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30 Cards in this Set
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South Carolina Exposition
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Pamphlet written secretly by Calhoun that called on the states to nullify the federal tariff.
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Anti-Masonic
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Small, short lived third political party that originated a new method of nomoniating pres. canidates.
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N.E. statesman who defended 'liberty and the Union, now and forever, one and inseperable.'
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Webster
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Sky high protectionist measure backed by NE and hated by the S.
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Tariff of Abominations
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The pop. idea that public offices should be handed out on the basis of political support rather than qualifications.
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Spoils system
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The 'moneyed' monster that Clay tried to preserve and Jackson tried to destroy.
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US Bank
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Jackson's treasury department decree that required all public lands to be bought with 'hard' money.
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Specie Circuar
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The sorrowful path along which thousands of southeastern Indians were removed to Oklahoma.
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Trail of Tears
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Legislation which authorized the President to use the army and navy to collect tariffs if necessary.
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Force Bill
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System of keeping gov't funds in separate vaults, est. by Van Buren's 'divorce bill' in 1840
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Independent Treasury
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Whitney's invention- enhanced cotton production and invigorated slavery
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cotton gin
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Americans who protested and sometimes rioted against immigrants
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nationalists
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only major highway constructed by the fed. govt before the civil war
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Cumberland Road
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Fulton's invention that revolutionized river travel
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steamboat
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'clinton's big ditch' that helped trans. and economy from NYC over great lakes to Chicago
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Erie Canal
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Belief that God ordained US to occupy NA
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manifest destiny
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final compromise line that settled oregon boundary dispute
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49th parallel
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river that Mexico claimed as Tex-Mex boundary, crossed by Taylor's troops in 1846
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Nuecos (?)
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treaty that ended Mex War
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Controversial amendment, passed in house 'stead of senate, saying that slavery should be forbidden in terrs acquired from Mex
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Wilmot Provisio
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'new democracy' caused by
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increased stake in politics felt by ordinary cits
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These factors caused J. Quincy Adams' presidency to be a political failure
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anti-western land and Indian policies; stubborn and prickly personality; support for national roads, a national uni, astronomical observatory
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The nullification crisis in SC ended when
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henry Clay pushed through a compromise tariff that enabled SC to save face
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In the aftermath of the successful Texas Revolution...
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Texas petitioned to join the US but was refused admission.
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as late as 1850, over 1/2 of pop was...
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under age of 30
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American painter and inventor of national park system
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George Catlin
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Influx of new immigrants=
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anti-Catholicism
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Industrialization was late b/c
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lack of labor, capital, and consumers
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change in families in early 1800s was
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decline in average number of children
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1st major improvs in transportation system were
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steamboats and highways
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