Key Events & Concepts in American History (1800-1860): Terms & Definitions, Quizzes of United States History

Download Key Events & Concepts in American History (1800-1860): Terms & Definitions and more Quizzes United States History in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Mid-Atlantic DEFINITION 1 Most ethnically mixed region and it had a larger merchant and artisan class TERM 2 South DEFINITION 2 Agriculture was the main industry and the economy was based on this. The main crops were tobacco and rice TERM 3 West DEFINITION 3 Fastest growing region when it came to population TERM 4 Fugitive Slave Law DEFINITION 4 required judges to award possession of a runaway slave on a formal request by the master or his representative TERM 5 First Amendment DEFINITION 5 safeguards the most fundamental freedoms of expression: religion, speech, press, and political activity TERM 6 Second Amendment DEFINITION 6 The right to bear arms TERM 7 XYZ Affairs DEFINITION 7 The result of a peace commission John Adams sent to France to avoid war with France. Through three unnamed agent talks were to begin after the French foreign minister Charles de Talleyrand, received $250,000 and France obtained $12 million loan TERM 8 Alien and Sedition Acts DEFINITION 8 were designed to prevent wartime espionage and sabotage. These laws were mostly aimed at immigrants. TERM 9 Treaty of San lldelfonso DEFINITION 9 in 1800 Spain returned the Louisiana territory to France TERM 10 Louisiana Purchase DEFINITION 10 1803 during the Thomas Jefferson administration, the United States virtually doubled in territory, 820,000 square miles