Ch.10

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Jacksonianism

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political philosophy of United States President Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Jackson's policies followed the era of Jeffersonian democracy which dominated the previous political era

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“Spoils System”

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a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party—as opposed to a system of awarding offices on the basis of some measure of merit independent of political activity.

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Indian Removal

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a nineteenth century policy of the government of the United States to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river.

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Jackson’s attitude toward Native Americans

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He saw them as people in the way of American expansion, he wanted them out of their land and pushed as far west as possible

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“Trail of Tears”

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the forced relocation and movement of Native Americans, including many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, and Choctaw nations among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma)

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Nullification Crisis

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a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared, by the power of the State itself, that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina

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The Bank War

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the name given to the controversy over the Second Bank of the United States and the attempts to destroy it by then-president Andrew Jackson.

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Whigs – party growth and platform

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Govt. has the right to subsidize and protect enterprises that could contribute to domestic growth
Tariff protection

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“Specie Circular”

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an executive order issued by U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and carried out by President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.

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John Calhoun

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the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun, a talented orator and writer, began his political career as a nationalist and proponent of protective tariffs

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Worcester v Georgia

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was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester, holding that the Georgia criminal statute, prohibiting non-Indians from being present on Indian lands without a license from the state, was unconstitutional.

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Roger Taney

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He is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African Americans, being considered "of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race" at the time the Constitution was drafted, could not be considered citizens of the United States.

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Force Bill

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was initially enacted on March 2, 1833 to authorize U.S. President Andrew Jackson's use of whatever force necessary to enforce Federal tariffs. It was intended to suppress South Carolina's refusal to collect tariffs during the Nullification Crisi

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Peggy Eaton

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Through her marriage to United States Senator John Henry Eaton, she had a central role in the Petticoat affair that disrupted the cabinet of Andrew Jackson.[2]

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Tariff of 1828

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was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828 designed to protect industry in the northern United States. It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy and led to the Nullification Crisis.

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Nicholas Biddle

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was an American financier who served as the president of the Second Bank of the United States.

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America

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“Self Made Man”

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is a famous lecture by Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895). In this speech, which was first delivered in 1859, he gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man.

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“Two Party System”

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is one where two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government.

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Tariff of Abominations

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It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy and led to the Nullification Crisis.

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JQ Adams and Tariffs

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he agreed with tariffs, this is why he won over the support of the Northerners in the election of 1824, the rest of the country voted for Jackson resulting in Adams' defeat

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Election of 1828

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featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson. As incumbent Vice President John C. Calhoun had sided with the Jacksonians, the National Republicans led by Adams, chose Richard Rush as Adams' running mate

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Criticisms of the National Bank

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It concentrated the nation's financial strength in a single institution.
It exposed the government to control by foreign interests.
It served mainly to make the rich richer.
It exercised too much control over members of Congress.
It favored northeastern states over southern and western states.

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Panic of 1837

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was a financial crisis in the United States built on a speculative fever. The bubble burst on May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank began to accept payment only in specie

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Kitchen Cabinet

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was a term used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unofficial advisers he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton affair and his break with Vice President John C. Calhoun in 1831

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“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”

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was a very popular and influential campaign song of the Whig Party's colorful Log Cabin Campaign in the 1840 United States presidential election.

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Alexis de Toqueville

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“Positive Liberal State”

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Who were the Democrats?

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Voter Participation

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Impact of Trade Unions

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