Era of Good Feelings & Age of Jackson

Adams-Onis Treaty

Agreement in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the United States

Monroe Doctrine

a statement of American policy warning European nations not to interfere with the Americas

sectionalism

Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures. This can lead to conflict.

Missouri Compromise

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and future states north of 36th parallel in the Louisiana Territory would be free states.

nominating conventions

An official public meeting of a political party to choose candidates for office

Jacksonian Democracy

the idea that the common people should control the government; a period of expanding democracy in the 1820s and 1830s

Democratic Party

A political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824.

Spoils System

practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs

Kitchen Cabinet

an informal group of Jackson's trusted advisers that sometimes met in the White House kitchen

John Quincy Adams

Secretary of State to James Monroe, he largely formulated the Monroe Doctrine. He was the sixth president of the United States.

Andrew Jackson

The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815).

John C. Calhoun

South Carolina Senator and Andrew Jackson's first vice president - advocate for state's rights and limited government