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26 Cards in this Set
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Florida Purchase Treaty 1819
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Spain ceded FL and gave us shaky claims to Oregon and we in return gave them TX.
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Russo-American Treaty 1824
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the russian czar fixed his Alaskan boundary so that he had the panhandle of Alaska
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Peculiar Institution
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Slavery because it went against everything the US stood for, except we still did it.
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Protective Tariff
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the policy of preserving domestic producers or by placing barriers on imported goods through a high tariff. Started w. Clay's American system
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2nd Bank of the US - 1816
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coming from nationalist feelings after the war of 1812, later headed by Nicholas Biddle.
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McCulloch vs. Maryland
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tried to destroy the MD BUS by taxing its banknotes; declared unconst.; strengthened Fed. gov't and used loose construction.
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Tariff of 1816
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one of the first protective Tariffs that raised the tax to 20% on imports. Helped Eastern Manufacturing to flourish.
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Panic of 1819
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After the era of good feelings = panic. overspeculation of land, forclosure of farms, people put in debtor's prisons.
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Gibbons v. Ogden - 1824- the "steamboat case"
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NY tried to grant a private waterborne commerce monopoly = NO! only congress can control interstate commerce. Blow to state's rights.
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Bonus Bill 1817
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passed by congress to give states 1.5M for internal improvements, but VETOED by Madison who said states should do it themselves.
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Gibbons v. Ogden - 1824- the "steamboat case"
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NY tried to grant a private waterborne commerce monopoly = NO! only congress can control interstate commerce. Blow to state's rights.
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Battle of Horseshoe Bend 1814
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Led by Andrew Jackson - effectively crushed the creek indians and left the west open for safer settlment
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Fletcher v. Peck 1810
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Georgia gave 35 million acres of the MI territory to private speculators. Supreme Ct. decides the grant was a contract and said state cannot make contracts. Illustrated: pwer of supreme ct. to invalidate state laws inflicting with constitution.
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Land Speculators
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people that gambled on land and invested in it. real-estate like people that put money on acres and how they would be sold.
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Monroe Doctrine
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Pres. Monroe's attempt to stop unnecessecary alliances that would hamper US expansion and economy. 1823
a. no old world govs. could seize/acquire more land in the new world. b. warning against foreign monarchs getting up in our buisnass. |
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Dartmouth v. Woodward
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Dartmouth college had a charter during reign of king george and the state of NH wanted to revoke the charter = Marshall says that Dartmouth is "grandfathered in" by a state protecting it and cannot be dominated by it.
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Treaty of 1818
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Monroe and England neither brit nor US had to surrender = verified boundries of LA and permitted the US to share fisheries with Canada. Also a 10-year joint occupation of Oregon.
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Treaty of 1818
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Monroe and England neither brit nor US had to surrender = verified boundries of LA and permitted the US to share fisheries with Canada. Also a 10-year joint occupation of Oregon.
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the American System - 1824
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A new easy bank for all, protective tariff, and manufacturing.
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Tippecanoe
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Harrison's big time Victory in which he stormed Tecumseh's HQ and burned it to the ground. 1811 = a major indian defeat.
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USS Constitution/ Old Ironsides
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notable ship of war during 1812 that defeated the british for once b/c we had better ironsides and a better navy!
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Battle of the Thames 1813
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Tecumseh killed and the indian dream done with.
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Land Act of 1820
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gave the West who was forced to ally with other sections b/c it was weak and wanted chaper land = a buyer could by up to 80 acres of land at a min. of 1.25 an acre in cash.
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Wildcat Banks
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an uncontrolled speculative bank that issues notes w/out sufficient capital to back them up
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Tallmadge Agreement
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A cause of the MO compromise said that no more slaves can be brought to MO and the slave kids already there are free. the south saw this as a bigtime threat.
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Cohens v. VA
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right of the supreme court to review decisions of the state courts in all questions involving powers of the federal government.
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