Citrus 5 us history

Know about manufacturing – why are the textile mills built up north, who is

responsible for the first mills in America

• Eli Whitney’s major invention – Cotton Gin. WHY IMPORTANT?

• Importance of steam power and canal building i.e. the Eerie Canal (why build

this, what was its purpose)

• Be able to explain the landscape of the South in the early 18th century – what was

the economy like. Was this a densely populated area or was it more rural?

• Why did Henry Clay support the American System? What are the components of

the American System?

• Understand what contributed to the increase of slavery in the American South.

• Know about the tariff of Abominations – what was it, who benefits and who was

opposed? Why?

• Decision reached in McCulloch v. Maryland?

• Adams-Onis Treaty – what was the result of this?

• MISSOURI COMPROMISE – know all about this

• Monroe Doctrine – what is this, what does it do? Why is this significant?

• Terms: nationalism and sectionalism

• Election of 1824; “Corrupt Bargain” – who comes up with this term? What does it

mean? Adams v. Jackson, who won?

• Election of 1828; beginning the “Era of the Common Man”

• Spoils system – what is this, who started it and when?

• National Republicans → Whigs

• High tariffs – 1824, 1828 Tariff of Abominations, 1832

• Nullification Crisis: John C. Calhoun; nullification theory.

• Compromise Tariff of 1833 – stops nullification crisis, who proposed this?

• Jackson’s Bank War (killing of the bank; removal of federal deposits; pet banks)

• Indian Removal of 1830 and the Trail of Tears

• “Five civilized tribes”

• Problems of Van Buren’s Presidency

• Panic of 1837

• Election of 1840: Martin Van Buren vs. William Henry Harrison

• Death of Harrison; President John Tyler