| 86779873 | Manufacturing prospered because... | during the British blockade there was nothing else to do | |
| 86779874 | Led to peace in Europe | Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo | |
| 86779875 | Rush- Bagot Treaty | in 1817 after a naval arms race in the Great Lakes between the U.S. and Britain provided the world's longest unfortified border (5,527 mi) | |
| 86779876 | Authors | Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 86779877 | Stephen Decatur | naval hero of the War of 1812 and the Barbary Coast expeditions | |
| 86779878 | The American System | 1. Protective Tariff 2. Re-charter a National Bank 3. National Financing of Transportation Systems Devised mainly by Henry Clay of KY | |
| 86779879 | James Monroe | Elected in 1816 defeated federalist opponent short period of one-party rule | |
| 86779880 | Panic of 1819 | This was the first widespread economic crisis in the United States which brought deflation, depression, backrushes, bank failures, unemployment and soup kitchens. This set back nationalism to more sectionalism and hurt the poorer class, which gave way to Jacksonian Democracy. | |
| 86779881 | 9 | How many states had joined the original 13 between 1791 and 1819 | |
| 86779882 | The Cumberland Road | Extended from western Maryland to Illinois; provided a better, safer road for interstate travel | |
| 86779883 | 1st Steamboat | appeared on western waters in 1811 | |
| 86779884 | The West | not populous and politically weak, forced to ally itself with other sections, and demanded cheap acreage | |
| 86779885 | Land Act of 1820 | gave the West its wish by authorizing a buyer to purchase 80 acres of land at a minimum of $1.25; also brought cheap transportation | |
| 86779886 | Tallmadge Amendment | This was an attempt to have no more slaves to be brought to Missouri and provided the gradual emancipation of the children of slaves. In the mind of the South, this was a threat to the sectional balance between North and South. | |
| 86779887 | Missouri Compromise | Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820) | |
| 86779888 | John Marshall | Chief supreme court justice; helped to bolster the power of the government at the expense of the states | |
| 86779889 | McCulloch v. Maryland | Maryland was denied the right to tax the federal bank; Marshall invoked the principle of implied powers (1819) | |
| 86779890 | Cohens v. Virginia | Marshall asserted the right of the Supreme Court to review the decisions of the state courts (1821) | |
| 86779891 | Gibbons v. Ogden | Congress can control interstate commerce (1824) | |
| 86779892 | Fletcher v. Peck | States couldn't impair a contract (1810) | |
| 86779893 | Dartmouth College v. Woodward | Daniel Webster was lawyer; Constitution protected charters | |
| 86779894 | Russo-American Treaty | 1824- Oregon sets Northern Border of Oregon at 54 40 N. Lat | |
| 86779895 | Monroe Doctrine | said no more colonization in the Americas could happen | |
| 86779896 | Judiciary Act of 1789 | established a six member Supreme Court, district courts, and circuit courts of appeal. | |
| 86779897 | The Constitutional Judiciary | Article III creates "one Supreme Court" |
