American History Unit 5 Vocab
Across
- 1. In 1816, the Democratic-Republicans in Congress voted in another charter.
- 3. 1825-1829 6th President of the United State; author to the Monroe Doctrine.
- 7. 1832 John C Calhoun claimed that states should have the right to nullify or refuse to accept a federal law if it wasn’t in the states best interest.
- 9. 1838-1839 The forced removal ofabout 15,000 Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole Indians west, a quarter of them dies along the way. They did not have time to prepare for the journey.
- 12. 1823 - President Monroe issued the doctrine stating that Europe could no longer colonize North or South America, written by John Quincy Adams.
- 14. A rivalry based on the special interests of different areas (North vs South).
- 16. To withdraw of break away from a nation of organization: when southern leave the United States during the Civil War.
- 17. 1817-1825 5th President of the United States, Democratic-Republican, wanted a strong federal government.
- 18. A manager of the National Bank named Mcculloch sued the state of Maryland for being forced to pay taxes. Mcculloch won because a state cannot tax a federal bank.
- 19. 1830 Law that allowed the Federal gov’t to pay Native Americans to move west.
- 20. “Great Compromiser” - developed the American System, Missouri Compromise, fixed the Nullification Crisis, predicted the annexation of Texas would cause war, and the Compromise of 1850.
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- 2. 1819 - treaty that gave control of Spanish Florida to the United States as well as claims to the Oregon Country. The US gives up parts of Spanish Texas.
- 4. 1821-1825 a huge canal system that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, 363 miles, cuts the price of shipping goods.
- 5. The time period immediately after the War of 1812 - Won the battle of New Orleans, only one political party.
- 6. 1820 - A deal made in Congress to allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and it created Maine as a free state to keep an equal balance of free and slave states. It also established the line of latitude where anything above the line would be a free state and everything below, a slave state.
- 8. Tariff passed in 1828 designed to protect industry in the northern states, the southern states called it this because they disliked them.
- 10. Had support of Southern states, vice-president to Jackson, led South Carolina to threat secession during the Nullification Crisis, loved state rights over federal government rights
- 11. tax on imported goods, made to protect American industry or to collect tax money off foreign goods sold in the states.
- 13. 1829-1837 Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812), took Florida from Spain, 7th President of the US, democrat, pushed for the removal of Indians off their netive land, killed the national bank, hired unqualified friend for gov’t jobs, vetoed most bills, threatened to kill his vice-president, ignored other branches of government, did what he wanted, expanded voting rights.
- 15. 1830 Debate that started as an issue over land sales and uncovers a huge issue that shows th US is splitting apart -South (Robert Hayne): “states should have power to get rid of federal laws.” -North (Daniel Webster): “Constitution is the supreme law of the land and US should be one unified nation.”