Revolution of 1800 to Nullification Crisis

Flashcards covering key vocabulary from the lecture on the Revolution of 1800, Jeffersonian Republic, War of 1812, and Jacksonian Democracy.

Federalist Party Split (1800)

The splitting of the Federalist Party due to infighting between Hamilton and Adams.

Election of 1800 Uniqueness

An election where the President did not get to choose their own vice president.

12th Amendment (1804)

Allowed a candidate to run on a party ticket with a VP.

Judiciary Act

An act that gave the president the ability to establish 16 new federal judges at the end of his term.

Midnight Appointments

Adams filling as many judges as he could at the end of his term via letters.

Marbury v. Madison

A SC case in which William Marbury didn’t receive his letter but argued that the position was owed to him which Jefferson was rejecting to accept.

Judicial Review

The SC could determine whether something is or is not constitutional

Louisiana Purchase

The purchase of a large territory from France during Jefferson's presidency.

Essex Junto

A group formed by New England Federalists who planned to secede from the US.

Quids

Republicans that criticized Jefferson for violating Republican Principles

Lewis and Clark

Explorers sent by Jefferson to investigate the newly purchased Louisiana Territory.

Embargo Act of 1807

The act that shut down America's imports and export business, with drastic economic consequences

Non-Intercourse Act of 1809

The act that reopened trade with most nations, but not Britain and France.

Macon’s Bill No. 2

Reopened trade with France and England, with a provision that if either country renounced interference with American trade, the US would cut off trade with the other.

War Hawks

Pro-war advocates who wanted to grab new territories and gain Canada from the British.

Tecumseh

Unified area tribes in an effort to stop american expansion

Treaty of Ghent

The treaty that ended the War of 1812.

Hartford Convention

A meeting of Federalists in Hartford, Connecticut, where they considered amending the Constitution or seceding from the Union.

American System

A program consisting of protective tariffs on imports, improvements to the interstate world, and rechartering the National Bank in order to protect the growing American industry

Era of Good Feelings

A period of unity in the US after the War of 1812, with only one political party.

McCulloch V Maryland

A SC case that ruled that a state could not tax the National bank, which established a the precedent of national law over state law

Panic of 1819

Financial crisis that followed a period of American growth, inflation, and land speculation.

Treaty of Adams-Onis

Treaty in which the US acquired Florida from the Spanish.

Monroe Doctrine

A policy of mutual noninterference in the western hemisphere.

Missouri Compromise

Admitted Missouri as a slave state, created Maine as a free state, and drew a line across the 36*30 parallel.

Election of 1824 Turning Point

Citizens who could vote were now allowed to directly vote for their electors as opposed to congressmen choosing

Corrupt Bargain

Accusation that Clay supported JQA for the position of Secretary of State, which ultimately lead to JQA’s victory

Universal White Manhood Suffrage

Voting rights to all white males

Jacksonian Democracy

Replaced Jeffersonian republicanism.

Indian Removal Act

An act that demanded that the Natives resettled in Oklahoma which had been deemed Indian territory

Trail of Tears

Thousands of Cherokees were forced to walk to Oklahoma under the supervision of the US army

Nullification Crisis

The argument that a state could “Nullify” a federal law that they say as unfit