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60 Cards in this Set
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Election of 1828 |
Dirty campaign between Jackson and Adams |
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Indian Reorganization Act |
Negotiation with the Indians, from Jackson to leave. Gained support of White Settlers |
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Jackson's attitude towards the National Bank |
Hated Nicholaus Biddle and the National Bank. Invested money in pet banks, caused nation wide inflation and the Panic of 1837 |
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Jackson's attitude concerning Texas |
Annexation of Texas might led to a civil war, or a war with Mexico, so Jackson did not approach |
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Jackson's Positives |
Looked out for the common man, supported democracy, First president from the west-ended the established elite "system". He had close friends, but also had bitter enemies
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Jackson's Negatives |
Trail of Tears and Indians, National Bank and Panic of 1837 |
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Kitchen Cabinet |
Jackson's closest friends that were involved with the govt. but not appointed on his cabinet |
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Trail of Tears |
Result of Removal Act, forced relocation of Native Americans. Caused Native American pop. to decrease |
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Nicolas Biddle |
President of National Banks, Created "soft money". |
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Panic of 1837 |
Financial Crisis, Led to Depression, ended "soft money" |
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John C Calhoun |
Vice Pres for Jackson, Resigned, agreed with a high tariff, Nullification |
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Specie Circular |
Paper money or soft money would no longer be accepted when buying fed. land |
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Daniel Webster |
Sec. of State for John Tyler. One cabinet member that did not resign. Webster Ashburton Treaty - Established boundaries between Canada and US |
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William Henry Harrison |
Election of 1840, Whig Candidate, Log cabin campaign |
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Henry Clay |
The Great Compromiser, ran for president multiple times,never won. Involved in major compromises |
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Alexis de Toqueville |
Wrote Democracy in America |
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Dorthea Dix |
Asylum Movement |
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William LLoyd Garrison |
Editor of abolitionist newspaper, founder of antislavery society |
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Liberty Party |
3rd Party, Impact on the 1844 election, cost Clay the election |
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Seneca Falls Convention |
Raised the status of women, Start of the women's movement |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Women's movement. Main Leader at Seneca Falls Convention |
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Susan B. Anthony |
Arrested for trying to vote, Women's rights activitst |
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Frederick Douglass |
Former Slave, Abolitionist, Speaker |
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Transcententalism |
Nature based thinking literature movement |
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Manifest Destiny |
America should be the entire Contient |
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Impact of Mexican War |
Gained Land, Created a Boundary |
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Common Schools |
Public Schools, Provided a basic education |
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James Fenimore Cooper |
Romanticism, Emphasis of feelings and free expression of the artist |
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Washington Irving |
Wrote the Sleepy Hallow |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
Depressing life, credited during the transcendentalism time period |
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Nathaniel Hawthrone |
Obsessed with the Puritans Wrote the Scarlett Letter |
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Horace Mann |
Credited for creating Public Schools |
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James K. Polk |
President after Tyler, Mexican War, Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850 |
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Nicholas Trist |
Negotiator for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ended Mexican War |
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Texas Independence |
Gained after the Mexican War. Debate over whether it should be a slave or free state |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
ended Mexican War |
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Wilmot Proviso |
Anti- Slavery, Land Acquired from Mexican War |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Henry Clay credited for compromise. Cal. was a free state The rest of the S.W would be organized territory without the mention of slavery Texas was free of debt Slave trade was abolished in DC Fugitive Slave Law- Enforced |
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
Part of the Compromise of 1850, ..... |
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Barnburners |
Democrat faction, Free Soil Democrats. Antislavery. Divided Party |
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Dred Scott Decision |
No Boundaries on Slavery |
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Freeport Doctrine |
written by Stephen Douglas, Popular Sovereignty in the states-- States decide on the issue of slave |
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Free Soil Party |
Formed the Republican Party "Free Soil, Land, Men, and Speech" |
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Know Nothing Party |
Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Catholic. No one else should come to America |
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Kansa Nebraska Act |
Steven Douglas Idea, Railroad through Chicago to California, and Pop. Sovereignty in Kansas. Overturns the MO Compromise |
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John Brown |
Crazy.. Led a Slave Rebellion, not successful Could have prevented the Civil war
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederate States of America Caused the Confederacy to be weak |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Border Ruffians |
Men went from MO to Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska and voted for slavery |
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Charles Sumner |
Preston Brooks beat him with a cane on the Senate floor |
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Dough Face |
President Pierce is an example, neither pro slavery or abolitionist. Could be "molded" by the public |
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Ostend Manifesto |
Cuba would be taken, if Spain did not sell it to us |
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Election of 1860 |
Lincoln wins, Southern States secede |
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Secession |
Southern states secede before Lincoln is in office. Upper Southern states secede after Fort Sumnter |
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Stephen Douglas |
Senator from Illinois, debated with Lincoln, Democratic nominee, came in 4th in the election of 1860. |
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Abraham Lincoln |
President during Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th amendment, |
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Cotton is King |
Used to Support Slavery in the South. North couldn't survive economically without slavery and cotton |
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Morrill Land Grant |
established colleges in the west |
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African American Soliders |
Some slaves before, Some joined after Emancipation Proclaimation |
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Trent Affair |
potential help from Britain for the Confederacy |
