APUSH Chapter 12 Matching People, Places, and Events

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Rush-Bagot agreement

1817 agreement that limited American and British naval forces on the Great Lakes

Missouri Compromise

Admitted one slave and one free state to the Union, and fixed the boundary between slave and free territories

Russo-American Treaty of 1824

Agreement between the United States and one of the European great powers that fixed the southern boundary of that nation's colony of Alaska

Treaty of Ghent

Agreement that simply stopped fighting and left most of the war issues unresolved

Stepehn Decatur

American naval hero of the War of 1812 who said, "...our country, right or wrong!"

John Marshall

Aristocratic Federalist jurist whose rulings bolstered national power against the states

George Canning

British foreign secretary whose proposal for a joint British-American declaration led to the unilaterally declared Monroe Doctrine

Henry Clay

Eloquent Kentucky spokesman for the "American System" and key architect of the Missouri Compromise in the U.S. Senate

Hartford Convention

Gathering of antiwar delegates in New England that ended up being accused of treason

Andrew Jackson

Military commander who exceeded his government's instructions but eventually won its support for his actions

John Quincy Adams

Nationalistic secretary of state who promoted american interests against Spain and Britain

Washington Irving

One of the first nationalistic American writers to achieve literary recognition in Europe

James Monroe

President whose popularity contributed to the Era of Good Feeling

Tsar Alexander I

Russian ruler whose mediation proposal led to negotiations ending the War of 1812

Daniel Webster

The leading voice promoting nationalism and greater federal power in the United States Senate during the 1820s


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