APUSH Chapter 7

Judith Sargent Murray

Calls out that there is no difference in the brain from man to women

Dr. Benjamin Rushe

encouraged inoculation

Noah Webster

created the dictionary 

Washington Irving

popular writer who takes American folk tales and flushes them out into full books

Rip Van Winkle

falls asleep for 20 years

Ichabod Crame

character in horror story investigating murder

Mercy Otis Watten

first popular historian in US who glorified the AM Revolution

Enlightment

increased skepticism in religion

The Age of Reason

written by Thomas Paine attacking Christianity saying it makes no sense

Salvation

every person is capable of going to heaven

Handsome Lake 

convey many natives to convert

Eli Whitney

created the Cotton gin

Cotton gin

sped up the cultivation of crops

Interchangeable Parts

different parts to change in weapons

Robert Fulton

created the steamboat

Steam engine

build factories where you want because they don’t need water

Clermont

first steamboat

Turnpike Era

people want roads but they don’t have a lot of well made roads

Renaissance Man

what is Jefferson known as (average American)

Pennsylvania Avenue

Includes the white house and the treasury

Treasury building

part of executive branch but there is no judicial building

N. African (Tripoli)

privates attack vesicles and take good and people and demand ransom

Marbury vs. Madison

lawsuit which resulted in judicial review

John Marshall

federalist highly intelligent who helped during Marbury vs Madison

Samuel Chase

Jefferson tried to get him impeached

Napoleon

military dictator who took over much of Europe

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Inspired the Declaration of Independence and rebelled against Haiti (slave)

Louisiana Purchase 

doubles US domain for 15 million from the French

Lewis and Clark

successful expedition of the West

Sacajawea

goes with Lewis and Clark and creates a connection between herself and New tribes

Zebulon Pike

Goes to the northern edge of the county to Minnesota and goes west then south or colorado

Burr Conspiracy

Conflict between Hamilton and Burr

Essex Junto 

conspiracy of northern federalists

Floating Hells

British navy ships very dangerous

Chesapeake-Leopard incident  

Leopard sizes people from the Chesapeake 

Peachable Coercion

halted US. imports and exports to handle the foreign conflict

Embargo of 1807

TJ believes the US is self sufficient on its own and stops trading with others which makes the US enter a depression

Non-Intercourse Act

re establish trade with other nation other than France and British

Macon’s Bill #2

reestabish trade with France since they respect the US

William Henry Harrison

• Dispute the native and US conflict 

• Believes they need to follow American authority

Tecumseh and the Prophet

Leaders of a indian revolution

Battle of Tippecanoe

• decisive U.S. victory (Despite great losses)  led by William Henry Harrison against a confederation of Native American tribes led by Tecumseh's brother, the Prophet Tenskwatawa

Battle of Thames

• a decisive American victory in the War of 1812, resulting in the death of the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and the dissolution of his Native American confederacy.

Put-in-Bay

• allowing the US to control supply lines, repel invasions of the Northwest Territory, destroy the Tecumseh's Native American confederation, and provided a crucial morale boost after earlier American defeats

The First Lady Dolly

• has slaves work quickly to get stuff out as the capital is getting burned

Francis Scott Key 

created the Star Spangeled Banner

Andrew Jackson

he was sent to defend New Orleans

Battle of New Orleans

8 US dead and 7000 uk dead

Hartford Convention

Federalist think they can separate and create a new nation ends up bringing the party to an end

Treaty of Ghent 

• Negotiating a treasury to end it that gets finished before the battle of new orleans 

Rush-Bagot Agreement

Compromise with Canada to demilitarize the border

Factor System

US gov. tells American merchants to lower the cost to undermine Canadians and get the tribes to only buy from America

Great American Deserts

Bisons, natives, extreme weather

Era of Good Feelings

post war marked by temporary decline in partisan conflict and a surge of national pride

Monroe’s Goodwill Tour

visits every part of the country

John Quincy Adams

secretary of state under Monroe, becomes the POTUS

Seminole War

if any Indians attack them they go into Florida

Adam-Onis Treaty

Spain cedes Florida if we promise to have no interest in Texas

Panic of 1819

depression/huge crash in US economy

Bust

driven by human behavior that puts too much value or investment in but its not worth 

Missouri Compromise

admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation

Tallmadge Ammendment

gradual emancipation

Thomas Amendment

prohibited slavery expansion into the remaining LP territory north of the 36’ 30’ latitude lines

36’30’ line

bottom of Missouri/dragged across LT, above=free, below=slave

Inviolability of contracts

Marshall makes it clear that contracts are not easily dissolved

Fletcher v. Peak

invalidation of a state law as unconstitutional for the first time which involved Georgia sale of land to private developers through a corrupt legislative progress

McCullon v. Maryland

about the national bank, DC states Maryland hated the bank, not in the constitution so they tax it to lose power

Coehansons v. Virginia

Federal courts v. state. Marshall states that every citizen has the right to app ea state decision to federal court 

Gibbons v. Ogden

Federal vs state license where Marshall says federal license is valid

Cherokee 

have their own written language, conditions, and planters

Johnson v. McIntosh

do Indians have a right to their land, basic right of native and they can’t just kick them out —> Georgia doesn’t listen

Cherokee Nation V. Georgia 

Georgia tried to create deals with the tribes to get rid of them, case goes to SC saying they don’t have power to do that 

Worcester V. Georgia

the state of Georgia didn't have the right to enforce laws on Cherokee territory

Simone Bolivar

very active in encouraging Latin America to revolver against spain

Monroe Doctrine

warned the European affairs to not interfere in affairs occurring in the Western hemisphere

Clay’s American System

supporting the national bank, funding of internal improvements, protective tariffs

Coffin Hand Bill

Clay gets people to attack Jackson in the paper

Tariff of Abominations

Southern states hate it since it increases prices in materials

Rachel Jackson

accused of bigamy —.> social life is ruined, ends up dying later..

Bigamy

being married to two people at the same time

Age of the Common Man

Jackson is there for not the elites but for everyone

Property requirement

everyone hates and wants this requirement for voting to get repelled

Dorr Rebellion

demand their legislature to get rid of property requirement by legislature disagrees

Tocquevile

French foreign observer who wrote about the pro’s and con’s of the US 

The Second Party System

WHIGS and democrats are known as the

Spoils System

Jackson gives gov’t positions and jobs to loyalists of him

Theory of Nullification

Calhoun states that states have great power under the constitution, specifically they can determine whether laws are unconsitutional

Martin Van Buren

NY democrat, secretary of state, befriended the Eaton which made him become the POTUS

Kitchen Cabinet

Only pick people who he likes since they will always support what Jackson wants

Peggy Eaton Affair

accuse Eaton’s wife of being a mistress due to how quick they got married after the death of his past wife

Webster-Hayne Debate

States rights vs. national power whether congress has the right to slow down westward expansion

Nullification Crisis

based off of 1832 tariff where SC tries to nullify it and the Senate promises to lower taxes on them

Black Hawk War

Saux and Fox Indians are defeated and the US make him tour the country as a “war trophy”

Removal Act

congress sends people to speed up Indians moving West

Trail of Tears

because of the Indian removal Indians were forced to relocate to Oklahoma on a terrible passage.

Cheif Osceola

leader of the Seminoles but got captured after getting faked for a flag of truce

Nicholas Biddle

controller of the national bank in fear of losing it

Roger Taney

3rd secretary of treasure under Jackson who gets rid of the national bank

Taney Court

Taney becomes the new supreme justice after John Marshall

Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge

new idea of contracts; you can “break” the contracts since their not as binding