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62 Cards in this Set
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Corrupt Bargain |
The last of the old style elections |
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Spoils System |
Rotation in office is good/reward supporters. Later leads to corruption |
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Torrif of Abominations |
High tariffs increase costs and reduce exports |
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John C. Calhoun |
Wrote the south Carolina exposition and protest (anonymously - said tariff was unconstitutional states have the right to nullify the tariff |
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Five Civilized Tribes |
Cherokee Chickpeas Choctaw Creek Seminole |
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Indian Removal Act 1830 |
- grant pres. Authority to move Indians west -pomised "permanent" freedom from white enroachmebts in oklahoma |
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Nicholas Biddle |
Pres. Of the 2nd bank -lent money to influential friends -bank good with some corruption |
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AntiMason Party |
A third party in the election of 1832 -want equal opportunity + end the secret society |
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1836 Specie Circular |
Only specie (hard currency) accepted as payment for the public lands |
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1840 Independant Treasury System |
Instead of depositing money into state, fed. Government keeps the money in government vaults |
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1823 Steven Austin |
Given land grants for Texas. Agreed to become " Mexican" didnt follow through |
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Santa Anna |
The dictator of Mexico |
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Whigs |
Similar to Fed. National government U.S. bank + high tariffs Internal improvement linked |
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Mudslinging |
Make the other people look bad |
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Kitchen Cabinet |
Everyone quit, so Pres. Jackson talked to his friends |
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Revolution of 1812 |
Rise of the common man |
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Gag rule |
Memebers of the house is not allowed to talk Argument turned heated and nothing was solved |
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Ordinance of nullification |
1. Nullified tariff of the 1832(32%) for SC 2. Called on the legislature to start making military prep 3. Threatened to secede if fed. Goverenment tried to collect money and save |
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Force Act of 1833 |
Authorized pres to use force to collect duties in SC |
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Trail of Tears |
16000 Cherokee moved west 4000 died |
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Co promise tariff of 1833 |
Proposed by Henry clay Reduced tariff to 20% over 8 years |
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1832 Black Hawk War |
Resisted removed for IL/WI area Fed. Troops almost annilated black hawk Indians |
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1835-1842 Seminole war |
Seminole Indians retreated into TL everglades Wage guerilla warfare for 7 years Leader captures and 3/4 moved to OK |
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Pain of 1837 |
1. Wildcat banks 2. Overspeculation 3. Specie circular 4. Failure of British banks 5. Crops failed |
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Treaty of San Jacinto |
Texas independent Pro Grande as the southern boarder Released Santa anna/ later voided treaty |
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Kentucky Bluegrass |
Made for the ideal posture for livestock |
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Rendezvous system |
A large meeting that had all types of tranfers or furs and goods to be traded for furs |
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George catlin |
A painter and student of native American life |
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Know nothing's |
Prominent US political party. Opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic church |
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Samuel Slater |
Father of the factory system Memorized plans for the machinery in Britain and escaped in disguise for America |
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Labor unions |
Organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests |
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Cult of Domesticity |
A view about women they should stay home and not do work outside the house |
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1790-1860 reasons for immigration |
1. Overpopulation 2.opportunity 3. Famine 4. War 5. American letters 6. Improved transports |
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John Deere |
Produced a steel plow |
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Cyrus McCormick |
Mechanical mower Reaper |
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Robert Fulton |
Engineer credited WL developing a commercially successful steamboat |
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Erie Canal |
Links the Great Lake WL the Hudson River |
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Eli Whitney |
Invetor of the cotton gin Immediately became a profitable 's Crop |
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Development of US manufacturing climate |
1. Markets 2. Inventions 3. Cheap labor |
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Commonwealth vs. Hunt |
-Supreme court of Massachusetts -labor unions are legal as long as their actions are honest |
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Lowell and Waltham system |
- all stages of production into one factory -recruited young female workers (15-30 years old) 1. High wages 2. Boarding houses 3. Cultural events and lectures |
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Working women |
-not many opportunities -teaching, nursing, domestic service acceptable 10% of white women worked outside the house |
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Transportation revolution |
Made industrialization possible 1. Roads 2. Steamboat 3. Canals 4. Railroads 5. Shipping 6. Communication 7. Pony express |
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Market revolution |
- all of this made the US one economic unit - regional specialization a fact |
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Unitarians |
-adopted ideas of deists - believed in only one God -rejected the divinity of Christ -attracted the wealthy and educated |
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Second great awakening |
- religious revival spread by camp meetings (drink hellfire gospel) -distinguished by exercises -most successful ministers we farmers and artistian -growth of Methodists and baptists |
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Charles Grandison Finney |
"Anxious bench" Said sin was voluntary/ no one had to sin Recog used the importance of women converts |
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Burned over district |
Upper new York Rivals and the formation of new religious movemnts of the second great awakening |
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William miller |
Christ would come Oct. 22, 1844 Ellen White said Christ did return but it was spiritual Followers became 7th day adventists |
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Joseph Smith Brigham young |
JS Mormons. BY Led Mormons to utah Tax supported public education Increased suffrage and increased immigration Free education seems necessary |
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Horace Mann |
Education reform More schools, longer compelled attendance, divided into grades, standard texts, higher pay and construction for teachers |
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Noah Webster |
Readers and soellers Dictionary |
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Jacksomian Social Reform |
1. Education 2. Criminal law 3. Asylums 4. Temperance (prohibition) 5. Women's rights 6. Utopianism (perfect community) |
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Dorthea Dix |
Thought institutions should treat patients with love and care |
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Amelia Bloomer |
Revolted against female attire |
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Declaration of sentiments |
First women's rights document Similar to the declararion of independence |
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Literature |
"Inner light" will illuminate the highest truth and put you in contact with God or the "oversoul" Truth "transcends" the senses Self dicipline, individualism, and authority |
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John J. Audubon |
Painted wild fowl in their natural habitat |
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Hudson River School |
A group of landscpe painters |
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Stephen Foster |
Father of American music, a song writer |
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Washington Irving |
American author, biographer, and historian |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Write "the American Scholar" Leader of transcentalist movement |
