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Andrew Jackson
An American lawyer, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
War of 1812
A war between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France
Embargo Act
Closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain
Macon's Bill No. 2
Intended to motivate Great Britain and France to stop seizing American ships, cargoes, and crews during the Napoleonic Wars
War Hawks
Someone who favors war or continuing to escalate an existing conflict as opposed to other solutions
Immigration
________- Irish + Germans filling eastern cities (preparation for Industrial Revolution)
Impressment
The act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service
Self-made
Poverty → Southern planter aristocrat
Battle of New Orleans
National fame
1828
Elected President
Age of Jackson
Veto, Native American removal, Bank War
Battle of the Thames
Death of Tecumseh
Treaty of Ghent
Ended war w/ draw
Jefferson
Congress cut off trade w/ ALL foreign nations
West
Favored war w/ Britain
Impressment
Violated sovereignty + dignity
Tecumseh + the Prophet
Confederacy of Native Americans to stop white migration
William Henry Harrison + Oliver Hazard Perry
Moved troops into Canada
1813
Killed Tecumseh → Ended confederacy of Native Americans
Britain
Invade US through Lake Champlain → Threatened NYC + New England
1797
Launched
1814
Star-Spangled Banner
1845
Blight destroyed potato crop in Ireland
1817-1825
Constructed Erie Canal
Mike Fink
Flatboat man + folk hero
1789
Secretly migrated to US
1790
1st American textile mill
1793
Invented cotton gin
1835
Telegraph + Morse code
Electromagnetism
Send messages over continuous wire
1811
Fur trading post @ mouth of Columbia River
1830
Indian Removal Act
1890
Placed ALL Native Americans on reservations
War of 1812
USs lack of preparedness + unity
Immigration
Irish + Germans filling eastern cities (preparation for Industrial Revolution)
Battle of the Thames
Also known as the Battle of Moraviantown; an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies
Thomas MacDonough
An early-19th-century Irish-American naval officer noted for his roles in the first Barbary War and the War of 1812
USS Constitution
Also known as Old Ironsides; a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy
Francis Scott Key
An American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Battle of New Orleans
Fought on January 8, 1815 between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans
Hartford Convention
A series of meetings from December 15, 1814 to January 5, 1815, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising
Irish Potato Famine
A period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1849
Canal Mania
The period of intense canal building in England and Wales between the 1790s and 1810s
New York City
The capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790
Samuel Slater
An early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System"
Eli Whitney
An American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South
Railroads
Opened the way for the settlement of the West, provided new economic opportunities, stimulated the development of town and communities, and generally tied the country together
Samuel F.B. Morse
Contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
John Jacob Astor
An American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, and lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War
American Indian Removal
Authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
