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49 Cards in this Set

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postwar tax to protect American manufacturing
Tariff of 1816
Calhoun's bill to fund road construction, Madison vetoed
Bonus Bill veto
US foreign policy statement ending European colonization in America
Monroe Doctrine
postwar period marked by a lack of political strife
Era of Good Feelings
Federalist judge for increased power of federal government
Chief Justice John Marshall
MO and ME added as states, boundary set for future slave states
Missouri Compromise
proposed policy to end imports and exports
Clay's American System
inventor of cotton gin and interchangeable assembly parts
Eli Whitney
Massachusetts senator, leading spokesman for the NOrth
Daniel Webster
federally funded public road through Cumberland Pass
National Road
economic infrastructure, ie roads and canals
Internal improvements
term used to describe political deals made in the 1824 election
"corrupt bargain"
tariff of 1828 providing extremely high rates of protection
Tariff of Abominations
states' rights opposition to the tariff of 1828
South Carolina exposition
change in politics and social movement associated with Jackson's election
Jacksonian Democracy
increase in political power and economic rights
Age of the common man
political practice of rewarding supporters with government appointments
Spoils system
opponents of Jacksonian Democrats, aka Whigs
National Republicans
exclusive party meeting used to nominate candidates
Caucus
forced removal of Cherokee Indians from Georgia
Trail of Tears
attempt by Jackson's opponents to make the Bank and election issue
Bank Recharter Bill
Jacksonian threat to force states to pay the tariff with military
Force Bill
economic decline caused by lack of money supply
Panic of 1837
belief in a spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical realized through intuitive awareness of the individual; Thoreau, Emerson
Transcendentalism
art school characterized by landscapes and nationalism
Hudson River School
French political observer of American Democracy
Alexis de Tocqueville
religious and philosophical groups forming ideal communities
Utopian societies
social reformer, humane treatment of the insane
Dorothea Dix
social reformer; public education
Horace Mann
social reformers advocating less alcoholism
American Temperance Union
belief in limiting immigration, distrust of new immigrants
Nativism
social reformer, women's rights
Lucretia Mott
social reformer, women's rightss
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
women's rights gathering in 1848
Seneca Falls Convention
description of the American West
Great American Desert
belief in inevitable spread of US to the West
Manifest Destiny
American advocate of Texas independence
Stephen Austin
leader of Mexican government and military
Santa Ana
famous battle of the TExas War for independence
Alamo
Texas victory claiming revenge for Alamo
San Jacinto
1836-45 Texas was an independent country
Republic of Texas
Polk's campaign slogan advocating expansion
54 40 or fight
one term expansionist President
Polk
Congressional arguments aimed at stopping war in Mexico
Spot resolutions
surrender of large part of land to the US following war
Mexican Cession
highly prized land in Oregon terrirtory
Willamette Valley
House bill aimed at prohibiting slavery in new territories
Wilmot Proviso
US bought railroad route from Mexico afer the war
Gadsden Purchase
predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another
Hegemony