APUSH chapters 8-10 in class notea\s

germans

• diverse- protestants Catholics and free thinkers

• mainly farmers in the northwest

• opposes the Whigs for their temperaments campaign

irish

• mainly due to the potato famine

• did not create institutionally complete communities

• mostly catholic and clashes with americans over public schools

• heavily employed on textile mills,

english

• worked in factories

• americans saw as econoic assests in both rural and urban areas

• opposes the Whigs for their temperaments campaign

Rush-Bagot Agreement 1817

• First "disarmament" agreement.

• The United States and Britain agreed not to maintain an armed fleet in the Great Lakes.

National Road

• question of who was going to fund transportation improvements

• cumberland, maryland to wheeling, virginia

• funded by the national government

internal improvements

• included roads, canals, and railroads

• essentially an internal transportation network that would bind the country together

• Calhoun’s internal improvement bill proposed for federal government to finance interal improvements

• Madison vetoed, for he believed Congress did not have authority to fund the project

erie canal

• waterway connection NY to the great lakes

• made in response to Americans moving westward

era of good feelings

• surge in nationalism - just won 2 wars, western expansion

• 1820: James Monroe wins, only one party - Democratic-Republican Party

Adams-Onis treaty

• Seminole War: invasion of Flordia by Jackson

• the treaty was the result of this war

• Spain ceded all of Flordia and claim to Oregon and assumed $5,000,000 worth of civilian claims against Spain.

• American gov. gave up its claims to Texas

• The western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase was formalized.

missouri compromise 1820

• there were 11 slave and 11 free states, the addition of Missouri would sirupt that balance and cause the North to have more power

• Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state

• Missouri would be added as a slave state

• slavery prohibited north of the 36 30 parallel

• lead to an increase in sectionalism

• worked out by Henry Clay

court cases

• fletcher v. peck 1810: The decision stemmed from the Yazoo land cases, 1803, and upheld the sanctity of contracts. First time a state law is declared unconstitutional: contract clause of the Constitution overrode state law.

• Dartmouth College v. Woodward 1819: New Hampshire had attempted to take over Dartmouth College by revising its colonial charter. The Court ruled that the charter was protected under the contract clause of the U. S. Constitution. It upheld the sanctity of contracts. The charter of a private corporation is protected under the Constitution.

• McCulloch v. Maryland 1819: The Court ruled that a state cannot tax the federal government (i.e. the Bank of the United States); used the phrase “the power to tax is the power to destroy;”; confirmed the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States. “implied powers”

• Gibbons v. Ogden 1824: issue was w/ interstate trade, stated that only Congress could regulate interstate trade.

monroe doctrine

• written by John Adams

• wanted europe to stay out of Latin America, US would consider any challenge as unfriendly

• in return, US would stay out of european affairs

• us would become a dominant power in the western himisphere

• Proclaimed the United States' opinion that European powers should no longer colonize the Americas or interfere with the affairs of sovereign nations located in the Americas.

• In return, the United States planned to stay neutral in wars between European powers.

indian removal act

the piece of legislation that resulted in the trail of tears

famine of 1837

1836- the speech circleated by Jackson was to stop some over producing of paper

turnpikes

before canals were popular, the main form of transportation was what

railroads

initially it was to connect canals

telegraphs

what went along side the rain roads that was used for communication

Know nothings

this group created a new organization- nativists, American party