History FInal - Nationalism and Sectionalism

Rush-Bagot Treaty, Convention of 1818

Agreements between the United States and Britain that limited naval forces on the Great Lakes and established the U.S.-Canada border at the 49th parallel.

Adams-Onis Treaty

1819 treaty in which Spain gave Florida to the United States and defined the boundary of the Louisiana Territory.

Monroe Doctrine

1823 policy declaring that European nations should not establish new colonies or interfere in the Americas.

Westward Expansion

Movement of American settlers into lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Second Bank of the United States

National bank chartered in 1816 to regulate currency and stabilize the economy.

Sectionalism

Loyalty to one's region rather than to the nation as a whole.

John Quincy Adams

Secretary of State who helped create the Monroe Doctrine and later became the sixth president of the United States.

Henry Clay

Influential congressman known for the American System and the Missouri Compromise.

Missouri Compromise

1820 agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery north of latitude 36°30′ in the Louisiana Territory.