Vocabulary for Chapter 12 of The American Pageant, 13th Edition.
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| United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812 | ||
| 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after | ||
| A lawyer and poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Key wrote the words to " The Star-Spangled Banner" while watching the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, Maryland, in the War of 1812. | ||
| A general and political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As a general in the War of 1812, he defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. He was called "Old Hickory." He was elected president after John Quincy Adams as a candidate of the common man, and his style of government came to be known as Jacksonian democracy. He rewarded his political supporters with positions once he became president ( see spoils system). A Democrat, he was widely criticized for expanding the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time. | ||
| A nineteenth-century American author. " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are two of his best-known works. | ||
| An American author of the early nineteenth century, known for his works set on the American frontier, such as the series The Leatherstocking Tales and The Last of the Mohicans. | ||
| An artificial waterway built across New York state in the early nineteenth century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River. The canal opened trade between New York and the midwestern states and aided in the growth of New York City as a port. | ||
| an act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri. | ||
| the war between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815. | ||
| the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation, viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations. | ||
| a tariff levied on imports to protect the domestic economy rather than to raise revenue | ||
| excessive or narrow-minded concern for local or regional interests as opposed to the interests of the whole | ||
| Noncolonization was a principle of the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed by United States president James Monroe in 1823. It stated that the Americas should undergo no further colonization by European powers. | ||
| abstention by a nation from interference in the affairs of other nations or in those of its own political subdivisions. | ||
| The policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities. | ||
| In 1816, during the administration of President James Madison, the Democratic-Republicans reversed course and supported its creation. It was patterned after the first and quickly established branches throughout the Union. | ||
| Landmark Supreme Court case in which Maryland tryed to impose taxes on the Second Bank of the United States. It made it illegal for a state to impede constitutional exercises. | ||
| A law made to protect the US economy from the build up of British goods that had accumulated during the War of 1812. | ||
| An economic system based upon the ideas of Alexander Hamilton. It included a high tariff to support international improvements and a national bank to encourage enterprise. | ||
| Supreme Court case in which it was decided that Congress held the power to regulate interstate commerce. | ||
| A bill introduced by John C. Calhoun to provide a federal highway linking The East and South to The West using the earnings Bonus from the Second Bank of the United States | ||
| A treaty signed in 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom. It resolved standing boundary issues between the two nations, and allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country. | ||
| The first major financial crisis in the United States, which occurred during the end of the Era of Good Feelings. | ||
| It was fought on November 7, 1811, between United States forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and forces of Tecumseh's growing American Indian confederation led by his younger brother Tenskwatawa. | ||
| A decisive American victory in the War of 1812. It took place on October 5, 1813, near present-day Chatham, Ontario in Upper Canada. It resulted in the death of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, and the destruction of the Native American coalition which he led. | ||
| The policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the U.S. opposed further European colonization of and interference with independent nations in the Western Hemisphere. | ||
| Signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent (modern day Belgium), it was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. | ||
| An event spanning from December 15, 1814-January 4, 1815 in the United States during the War of 1812 in which New England's opposition to the war reached the point where secession from the United States was discussed. The end of the war with a return to the status quo ante bellum disgraced the Federalist Party, which disbanded in most places. | ||
| Took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812. American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory America had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase.The Treaty of Ghent had been signed on December 24, 1814, but news of the peace would not reach the combatants until February. The battle is often regarded as the greatest American land victory of the war. |
