History Quiz antebellum era #1

Election of 1800

cause: Jefferson (Democrat) defeats adams

effect: democratic-repbublicans take power which was 1st peaceful transition of parties (allows allien and sedition acts to expire and cuts taxes)

Louisiana Purchase

-owned by france (at war with england-napolenic wars)

-new orleans controls the enitre Mississippi river

-haitian revolution makes territory less valuable to france

-jefferson isn’t sure if it’s constitutional

-uses his treaty-making power

-15 million to double the size of us

-ratified by senate in 1803

war of 1812

causes:

1. impressment, British were stopping American ships and forcing American sailors into British navy

2. Britian seizing American ships landing in french ports-violation of neutral rights and taking cargo

3. embargo act of 1807 attempted to solve problems diplomatically by closing all American ports to foreign trade but was unpopular

4. Tecumseh, shawnee indian cheif, attacked frontier settlements

5. americans beilved the british encouraged shawnee to attack

6. william henry harrison defeted sawnee at battle of tippecanoe and the final defeat and the death of Tecumseh occured at the battle of the Thames

7. british have not left the forts in the ohio river valley and are limiting territorial expansion oppurtunities in the west

8. this is also a matter of national pride

war hawks- republicans mostly from the west and south

missouri compromise (1820)

-admitted missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

-prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana purchase

-very controversial, many worried the nation was too divided

Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

-treaty between US and Spain

-spain ceded florida to the US and redefined the boundery

-settled an ongoing boarder dispute

-benefited both nations

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

-US foreign policy opposinf european coloniallism

• told europeans to no longer interfere in the western hemisphere

• if they did, US would view this as a threat

• US promised to stay out of the affairs of existing colonies

Indian Removal Act in Georgia (1825-31)

-georgians demanded better farm land

-monroes agrees in 1825

-georgia passes laws to abolish cherokee law and government and distribute their territory to white farmers

-paved way for indian removal act (1830) and the Trial of Tears

American System

-congressmen henry clay proposed improving america’s infrastructure, roads, canals, and railways

-promoted tariff to protect american industry and a national bank to foster commerce

-monroe opposed but many projects passed by congress

Era of good feelings

-collapse of the federalist party

-rise of national unity

-James Monroe’s presidency