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Democratic Republican party splits
Democrats: pro-Jackson

Whigs: anti-Jackson
Election of 1824: Corrupt Bargain
Dem Repub:

-John Quincy Adams
-Henry Clay (anti-Jackson)
-William Crawford
-Andrew Jackson

Clay used his influ to get Adams elected & in exchange appointed Sec. of State
John Adams as president
Internal improvements: Nt'l Univ., Planetarium, roads, etc.
Election of 1828
End of single party:

Jackson = DemRepub (eventual Democrat)

Adams =Nt'lRepub (eventual Whig)
Tariff-Nullification Crisis
Calhoun writes S.C. Exposition
SC refuse pay taxes
Tariff of 1828=Tariff of Abominations
Peggy Eaton Affair
aka: Pettycoat War

Mrs. Calhoun snubs Peggy Eaton (wife of Sec. of War)

drives Jackson and Calhoun appart
Pettycoat War
aka: Peggy Eaton Affair


Mrs. Calhoun snubs Peggy Eaton (wife of Sec. of War)

drives Jackson and Calhoun appart
Webster-Hayne Debate (1832)
Senator Hayne (SC) vs. Webster (northern advocate)

Webster puts Bill to limit western land sales; Hayne protests
Ordinance of Nullification
Calhoun *openly* refuses tariff
Force Bill
Jackson authorizes troops into SC to enforce tariff`
Election of 1836
Martin VanBuren = Democrat

wins against several Whig candidates
Panic of 1837
crop failures, land specualtion, wild cat banks, econ. trouble in Britain
Divorce Bill
VanBuren's Independent Treasury

divorces Federal $ from private enterprises

Repealed in 1840
Election of 1832
Jackson (D) --> Wins
Clay (Nt'l Republican)

BUS major issue
Tariff of Abominations
1828 Tariff Bill under Jackson
Maysville Road Veto
Jackson vetoed a bill to purchase stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company, which had been organized to construct a road linking Lexington and the Ohio River (KT) part of the national Cumberland Road system.
Cherokee Nation versus Georgia
GA state law try to push out Cherokee
John Ross (Cherokee leader) appeals to Congress, not Jackson
Jackson supports GA
Congress supports Jackson w/ Indian Removal Act
Compromise Tariff/Compromise of 1833
After Jackson's Force Bill/Ordinance of Nullification...

Clay's compromise that Jackson would lower the tariff gradually
Independent Treasury Act
aka Divorce Bill-divorced federal money from private enterprises

Van Buren's only accomplishment
later repealed by Congress
5 Civilized Tribes
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole
Whig Party evolved from
National Republican
Adams-Onis Treaty
US gets FL
Stephen Austin
led 300 American families into TX

outnumbered Mexicans 3:1
Mexican law
Outlaws slavery
Mandates Roman Catholicism
Closed border to US
Santa Anna abolishes local gov'ts
Sam Houston
leads TX rebellion

GAS (Goliad--Alamo--SanJacinto)
Goliad Massacre
Mex.army captures Goliad

STEP 1
Alamo
Mex. army takes TX fort

held out for 13 days

STEP 2
San Jacinto
Houston defeats Mex. during siesta

Santa Anna captured
agrees to release TX N. of Rio Grande
Lone Star Republic est.
President Polk
Elected 1844 on Expansionist Ticket`
Year of TX annexation
1845
John Slydell
Sent by Polk to Mex. to discuss purchase of Mex. southwest and settle TexMex border
General Zachary Taylor
crosses Nueces R. to Rio Grande

"Amer. blood spilled on Amer. soil"
Years of Mex-Amer War
1846-1848
Long term causes of Mex-Amer War
1. Manifest Destiny
2. Mex. refusal to sell western lands to US
Immediate causes of Mex-Amer War
1. TX annexation/border dispute
2. Polk's election
3. Amer blood spilled on Amer soil
(Mex vs. Taylor)
Buena Vista
Gen. Zachary Taylor defeats Santa Anna
Vera Cruz
Gen. Winfield Scott captures Vera Cruz and Mex. City
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Mex. recognizes Rio Grande border
Mex. Cession (CA, NV, UT) for $15 mil.
Mex. Cession
CA, NV, UT

parts of CO, AZ, NM
Wilmot Proviso
Mex. Cession = free states
Oregon Annexation
Democrats want 54^ 40'
Polk compromises w/ Brit: 49^
Ostend Manifesto
Ostend, Belgium

secret negotiations w/ Sp. to buy Cuba
Gadsden Purchase
Pres. Pierce buys southern AZ from Mex. for $10 mil. to build transcont. RR
Comp of 1820

aka

Missouri Comp (1821)
1. Missouri = slave state
2. Maine = free state
3. No slavery north of 36^ 30'
Great Comp of 1850
1. No slave trade in Washington DC
2. UT and NM -= pop. sov.
3. Fugitive Slave Law
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
1. South can claim runaways w/o trial by jury
2. bounty hunters
3. All must help catch slaves
Personal liberty laws
Northern states passed these in defiance of Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The Impending Crisis of the South
by Hinton Helper

slavery = economically harmful to S.
poor white farmers
William Garrison
The Liberator (Boston newspaper)
pro-emancipation
Frederick Douglas' newspaper
The North Star (Rochester)
Nat Turner
Slave revolt in VA
Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas
KN and NB = pop sov
broke MO Comp. of 1820
border ruffians
Civil War
Lawrence
pro-slavery faction burns Lawrence, an abolitionist town, in KN
Dred Scott versus Sandford
Chief Justice Roger Taney
1. Slaves = property so can't sue
2. Slaves not citizens so can't sue
3. GOV'T CAN'T REGULATE SLAVERY IN TERRITORIES
nullified MO Comp.
Chief Justice Roger Taney
Dred Scott ruling
John Brown
raid in KN
raid on Harper's Ferry to give slaves weapons but failed

martyr for abolitionist cause
Freeport Doctrine
Lincoln-Douglas debates

Pop sov. > Dred Scott decision that slavery cannot be excluded from territories

Douglas wins Senate seat
splits Northern/southern Democrats
Years of Civil War
1861-1865
McClellan's Peninsular Campaign
amphibious assualt towards Richmond
Stonewall Jackson
Confederate general in Bull Runs
Antietam
aka Sharpsburg, MARYLAND

Lee vs. McClellan

Union wins but does not finish off Lee
Emancipation Proclamation
Liberates slaves in rebelling states only
Border States
MO, KT, WV, MD, DE
Jeb Stuart
"eyes" of Lee in Gettysburg
Lee's goals @ Gettysburg
1. destroy Union
2. Threaten Washington to surrender
3. get Euro. aid
Gettysburg lasted ___ days
3
Pickett's Charge
during Gettysburg
Lee loses Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Rebels surrender to grant on July 4th in Mississippi
Immediate results of Civil War (3)
1. Northern Republicans supreme
2. End of Southern Cotton kingdom
3. Rise of industrialization over agriculture
Years of Reconstruction
1865-1877
The Proclamation of Pardon and Reconstruction
aka Lincoln's 10% Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Radical Repub plan

50%+ take oath
Ironclad oath-deny disloyalty completely

Lincoln pocket vetoes it
Lincoln's VP that takes over
Andrew Johnson
Johnson's Plan
1. 10%
2. states must ratify 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery)
3.declare secession and slavery illegal in state const.
14th Amendment
1. Ex-slaves are citizens
2. = protection under law
Military Reconstruction Act
1. 5 military districts
2. martial law
3. majority must take ironclad oath
4. new state Const. incl. 14th Amendment and black suffrage
Samuel Chase
Supreme Court Chief Justice approves Mil. Reconst.
Army Act
Limits Pres.' rights over army
Tenure of Office Act
Pres. cannot fire cabinet w/o Senate approval
Johnson is impeached b/c
Fires Rad Repub Sec of War Edward Stanton

Violates Tenure of Office Act

NOT CONVICTED
Scalawags
Southern Republicans
Carpet Baggers
Northerners who went South
business investors
teachers
missionaries
Black Codes
1. Curfews
2. Sharecropping
3. Can't testify in court
4. no interracial marriage
5. no weapons
Union League
Repub. org. that monitored bl.voting
Invisible Empire of South
KKK
Force Acts of 1870-1871
Grant sends troops South to stop KKK
Predominant religions of black community
Negro Baptist
African Methodist
Election of 1868 (who won)
Grant won b/c war popularity
Congress turns greedy
Fisk/Gould Scandal
Gold inflation
Black Friday
Credit-Mobilier Scandal
Hired by Union Pacific RR to build transcont RR
Whiskey Ring
Gov't gets kickbacks from liquor industry
Election of 1872
Greeley (Liberal Repub) vs. Grant (Repub)
By 1876, Mil Reconst ends in all but (3) states
SC, LA, FL
Election of 1876
Tilden (D) vs. Hayes (R)

Tilden won popular vote but compromise that Hayes wins & mil reconst ends in FL, SC, LA
Compromise of 1877
1. Hayes = Pres.
2. Mil. Reconst over in SC, LA, FL
Confederate Constitution (5)
-Protective tariffs prohibited
-Slavery protected
-One 6 yr. term for presidency
-President can veto single items in appropriations bill
-State sovereignty above all
Crittenden Compromise
By KY Senator John Crittenden

-Can never abolish slavery where it existed
-MO Comp. line extend to Pacific
US Assets in Civil War
-$
-bigger pop.
-industry
-navy
-RR
-organized gov't
Confederate Assets in Civil War
-European ties
-Better military leaders
-supplies
-home turf
NY Draft Riot
against conscription bill (1863)
rich could hire substitutes
Confederate conscription started in this year
1862
Lincoln's 5 Acts
-blockade
-increase army size
-$2 mil. to war contractors
-suspended Habeus Corpus
-shut down newspapers
Democrats (1832/36)
-Pro-Jackson
-States' rights
-working class/farmers
-less powerful gov't
-anti-national bank/laissez fiare econ.
Whigs (1832/36-56)
-Anti-Jackson
-Gov't communal benefit
-Henry Clay/American System
-Northern industrialists
-Elites
-National Bank
-Moral reforms
American Party (1850's)
Know-Nothings

-anti-immigrant nativists
-anti-German/Irish Catholic
-won local/state elections

-1852 stole whig votes
Free Soil Party (1848-1854)
Free Soil, Speech, Labor, Men

-anti-slavery, conscience whigs
-slavery = competition for whites
Election of 1860
Breckinridge (Dem-S) vs. Douglas (Dem-N) vs. Bell (Constitutional Union) vs. Lincoln (Repub)

Lincoln won (duhh).
Southerners declare secession b/c Lincoln won.