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 * 46. Treaty of Ghent:** was the [|peace treaty] that ended the [|War of 1812] between the [|United States of America] and the [|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]. The treaty largely restored relations between the two nations**.** Because of the era's slow communications, it took weeks for news of the peace treaty to reach the United States, and the [|Battle of New Orleans] was fought after it was signed.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent M. Lankford**


 * 47. Tariff of 1816:** In 1816, Congress passed the nation's first protective tariff. It was designed to protect textile factories, because the British were dumping cloth in the United States at bargain prices in their attempt to regain markets they had lost during the War of 1812.
 * http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tariff M. Lankford**


 * 48. Rush-Bagot Treaty:** was a [|treaty] between the [|United States] and [|Britain] ratified by the United States Senate on April 16, 1818. The treaty provided for a large demilitarization of the [|Great Lakes] and [|Lake Champlain], where many British naval arrangements and forts still remained.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%E2%80%93Bagot_Treaty M. Lankford**

In 1819 a financial panic swept across the country. The growth in trade that followed the War of 1812 came to an abrupt halt. Unemployment mounted, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and agricultural prices fell by half. Investment in western lands collapsed. The panic was frightening in its scope and impact. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=574 M. Lankford
 * 49. Panic of 1819:**


 * 50. Seminole War:** Following the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain, American slave owners came to Florida in search of runaway African slaves and Indians. These Indians, known as the Seminole, and the runaway slaves had been trading weapons with the British throughout the early 1800s and supported Britain during the War of 1812. From 1817-1818, the United States Army invaded Spanish Florida and fought against the Seminole and their African American allies. Collectively, these battles came to be known as the First Seminole War.
 * http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/sem_war/sem_war1.htm M. Lankford**


 * 51. Transcontinental Treaty:** also called Adams-onís Treaty, or Purchase Of Florida, accord between the United States and Spain that divided their North American claims along a line from the southeastern corner of what is now Louisiana, north and west to what is now Wyoming, thence west to the Pacific. Thus Spain ceded Florida and renounced the Oregon Country in exchange for recognition of Spanish sovereignty over Texas.
 * The Americas Book M.Lankford**


 * 52. Monroe Doctrine:** was first set out in a speech by President [|James Monroe] on December 2, 1823. The ideas are grounded in much earlier thinking, such as the "Farewell Address" of George Washington, in which he inveyed against close political association with European states, and in the first inaugural address of [|Thomas Jefferson]. The idea of an exceptional status for the United States and for the Western Hemisphere had been launched before Monroe's address to Congress.
 * http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h255.html M. Lankford**


 * 53. Era of Good Feelings:** The years following* the end of the [|War of 1812] have been called the “era of good feelings” because of their apparent lack of partisan political strife. In the [|Election of 1816], [|James Monroe] decisively defeated the last of the [|Federalist] candidates. Monroe was overwhelmingly reelected in the [|Election of 1820] with no opposition whatsoever.
 * http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h43.html M. Lankford**


 * 54. Tallmadge Amendment:**  the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been fully [duly] convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five Years.
 * The Americas Book M. Lankford**

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 * 55. Missouri Compromise:** an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories
 * 56. Samuel Slater:** was an early [|American] [|industrialist] known as the "Father of the American [|Industrial Revolution]" or the "Father of the American Factory System" because he brought British textile technology to America. Slater established tenant farms and towns around his textile mills such as Slatersville, Rhode Island.

[|wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn] **M. Lankford**
 * 57. Robert Fulton:** American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)


 * 58. Eli Whitney:** was an American [|inventor] best known for inventing the [|cotton gin]. This was one of the key inventions of the [|Industrial Revolution] and shaped the economy of the [|antebellum South].[|[][|1][|]] Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of [|slavery in the United States]
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney M. Lankford**


 * 59. Lowell Massachusetts:** is known in as the birthplace of the [|industrial revolution] in the United States and many of the city's historic sites have been preserved by the [|National Park Service]
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell,_Massachusetts M. Lankford**


 * 60. Daniel Webster:** was a leading American [|statesman] and [|senator] during the nation's [|Antebellum Period]. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of [|New England] shipping interests. Webster's increasingly [|nationalistic] views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led him to become one of the most famous orators and influential [|Whig] leaders of the [|Second Party System].
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster M. Lankford**

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