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13 Cards in this Set
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Denmark Valley
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free black; led an aborted slave rebellion in Charleston in 1822
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John Calhoun
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secretly wrote a pamphlet known as The South Carolina Exposition in 1828; denounced the tariff as unjust and unconstitutional; bluntly proposed that states should nullify the tariff
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Nullify
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to declare null and void; nullifiers are also called "nullies"; used by states when they disagreed with federal tariffs or laws
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Compromise Tariff of 1833
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Henry Clay; called for the gradual reduction of the Tariff of 1832 by about 10% over 8 years; by 1842 the rates would be back at the level of 1816; ended the dispute over the Tariff of 1832 between the South and the White House; supported by South Carolina, but not other southern states
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Indian Removal Act
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1830; transplanted 100,000 Indians living east of the Mississippi to reservations west of the river; five civilized tribes; Black Hawk with Sauk and Fox resisted eviction; Trail of Tears
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Nicholas Biddle
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president of the Bank of the United States; held an immense and unconstitutional amount of power over the nation's financial affairs; dubbed "Czar Nicholas I"
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Bank War
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erupted in 1832; Daniel Webster and Henry Clay presented Congress with a bill to renew the bank's charter; Clay pushed to renew it to make it an issue in the next election; If Jackson signed off on it, he would alienate westerners, but vetoing it would alienate easterners; bill was vetoed; showed that the executive branch had more power than the judicial branch over the constitutionality of the bank
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"Pet banks"
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state institution; surplus federal funds used pet banks; chosen for pro-Jackson sympathies; flooded the country with paper money
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Whig Party
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conservatives who supported government programs, reforms and public schools; called for internal improvements like canals, railroads and telegraph lines; claimed to be defenders of the common man; declared the Democrats to be the party of corruption
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Panic of 1837
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caused by speculation prompted by a get rich scheme; "land office businesses" on borrowed capital; speculation spread to canals, roads, railroads and slaves; also caused by Jacksonian finance; GB investors calling in foreign loans were the beginning of the panic; caused banks to collapse, commodity prices to drop, sales of public and lots of jobs
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Stephen Austin
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given land from America in 1823; was to bring 300 American families into Texas; went to Mexico city in 1833 to negotiate slavery differences with the Mexican government; Santa Anna put him in jail for 8 months
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G. T. T.
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"Gone to Texas"; Stephen F. Austin, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Sam Houston
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Election of 1840
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demonstrated the triumph of a populist democratic style; resulted in the formation of a vigorous and durable two-party system; William Harrison beat Martin Van Buren; Whig; campaigned with log cabins and hard cider
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