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33 Cards in this Set
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Andrew Jackson
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president known as "the friend of the common man"
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Henry Clay
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Speaker of the House who formulated the Missouri Compromise
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American System
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a union of states bound by cords of commerce; economic nationalism
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tariff
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a tax on imported goods
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protective tariff
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an unusually high tariff designed to shield a nation's manufactures from potentially fatal foreign competition
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internal improvements
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national funding for roads, canals, harbors, and railroads
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Tariff of 1816
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America's first protectionist legislation
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National Road
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famous road the government built from Baltimore onward; basically the same route of Interstate 70 east of St. Louis
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Missouri Compromise
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proposed that Maine be admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state, and that in the rest of the Louisiana Territory, slavery not be permitted north of the 36, 30' parallel, Missouri's southern boundary
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caucus
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a closed meeting of party leaders
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John Quincy Adams
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president who won fewer popular votes than the candidate he defeated
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Democratic Party
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party that claimed to be the party of the "common man" and is still in existence today
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Martin Van Buren
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the "Little Magician" whose administration was marred by a depression
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John C. Calhoun
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the vice president who proposed the doctrine of nullification
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spoils system
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replacement of government officeholders with supporters of the new administration
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"Kitchen Cabinet"
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Jackson's close circle of informal advisors
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nullification
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view that states can reject congressional acts that they deem unconstitutional
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third party
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competition against the major political parties
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platform
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a written statement describing where the party stood on various issues
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national convention
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where state delegates gathered to nominate the party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates
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"pet banks"
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state banks; called this by Jacksons opponents
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Indian removal policy
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United States began moving the Indians westward and opening Indian lands in the east to white settlement
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Sequoyah
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brilliant Cherokee who developed a written Cherokee alphabet
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Trail of Tears
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forced removal of the civilized Tribes from their homeland
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Whig Party
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anti-Jackson forces who formed a political alliance in the early 1830s
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independent treasury
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replaced the state banks as a depository for federal funds
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William Henry Harrison
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the president whose administration lasted only one month
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John Tyler
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supported states' rights and unexpectedly became president when the president died
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What were the three components of Henry Clay's American System?
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protective tariffs, internal improvements, and renewal of the National Bank
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What were the three political precedents of the presidential election of 1832?
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the first third party, the first party platform, and the first national nominating convention
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What Indian tribe tried to keep its lands through legal action?
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Cherokee
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What issue lay at the heart of debate over the admission of Missouri as a state?
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the balance of slave states and free states in the Senate
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What was the main issue that pulled the Whig party together?
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Jackson's policies
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