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CHAPTER 7 NOTES
• After the Federalist Party collapsed, the nation
experienced a period of political harmony.
• The Monroe Doctrine declared that the United
States would defend the freedoms of other
nations
• The Adams-Onís Treaty gave East Florida to the
United States.
• The War of 1812 convince many older
Republicans to support a stronger federal
government
• Land speculation, inflation, and a full-scale
depression were caused by the decreased control
of banks by the federal government in 1837
• National pride and loyalty describes
nationalism.
• The Era of Good Feelings was a period of
political harmony.
• The United States did all of the following
during the First Seminole War seized Spanish
forts in East Florida, fought to stop American
Indian raids, executed two British officials.
• By 1819 most of Spain’s Latin American
colonies had launched revolutions.
• Sequoya worked to create a Cherokee writing
system.
• Osceola encouraged the Seminole to stay in
the Southeast.
• The Indian Removal Act provided for the
relocation of American Indian tribes east of
the Mississippi River to Indian Territory in
present-day Oklahoma
• Samuel Worcester aided the Cherokee by
helping them secure a printing press.
• President Jackson’s handpicked successor was
Martin Van Buren.
• The Whigs political party referred to Andrew
Jackson as “King Andrew”.
• Nicholas Biddle tightened credit to force a
financial crisis.
• “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” was a campaign
slogan used to promote the election of
William Henry Harrison
• William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia
just four weeks after taking office as
president.
• John Tyler was the vice president who became
president in 1829.
• During the early 1830s speculators bought
millions of acres of land in the Midwest