APUSH Vocab Unit 4

War Hawks

congressmen who pushed madison to declare war on britain, led to war of 1812

Henry Clay

the great compromiser who sucked at winning elections

John C. Calhoun

south carolina exposition and protest

Tecumseh

Shawnee leader and military strategist who organized a pan-Indian confederacy to resist American settler expansion into the Old Northwest

William Henry Harrison

9th prez, log cabin campaign

Battle of Tippencanoe

war of 1812 battle

John Marshall

chief justice of scotus

Hartford Convention

was a series of secret meetings held by New England Federalists in Hartford, Connecticut, from December 15, 1814, to January 5, 1815, during the War of 1812

Embargo act 1807

a law signed by President Thomas Jefferson that banned all American ships from sailing to foreign ports in an effort to force Britain and France to respect U.S. neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars

war of 1812

a military conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights, the impressment of American sailors, and British support for Native American resistance on the western frontier

battle of new orleans

the final major conflict of the War of 1812

treaty of ghent 1814

ended war of 1812

james monroe

5th pres- demo-repub

second bank of us

a federally chartered national bank established in 1816 with a 20-year charter to stabilize the post-War of 1812 economy, manage federal funds, and regulate state-chartered banks

robert fulton

built first steamboat

eli whitney

cotton gin inventor

samuel slater

brought industrial textile technology to the United States, earning the title "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"

lowell system

an early 19th-century labor and production model used in New England textile mills

mcculloch v maryland

defined the balance of power between the federal government and state governments, taxes on out of state banks

gibbons v ogden

New York state granted a monopoly to a private company (operated by Aaron Ogden) to run steamboats on the waters between New York and New Jersey.

monroe doctorine

the Western Hemisphere was closed to future European colonization and interference: non-colonization, non-intervention, seperate spheres

nativists

native born are kooler

know-nothing party

nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-catholic political movement

nat turner

an enslaved preacher in Southampton County, Virginia, led rebellion

slave codes

a series of colonial and state laws—beginning in the late 17th century—that legally defined enslaved people as chattel property, made slavery lifelong and hereditary, and stripped them of basic civil rights to enforce a rigid race-based social hierarchy

cyrus mccormick

john deere

indian removal act 1830

cherokee nation/worcester v. georgia

pet banks

erie canal

specie circular

panic of 1837

party nominating convention

john quincy adams

corrupt bargain

nullification crisis **

dorothea dix

susan b. anthony

elizabeth cady stanton

william lloyd garrison

horace mann

lyman beecher

henry david thoreau

ralph waldo emerson