Key ideas/events

• American System
• Seminole Wars

  • Florida had been Spanish territory, was ceded to Great Britain, was returned to Spain in the Treaty of Paris (1783), and was given to Amer
  • Florida had been Spanish territory, was ceded to Great Britain, was returned to Spain in the Treaty of Paris (1783), and was given to America in 1819
  • White southerners grew frustrated with slaves escaping to Florida, where American Indians gave them protection
  • Southern whites performed raids into Florida against the Seminoles and other American Indians
  • Led to several Seminole Wars that pressured the Seminole to relocate to the West
• Spoils System


  • Andrew Jackson's method of turning over civil servant jobs to new government officials
  • "Rotation in office"
  • In general, officials were replaced by those loyal to the new administration, and they were not always the most qualified for the positions
• War of 1812


  causes: British impressment of American sailors, "War Hawk" support in Congress
• Non-Intercourse Act


  • opened trade to all nations except France and Britain
  • was eventually repealed, reversed the Embargo Act of 1807
• King Cotton in the Early 1800s


  cotton gin
• Population Growth and Change, early 1800s


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• Expansion of the Electorate (1810- 1828)


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• Slave Labor Roles

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• Adams-Onis Treaty


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• "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824


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• Transportation Revolution


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• Fletcher v. Peck


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• Trail of Tears


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• Panic of 1837 and Specie Circular


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• The Marshall Court


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• Embargo of 1807


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• Cult of Domesticity 


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• Lewis and Clark Expedition


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• U.S.-British Tension and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty


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• Louisiana Purchase


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• Old China Trade


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• Lowell System


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• Missouri Compromise


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• Webster-Hayne Debate


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• Agriculture in the Early 1800s


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• Judiciary Act of 1801


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• Tariff of 1832 and the Order of Nullification


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• "Tariff of Abominations"


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• Monroe Doctrine


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• Temperance Movement


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• Marbury v Madison


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• Dartmouth College v. Woodward


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• Abolitionism


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• McColloch v. Maryland


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• Gibbons v. Ogden


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• Whig Party 


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• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions


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• American System


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