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land acts of 1802 and 1820
eliminated the purchase of public land in the United States on credit. It also reduced the minimum size of the tract from 160 to 80 acres (647,000 to 324,000 m²). Additionally, the act required a down payment of $100 and reduced the price from $1.65 to $1.25 per acre ($408 to $309/km²). The land was located in the Northwest Territory and Missouri Territory
webster ashburton treaty
settled the dispute over the location of the Maine-New Brunswick border between the United States and Canada, then a colony of Britain. It also established the details of the border between Lake Superior and the Lake of the Woods, originally defined in the Treaty of Paris (1783); reaffirmed the location of the border (at the 49th parallel) in the westward frontier up to the Rocky Mountains, originally defined in the Treaty of 1818; called for a final end to the slave trade on the high seas, to be enforced by both signatories; and agreed on terms for shared use of the Great Lakes.
treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States[1][2] to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico, that ended the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession, in which Mexico ceded 1.36 million km² (525,000 square miles; 55%[3] of its pre-war territory, not including Texas) to the United States in exchange for US$15 million (equivalent to $313 million in 2006 dollars) and the ensured safety of pre-existing property rights of Mexican citizens in the transferred territories, the latter of which the United States in a significant number of cases failed to honor.[4][5][6] The United States also agreed to take over $3.25 million ($68 million in 2006 dollars) in debts Mexico owed to American citizens.
the admas onis treaty
spain ceded east FL to the u.s. renounced its claims to west FL and agreed to a southern border of the u.s. west of the mississippi, ran north along the sabine river, west along the red and arkansas rivers to the rocky mountains, following the 42nd parallel to the north pacific. texas was not part of the louisiana purchase, us was free to pursue oregon
monroe doctrine
unless americans were involved, u.s. policy was to abstain from european wars: that the american continets were not subjects for future colonization by any european power and that the us would constuct any attempt at european colonization in the new world as an unfriendly act
the american scholar
was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak as a result of his groundbreaking work Nature, published a year earlier in which he established a new way for America's historically-young society to look at the world. American culture was still heavily influenced by Europe 60 years after declaring independence, and Emerson was, for possibly the first time in the country's history, providing a roadmap on how to escape from underneath that veil and build a new, American cultural identity.
commonwealth vs. hunt
Mass. supreme judicial court ruled that labor unions were not illegal monopolies that restrained trade.
the alamo
army invaded texas and the texians retreated into an abandoned mission, the mexicans killed all
presidential precendents of Jackson Administration
Jackson's first administration was dominated by a conflict with his vice president, John C. Calhoun. Calhoun believed that a high tariff, or tax, on foreign goods hurt his home state of South Carolina. He argued that a state could declare null and void any federal law it believed violated the U.S. Constitution. Jackson disagreed. At a dinner, Jackson made a toast to Calhoun, saying, "Our Federal Union: It must be preserved." In Jackson's second term, he replaced Calhoun with Martin Van Buren.

In his second administration, Jackson took on the Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress in 1816. In 1832, Jackson vetoed a bill to renew the bank's charter. He called the bank a monopoly and said its power threatened the government and the people. "There are no necessary evils in government," said Jackson. "Its evils exist only in its abuses." In 1833, he took all federal money out of the bank's vaults and distributed the money to "pet banks," state banks run by his friends.
missouri compromise
a series of congessional agreements to resolve the crisis of missouri,stipulated that all the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave
horace mann
first secretary of massachusetts, and worked effectively for more and better equipped school houses, longer school years (until 16 years old), higher pay for teachers, and a wider curriculum.
william lloyd garrison
stong abolitioist and hepromoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
john deere
an American blacksmith and manufacturer who invented the first commercially successful steel plow
phineas t barnum
American showman remembered for hoaxes and for founding the circus
henry david thoreu
He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
ralph waldo emerson
leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s.
santa anna
mexican leader who wanted to invaded texas and Santa Anna marched north to bring Texas back under Mexican control. his forces killed 187-250 Texan defenders at the Battle of the Alamo
jim bowie
, Bowie joined the Texas militia, leading forces at the Battle of Concepcion and the Grass Fight. In January 1836, he arrived at the Alamo, where he commanded the volunteer forces until an illness left him bedridden. Bowie died with the other Alamo defenders on March 6
davey crockett
took part in the texas revoltion, surrendered and then was executed
samuel morse
telegraph, morse code
sam houston
emigration to Mexican Texas, where he soon became a leader of the Texas Revolution. He eventually supported annexation by the United States rather than seeking long term independence and expansion for Texas
frederick douglas
black abolistionist, borrowed a sailor
boat and papers, and escaped
nullification
Early proclamation by Southern States to declare null and void Federal laws within state boundaries, which were declared against their interests
trancendentlism
A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
slave narratives
literary form which grew out of the experience of enslaved Africans in Britain and its colonies. Some six thousand former slaves from North America (including Canada, the United States and the Caribbean) gave an account of their lives during the 18th and 19th centuries, with about 150 published as separate books or pamphlets
oneida beliefs
ny state, john humphrey, challlenged conventional nations of religion, property, gender roles, sex, dress, and motherhood. practiced communism, men performed kitchen duties all women married to all men and all men married to all women
shaker beliefs
ann lee was founder, banned marriage from men and women and seperated men from women. thrived from adopting children and pooled land to create villages
underground rail road
organized network of safehouses owned by white abolitionists who spirited blacks to freedom in the north and canada with the help of harriet tubman and josiah henson
manifest destiny
gained land from mexico and Canada.
beleif that people that came to this country had a destiny to bring culture to vast land (atlantic to pacific)
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