AP US History- Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism Flashcards

7380923001	Adams- Onis Treaty	A Treaty where the United States agreeded to acquire Florida from the Spanish in 1819.	0
7380923002	American System	Goals that was to promote domestic products, import tariffs, keep land prices high, emphasize the US bank, and improve the transportatin infastructure. It had strengthened the nation but it wasn;t popular or approved by the citizens.	1
7380924827	Francis Cabot Lowell	A Boston merchant who was an inventor that developed the power mill. He had founded the Boston Manufacutring Company, which revolutionized American manufacturing by placing bulk losing industries close to each other. This shaped American industrial labor ethnic contributed to the "hard work" appeal.	2
7380924828	Gibbons vs. Ogden	New York had granted A. Ogden to have the right to ferry passengers between New York, New Jersey and Tennesse. Gibbons had license that granted by Congress. It competed against Ogden as the New York courts favored Ogden. However, the Supreme Court handed power to Congress and claimed Gibbon's license was actually true. The Court gave Congress a greater power over interstate commerce, regulate US economy, involved with Federal government more in the US economic growth.	3
7380924861	Henry Clay	Speaker of the House who defended the southern states in the Missouri Compromise.	4
7380927379	John Quincy Adams	The Secretary of State under James Monroe. He had created in 1819 the Adams- Onis Treaty. In 1824, he had won the presidency, making him the sixth president.	5
7380927380	McCulloch vs. Maryland	The argument between the South and Western states that attempted to drive out the Federal bank branches out of business. It discouraged their business/boycott them while John Marshall defended them constitutinality. By doing tis, he confirmed more :implied powers" of the Supreme Court listed in the US Constitution.	6
7380929700	Missouri Compromise	At the time, Missouri was a slave state along with Maine, This was when any state above the southern boundary of Missouri would be free, temporary resolution to the strong sectionalism.	7
7380931900	Monroe Doctrine	Created in 1820s, which was written by John Quincy Adams. In this document, it was when the Americans would no longer be subject to colonization by European powers, that Europeans would not interfere with internal concerns of powers, symbol of growing nationalism in U.S, and dominating power in the Western Hemisphere.	8
7380931901	Sectionalism	The restriction of interest to a narrow sphere. It had undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of the general well-being.	9
7380933561	Seminole War	Occurred in Flordia and was for the US to fight against the Seminole Indians that kept raiding the American territory. Jackson had used this as an opportunity to take Spanish forts.	10
7380933562	Sequoyah	He was a Cherokee silversmith and in 1821 had completed the independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary. This made reading and writing in the Cherokee community available.	11
7380939031	Stephan H. Long	An explorer who explored the west and chart territories that went against the original plan.	12
7380939032	Tallmadge Amendment	An amendment that proposed to prohibit further introduction of slaves into Missouri, providing gradual emancipation of slaves already there. This caused a controversy between the pro and anti slavery states as the representatives for two years after it had been considered were testing the American identity of freedom.	13
7380941006	Transportation Improvements	Improvements of the methods of transportation. There were roads being built, the National Road from 1811-1818 and creation private carriages, other vehicles and stage coaches.	14
7380941007	Worcester vs. Georgia	The state of Georgia had attempted to regulate access by U.S citizen in the Cherokee country. The Supreme Court Decision was that the Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of the state government. These actions would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty and Jackson ignored it.	15