Chapter 12 History
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- 1817 Agreement that limited naval power on the Great Lakes to the US and Canada only.
- Rush-Bagot Agreement
- Agreement between the US and Britain that settled fishing rights and established new North American borders.
- Convention of 1818
- Agreement in which Spain gave up all of Florida to the US in 1819?
- Adams-Otis Treaty
- President's statement in 1823 forbidding further colonization in the America's and declaring that any attempt by a foreign nation to coloize would be considered an act of hostility?
- Monroe Doctrine
- Belief that states have the right to disobey federal laws with which they disagree?
- nullification
- 1820 Agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state, and outlawed slavery in the northern states.
- Missouri Compromise
- Plan delveloped by Henry Clay for raising tariffs to pay for internal inprovements such as better roads and canals?
- American System
- First federal road project, construction of which began in 1815; from Maryland to West Virgina?
- Cumberland Road
- Canal that ran from Albany to Buffalo, NY?
- Erie Canal
- Meeting where a politcial party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidtaes; 1820?
- nominating convention
- Political party founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in 1828?
- Democratic Party
- Politician's practice of giving government jobs to their supporters?
- spoils system
- President Jackson's group of advisors; so called becasue they met in the White House kitchen?
- kitchen cabinet
- Nickname given to a new tariff by southerners who opposed it.
- Tariff of Abominations
- Belief that the power of the state government should be greater than that of the federal government?
- states' rights