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20 Cards in this Set
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Battle of New Orleans
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Andrew Jackson leads the Americans who defeat the British and protect New Orleans and the Mississippi River
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Treaty of Ghent
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Proposed an armistice and failed to settle the main issues of the war, impressments and British occupation of Western Forts
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Hartford Convention
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Federalists in New England propose secession from the Union if their concerns are not addressed. I will bring about the death of the Federalist Party
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Rush-Bagot treaty
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the USA and Great Britain agree to not fortify the Great Lakes or the boundary tween two countries which will create the world's largest fortified boundary
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Tariff of 1816
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The first tariff designed primarily to protect U.S. industries from foreign competition
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American system
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Established by Henry Clay to increase trade by supporting a strong banking system protective tariffs and the network of roads and canals
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Era of good feelings
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Common name given to the time. Following the war of 1812 and the election of James Monroe
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Panic of 1819
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caused by over speculation in western lands by the Bank of the United States
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Land Act of 1820
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Allowed further westward expansion by providing for the cheap sale of land
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Tallmadge amendment
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No more slaves would be brought into Missouri and children born to slave parents in Missouri would be given eventual freedom
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Missouri Compromise
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Missouri would be admitted as a slave state while Maine would be admitted as a free state and establishes the 36 30 line to separate the free and slave states
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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uses the elastic clause to justify Congress' ability to establish the bank of united states
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Cohens v. Virginia
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Marshall strengthens the power of the federal government by asserting the right of the Supreme Court to review the decisions of the state supreme Courts
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Gibbons vs Ogden
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Says that only Congress can control interstate commerce, not the states themselves
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Fletcher vs Peck
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establishes the right of the Supreme Court to invalidate state laws that conflict with the Constitution
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Dartmouth college vs Woodward
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Establishes the validity of contracts by saying that contracts are protected by the Constitution
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The Treaty of 1818
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Put the northern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase at 49th parallel and provided for a 10 year joint occupation of the Oregon Territory with Britain
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The Florida purchase treaty
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Spain ceded Florida to the US for 5 million and gave up all claims to Oregon in exchange for U.S. giving up claim to Texas
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Monroe Doctrine
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No new European colonization in the Americas, including Latin American, and the US would not interfere in European affairs
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Russo - American Treaty
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fixed the southern boundary of the Alaskan territory at 54°40'
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