APUSH Unit Four

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    The Second Great Awakening

    • religious revival emphasizing individual salvation and reform in multiple aspects of society
    • women's suffrage, abolitionism, hospital and asylum reform, prison reform, education reform, temperance movement, etc.
  • Revolution of 1800

    • Jefferson won the election and became President
    • transfer of power from Federalist to Democratic-Republican party
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    Jefferson's Presidency

    • Marbury vs. Madison
    • Barbary Pirates
    • Haitian Revolution
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    Barbary Pirates

    • conflict with European pirates and American ships
    • Washington paid tribute
    • Jefferson went to War with them
  • Louisiana Purchase

    • Jefferson purchased the large and mostly unexplored territory with Mississippi River from France (Napoleon)
  • Marbury vs. Madison

    • supreme court case when Marshall was the deciding factor of whether Jefferson broke the law in refusing to carry out
  • Embargo Act of 1807

    • Jefferson enacted this to prevent further conflict between American and European ships
    • prohibited all American exports to other countries
    • however it made it very hard for farmers and other U.S. merchants
  • Old Ironsides

    • an American ship that defeated and sank a British ship
    • raised morale among Americans during the War of 1812
  • End of Enslaved Importation

    • enslaved laborers were no longer allowed to be imported to the U.S.
  • Nonintercourse Act of 1809

    • passed by Madison
    • allowed Americans to trade with all nations except for Britain and France
  • Napoleon's Deception

    • Napoleon stated that he would obey U.S. neutrality policies
    • U.S. embargoed Britain to trade with the French
    • Napoleon backed out of the promise
  • Macon's Bill No. 2

    • restored trade relationship with Britain and France
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    Tecumseh's War

    • Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, and his confederacy of Native American tribes fought against the U.S. for territory in America
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    War of 1812

    • conflict between U.S. and Britain over maritime rights, trade restrictions, and British aid to Native Americans
  • Chesapeake Campaign

    • British army marched upon and set fire to the White House and the Capitol
  • Harford Convention

    • before the War of 1812 ended, New England states held a meeting to decide whether or not to secede from the U.S. due to their opposition to the war
    • this plan did not procede
  • Treaty of Ghent

    • formed in Belgium to declare the end of the War of 1812
    • however it did not mention an end to conflict with American and European ships
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    Era of Good Feelings

    • when only the Democratic-Republican party was in power and a lot was accomplished through unity and harmony
    • also a lot of conflict during this time
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    Antebellum Period

    • reformers dedicated themselves to causes such as tax-supported public schools, improved treatment of mentally ill, controlling/abolishing sale of alcohol, equal rights for women, and abolishing enslavement
  • Tariff of 1816

    • tariff placed on foreign goods in order to ensure prosperity of American products
  • The Second Bank of the United States

    • second national bank founded according to the suggestion of Henry Clay in his American system
  • The Panic of 1819

    • the Era of Good Feelings ended due to failure by the Second Bank of the United States
    • rates of unemployment, bankruptcies, and imprisonment for debt increased
  • Florida Purchase Treaty

    • Spain sold Florida and Oregon to the U.S.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    • Missouri admitted as a slave state
    • Maine admitted as a free state
    • a line was drawn for where slave states and free states would be developed
  • Veto of Nationally Funded Roads and Canals

    • Monroe vetoed the national funding of the Cumberland Road
    • it was built anyway, without national funding
  • Denmark Vesey

    • an enslaved laborer who purchased his freedom
    • organized a group to escape to Haiti from South Carolina
    • he co-founded the African Episcopal Church
    • led a revolt but were betrayed by two enslaved men
    • many rounded up and killed
    • he was killed
  • The Monroe Doctrine

    • announced that European powers should not interfere with development in the Americas
  • Election of 1824

    • 4 Democratic-Republican candidates campaigned for presidency
    • Clay used influence to help John Quincy Adams
    • Jackson accused Clay of illegal political maneuvers
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    Temperance Movement

    • an effort to avoid alcohol as much as possible
  • Tariff of 1828

    • nicknamed the Tariff of Abominations
    • a tax that significantly raised the price of imported manufactured goods to protect Northern American industries
    • unpopular in the South because they relied a lot on imported goods
  • Veto of Nationally Funded Roads and Canals

    • Jackson vetoed the national funding of the Maysville Road
    • it was built anyway, without national funding
  • Indian Removal Act

    • Jackson's forced resettlement of many thousands of Native Americans from the East to the West
    • Trail of Tears resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 Cherokees
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    • a group organized by preacher Nat Turner marched and killed about 65 White people
    • they spared White people who had been kind to them
    • resulted in the killing of over 100 Black people due to White retaliation
    • Nat Turner eventually found and killed
  • Tariff of 1832

    • a tariff that aimed to lower the taxes of the Tariff of 1828
    • however it still maintained high taxes on imported goods
  • Nullification Crisis

    • John C. Calhoun stated that South Carolina would not adhere to the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
    • Jackson told to the Secretary of War to prepare for war
    • the troops never marched because the tariffs were lowered and Calhoun refrained from nullifying
  • Amistad

    • a Spanish ship that enslaved laborers took control of
    • resulted in a major U.S. legal battle
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    • led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    • writing of the Declaration of Sentiments
    • discussion of women's rights