Module Six - Nationalism and Sectionalism

Journey of the Cherokee west where 1/4 of their population died

Trail of Tears

Supreme Court ruling that strengthened the federal government’s control over the economy

McCulloch v. Maryland

Incoming officials throw out former appointees and replace them with their own friends

Spoils System

Federal government funded negotiation of treaties to move Native Americans west

Indian Removal Act

Document that warned European nations not to interfere with affairs in the Western Hemisphere

Monroe Doctrine

Social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large-scale factory production developed

Industrial Revolution

9th President of the United States who died just a month after his inauguration

William Henry Harrison

10th President of the United States who wasn’t really a Whig

John Tyler

When banks stopped accepting paper currency, banks collapsed, people lost their savings, and 1/3 of the population was out of work

Panic of 1837

“Big Ditch” 363-mile artificial waterway

Erie Canal

Henry Clay’s plan to unify the North and South’s differing economies—transportation system, protective tariff, and national bank

American System

Congressional agreement to allow Maine to enter as free state and Missouri as slave state, then drew an imaginary line across the US

Missouri Compromise

7th President of the United States

Andrew Jackson

Federally funded road that went from Maryland to Illinois

National Road

Protective tariff to help pay for internal improvements

Tariff of 1816

6th President of the United States

John Quincy Adams

Supreme Court decision that ruled in favor of the Cherokee nation that it was unconstitutional to remove them from their land

Worcester v. Georgia

New political party that split from Democrats because of Jackson’s actions;backed the American System

Whig Party

Jackson’s Vice President who opposed the Tariff of 1828

John C. Calhoun

Machine invented by Eli Whitney that cleaned seeds from cotton fibers

Cotton Gin

Production of goods in large quantities

Mass Production

Treaty where Spain gave up Florida and its claims to the Oregon Territory

Adams-Onís Treaty

Belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or those of other countries

Nationalism

8th President of the United States

Martin Van Buren

Supreme Court case that allowed the federal government to regulate everything that crosses state lines

Gibbons v. Ogden

Political party formed by Andrew Jackson’s supporters following the election of 1824

Democratic Party