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- Battle of Thames
- The redcoats were overtaken by General Harrison's army
- Canning Proposition
- A haughty British foreign secretary approached the American minister with a proposition. The American minister, lacking instructions, referred the scheme to his superiors in Washington.
- The Constitution
- "Old ironsides." These American ships had thicker sides, heavier firepower, and larger crews
- Thomas Macdonough
- Commanded the weaker American fleet and challenged the British. He made the British army retreat, saving at least New York from conquest
- Hartford Convention
- Demanded money from Washington to compensate for loss. Proposed constitutional amendments requiring 2/3 vote in Congress by embargo act. Got rid of 3/5 compromise. One term per state
- Monroe Doctrine
- Said that no more colonization in the Americas and nonintervention. Defend ourselves
- John Marshall
- Agressive chief justice. One of his most important decisions bolstered the power of the federal government at the expense of the states
- Henry Clay
- High living colleague of John Quincy Adams. Deplored by JQA
- "Blue Light" Federalists
- treacherous New Englanders who supposedly flashed lanterns on the shore so that blockading British cruisers would be alerted to the attempted escape of American ships
- Daniel Webster
- One of Dartmouth college's most famous alumni. Employed as a counsel. Original charter must stand
- Andrew Jackson
- Just crushed the southwest Indians at the Battle of Horse shoe Bend, was placed in command. Became a national hero and everyone said he saved New Orleans
- Treaty of 1819
- Treaty between the United States and Spain in which Spain ceded control of Florida to the U.S., who in turn surrendered their claims to Texas
- John Quincy Adams
- Son of John Adams. deplored the late-hour card playing of his high-living colleague Henry Clay
- Rush-Bagot Agreement
- Between US and Britain. Severely limited naval armament on the lakes
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Involved an attempt by the state of Maryland to destroy a branch of a Bank of the US by imposing a tax on its noted. Declared the bank constitutional by invoking the Hamiltonian doctrine of implied powers
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- An American naval officer. Managed to build a fleet of green timbered ships on the shores of Lake Erie
- Fort Michilmackinac
- Commanded the upper Great lakes and Indian inhabited men to the south and west. Captured by British and Canadians
- Panic of 1819
- Created problems in the political and social world. The Bank of the US had become deeply included in a popular type of outdoor gambling
- Russo-American Treaty of 1824
- Defined Russian claims to the Oregon territory, fixing the southernmost border of present-day Alaska.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- He and Washington Irving attained international recognition...
- James Monroe
- Was nominated for the presidency in 1815 by the Republicans
- The American System
- Henry Clay established a scheme in 1824 known as this. It had 3 pain parts: a strong banking system, high protective tariff, and improved transportation. This made people cry for better menans of transportation
- Fletcher v. Peck
- Swayed by bribery, granted 35 mil. Acres in the Yazoo River country. The next legislature cancelled
- Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- The college had been granted a charder by King George II in 1769, but the democratic New Hampshire state legislature had seen fit to change it
- Treaty of 1818
- A pact with Britain that permitted Americans to share the coveted Newfoundland fisheries with their Canadian cousins. fixed the vague northern limits of Louisiana along the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains
- Era of Good Feelings
- Considerable tranquility and prosperity did in face smile upon the early years of Monroe, but the period is a troubled one. The acute issues of the tariff, the bank, the internal improvements, and the sale of the public lands
- Isaac Brooke
- British general. Operated some operations. Led the war of 1812
- Tallmadge Amendment
- Free state. Emancipate slaves
- Virginia Dynasty
- By 1814 a Virginian had been president for all but 4 years in the Republic's quarter-century life
- Tariff of 1816
- A nationalist Congress, out-federizing the old Federalists responded with this. This was instituted primarily for protection, not revenue. 20-25% tax on imported goods
- Battle of New Orleans
- Americans = 7 thousand men. Britain = 8 thousand all trained veterans. Britain launched a frontal attack which was a big mistake
- Loose construction
- Marshall in this case gave the doctine of __ __ its most famous formulation
- Missouri Compromise
- Gained entry as a slave state. Maine entered as a free state. In future, no slave state above 36 30'
- Washington Irving
- Him and James Fenimore Cooper attained international recognition in the 1820s, significantly as the nations first writers of importance to use American scenes and themes
- Cohens v. Virginia
- Gave Marshall one of his greatest opportunities to defend the federal power. The Cohens found guilty by the Virginia Courts of illegally selling lottery tickets