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56 Cards in this Set
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James Monroe's Secretary of State
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John Q. Adams
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National republican in the election of 1828.
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John Q. Adams
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Supported the protective tariff, federally funded improvements, the abolishment of slavery, national university, and the bank of the U.S.
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John Q. Adams
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First transcontinental treaty that stretched the boundary of the U.S. from the sabine river to the 42nd parallel.
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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Invented by Eli Whitney
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Cotton Gin
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Period of time between 1814-1824 immediately following the war. Sense of unity, absence of competing political parties, a time of economic growth and westward expansion.
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The Era of good feelings
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A time when state banks operated on loose open policies and land was bought on credit. Federal banks called in loans and foreclosed on mortgages.
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Panic of 1819
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Henry Clay proposed the establishment of the 36/30 line at the southern boundary of MO in which the states in the North did not have slaves and the states in the south had slaves. MO could be admitted as a slave state.
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The Missouri Compromise
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Amendment attached to the Missouri Bill in the House of Reps. that would require the gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri. Passed in the House, but failed in the senate.
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Tallmadge amendment
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Federal court would not allow Maryland to pass a law to tax the branch of the U.S. bank in Maryland.
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McCullough vs. Maryland
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Federal court ruled that the federal govt could not tax commerce between the states (interstate commerce)
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Gibbons vs. Ogden
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A statement that told the Europeans that the American continents would no longer be considered a subject for future colonization.
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The Monroe Doctrine
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The Election of 1824 in which no candidate obtained the simple majority. Henry Clay backs out and gave his votes to John Q. Adams, therefore, making Clay the secretary of state under Adams.
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The corrupt bargain
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Election between John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson in which Jackson wins the majority.
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Election of 1828
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Wanted to expand the right to vote to ALL adult white males and remove the last native americans east of the Mississipi.
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Jacksonian Democracy
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A system in which the power and office was given to your political allies.
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Spoil System
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The involvement of John Eaton, under Jackson, with Peggy O'Neale, who was married. Calhoun and the Washington Elite will have nothing to do with her after their marriage. Jackson will fire all of his cabinet members.
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The Eaton Affair
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The dilemma in South Carolina that was against the new tariff in 1832. South Carolina begins a nullification Congress and votes down the tariff.
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The nullification crisis
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Systematic plan to liquidate the indian reservations by state legislatures. Marshall court rules in favor of the indians; however, they end up selling themselves out to the Jackson administration.
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The indian removal
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President of the 2nd Bank of the U.S.
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Nicholas Biddle
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Jackson removes federal funds and put them in state banks.
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Pet Banks
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Most came from the northeast, they were merchants, educators, manufacturers, and wealthy plantation owners. Stressed what was good for the community not just the individual.
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Whigs
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Part of the women's rights movement for the abolishment of slavery
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Angelina Grimke
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Established in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York where the declaration of sentiments and resolutions was signed by 68 women and 32 men.
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Seneca Falls Convention
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An early attempt to relocate free blacks back to Africa
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American colonization society
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Founder and famous writer of the "Liberator". Wanted immediate emancipation without compensation.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Written by William Lloyd Garrison
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The Liberator
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Escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1847. He was born to a slave mother by her owner. He later began the "North Star" paper.
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Frederick Douglass
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Developed in response to the antislavery agitation. Slavery was now defended as a positive good rather than a necessary evil.
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The peculiar institution
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System of routes and safe houses that stretched all the way through Pennsylvania
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Underground railroad
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Devoted her life to freeing slaves.
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Harriet Tubman
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Slave religion was also known as "The invisible institution" because of these meetings.
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Steal-away meetings
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Several thousand Cherokees die on the trail to the indian territory due to harsh conditions.
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Trail of tears
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Andrew Jackson used his presidency power to fight and ultimately destroy the 2nd bank of the U.S.
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The bank war
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The supposed right of any state to declare a federal law inoperative within it's boundaries.
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Nullification
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an executive order issued by Andrew Jackson that required purchasers of public land to pay in gold or silver coin rather than paper money
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specie circular
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refers to the slave-holding states between 1830-1860 when slave labor and cotton production dominated the economies of the southern states.
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Old South
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Series of evangelical protestant revivals that swept over America in the early nineteenth century
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Second Great Awakening
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Moderation or abstention in the use of alcoholic beverages.
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American Temperance Movement
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term used by historians to describe the dominant gender role for white women in the antebellum period. Stressed the virtue of women as guardians of the home.
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Cult of Domesticity
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America's first antislavery political party. Formed in 1840
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The liberty party
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A religious group, formally known as the United Society of Believers, that advocated strict celibacy, gender equality, and communal ownership
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Shakers
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A national economic strategy championed by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay. Stressed high tariffs and internal improvements
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American System
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The most spectacular engineering achievement of the young republic. Reduced the cost of moving goods from Buffalo to Albany
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Erie Canal
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The first railroad line that started in the 1830.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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An american version of romanticism and idealist thought that emerged in Europe in the early 19th century.
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Transcendentalism
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Author of "Self Reliance" in 1841
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Author of "Resistance to civil govt" and "Walden"
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Henry David Thoreau
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Founder of New Harmony, IN
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Robert Owen
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Founded by Robert Owen. Community condemned private property, organized religion, and the state of marriage.
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New Harmony, IN
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Founded by George Ripley. Community believed in cooperation rather than competition and did not have to give up all private property.
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Brookfarm, MA
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Founded by John H. Noyes in upstate New York. Strived for human perfection. Had complexed marriages and supervised procreation.
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Oneida
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Established proffesional revivalism with protracted meetings, and the anxious bench. Allow women to participate.
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Charles G. Finney
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Published the Revival lectures in 1834 and became the president of Oberlan College.
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Charles G. Finney
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Education reformer to establish the first state board of education
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Horace Mann
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Set up mental reform to establish mental asylums for the mentally handicap
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Dorothea Dix
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