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30 Cards in this Set
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Adams – Onis Treaty
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a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain
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Claims Associations
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any association or group that is formed to protect the rights that people have placed claims on, such as a rifle association, etc.
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“Preemption” Rights
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It usually refers to property newly coming into existence. A right to acquire existing property in preference to any other person
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National Road
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was one of the first major improved highways in the United States to be built by the federal government. Construction began in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac River. It crossed the Allegheny Mountains and southwestern Pennsylvania, reaching Wheeling, Virginia
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Erie Canal
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It was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard (New York City) and the western interior (Great Lakes) of the United States that did not require portage, was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by about 95%.
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Cotton Gin
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a machine developed by Eli Whitney which revolutionized the cotton production industry in Southern America and also led to the need of more and more slaves on the Southern plantations
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Balance of Power (between North and South)
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there seemed to have been more power in the South due to the three-fifths compromise, however, the power was somewhat balanced with the passage of the Missouri Compromise.
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“Putting Out” System
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was a means of subcontracting work. It was also known as the workshop system. In putting-out, work was contracted by a central agent to subcontractors who completed the work in their own facilities, usually their own homes
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Lowell factories
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Francis Cabot Lowell invented the first factory system " where all the factory steps are under one roof ", also, a series of mills and factories were built along the Merrimack River by the Boston Manufacturing Company, an organization founded years prior by the man for whom the resulting city was named, Francis Cabot Lowell.
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Second Bank of the US
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was created in 1816 after the system of stae banks had failed to establish a successful currency system and the inflation was spiraling out off control
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“American System”
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was a set of manufacturing methods that evolved in the 19th century. It involved semi-skilled labor using machine tools and jigs to make standardized, identical, interchangeable parts, also deals with the economic plan of Henry Clay
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“Era of Good Feelings”
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was a period in United States political history in which partisan bitterness abated. It lasted approximately from 1816 to 1824, during the administration of U.S. President James Monroe, who deliberately downplayed partisanship
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Tallmadge Amendment
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was submitted by James Tallmadge, Jr. in the United States House of Representatives on February 13, 1819, during the debate regarding the admission of Missouri as a state. Tallmadge, an opponent of slavery, sought to impose conditions on Missouri that would extinguish slavery within a generation
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland.
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John Calhoun
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was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century and was the 7th vice president of the United States
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John Quincy Adams
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was the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829). He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties.
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James Monroe
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was the fifth President of the United States (1817–1825). Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation. His presidency was marked both by an "Era of Good Feelings" – a period of relatively little partisan strife – and later by the Panic of 1819 and a fierce national debate over the admission of the Missouri Territory. Monroe is most noted for his proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823
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Blackhawk
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was a leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the United States. Although he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not one of the Sauk's hereditary civil chiefs. His status came from leading war parties as a young man, and from his leadership of a band of Sauks during the Black Hawk War of 1832.
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Henry Clay
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was a 19th-century American planter, statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, where he served as Speaker. He also served as Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829.
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Dartmouth College v Woodward
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations.
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“Implied Powers”
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are those powers authorized by a legal document (from the Constitution) which, while not stated, are seemed to be implied by powers expressly stated.
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Monroe Doctrine
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a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention. The doctrine was introduced by President Monroe when he was enraged at the actions being executed around him
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European Grand Alliance
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was a coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815 at the behest of Czar Alexander I of Russia, signed by the three powers in Paris on September 26, 1815, in the Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon
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Missouri Compromise
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was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30' north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution
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Specie
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the metal coin money that was used in mass amounts during the era of good feeling and beyond that period of time as well
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Whig Party (formation of)
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was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party.
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Panic of 1819
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was the first major financial crisis in the United States, which occurred during the end of the Era of Good Feelings. happened due to the failur of the country's natioal currency system and lack of a working National Bank
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Robert Fulton (Clermont)
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was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat
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John Jacob Astor
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was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur trading, real estate and opium.
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