King Cotton & Monroe's Administration Vocab

Cash crop

a crop grown for sale

Discrimination

a policy or practice that denies equal rights to a certain group of people

Cottonocracy

wealthy families who owned 50+ enslaved workers (>1%)

Plain folk

white southerners who lived on small family owned farms

Slave codes

Southern laws passed to keep African Americans from running away/rebelling

Era of Good Feelings

Time when American Nationalism and pride were extremely high (1812-1815)

Northwest Ordinance 1787

a law which provided a basis for governing the Northwest territory

Domestic issue

Issues taking place within the United States

Foreign issue

Issues involving America’s relationship with foreign nations

War of 1812

A war between the US and Great Britain that lasted from 1812-1815

Cede

Formally give up territory and power

36 (degree symbol) 30 (degree symbol)

Latitudinal line to separate free and slave states in Louisiana purchase

James Monroe

President during Missouri compromise and Monroe Doctrine

McCulloch v Maryland

Congress could create federal bank, and states couldn’t tax federal government

Tariff of 1816

A protective tariff established by Congress to encourage Americans to buy goods made in the US

Capital

money or wealth used to invest in busine

Labor Union

an organization of workers

Nativist

A person who favors native born inhabitants over immigrants

Cotton Gin

a machine invented in 1793 to separate the cotton fiber from its hard shell

Nationalism

loyalty and devotion to one’s nation

Henry Clay

in the house of reps, leading economic nationalism;national bank +tariff, helped craft the Missouri compromise— balance rights and slave states

American System

Henry Clay’s federal program designed to stimulate the economy with internal improvements and to create a self-sufficant national

John Quincy Adams

Helped negotiate the treaty of Ghent fought for the abolition of slavery and the improvement of the arts and sciences

Adams-Onis Treaty

an 1819 treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to the US

Monroe Doctrine

a foreign policy doctrine set forth by president Monroe that discouraged European invention in the Western Hemisphere

Missouri Compromise

Agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase