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46 Cards in this Set
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Despite the Supreme Court's ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland, President Jackson thought the bank of the United States was
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unconstitutional
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Jackson strongly supported the practice of appointing people to government jobs on the basis of party loyalty and support, which was called the
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Spoils System
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Many South Carolinian's threatened to secede, or withdraw, from the Union when Congress levied what critics called the
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Tariff of Abominations
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When President Adams named Henry Clay his secretary of state, Andrew Jackson's supporters accused Adams and Clay of
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striking a corrupt bargain
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Supreme Court rulings in three important cases between 1816 and 1824 shaped the future of American government by
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establishing dominance of the nation over the states
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In the election of 1824, supporters of Andrew Jackson accused John Quincy Adams of winning through a "corrupt bargain," in which Adams gave
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Henry Clay a cabinet post (Sec. of State)
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As president, John Quincy Adams wanted to
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expand the use of federal funds for internal improvements
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The people who formed utopian communities believed that
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society tended to corrupt humans
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Underlying the prison reform movement was a belief in
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rehabilitating prisoners rather than just locking them up
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In the early 1800s, religious leaders organized to revive Americans' commitment to religion in a movement called the
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Second Great Awakening
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The change from home-based workshops to factories that often housed hundreds of machines and workers was one of several basic developments of
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The Industrial Revolution
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Midwestern agriculture received a boost from both the plow and an invention patented by Cyrus McCormick called the
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Mechanical Reaper
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Seeking religious freedom, the Mormons traveled west, settling in what is now
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Utah
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During the presidential election of 1836, Jackson's popularity and the nation's prosperity helped Democrat Martin ___________ defeat the Whigs.
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Van Buren
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In 1830 Jackson pushed through Congress the Indian _____________ Act, which provided money for relocating the Native Americans.
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Removal
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Andrew Jackson's forceful style had earned him plenty of detractors, and by the mid- 1830s a new party- named the _________ after the party in England that had worked to limit the king's power- had emerged to oppose him.
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Whigs
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The Whigs looked forward to ousting the Democrats in the election of 1840 and nominated General William Henry Harrison, who was regarded as a hero for his role in the Battle of ___________.
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Tippecanoe
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Many of the voters who supported Andrew Jackson in the election of 1828 were from the ________ and South, rural and small-town men who saw Jackson as the candidate most likely to represent their interests.
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West
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Elizabeth ___________ became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States or Europe and founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, which was staffed entirely by women.
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Blackwell
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Prison reform, educational reform, and __________, or moderation in the consumption of alcohol, were among the causes reform groups targeted in their attempts to change American society.
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Temperance
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Who spoke at the Seneca Falls' Convention delivering the speech "Ain't I a Woman"?
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Sojourner Truth
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Began in England, machines replace human labor
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Industrial Revolution
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Interchangeable parts- ex. Muskets- Cotton Gin
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Eli Whitney
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Eli Whitney, "engine", increased slave labor, removed cotton seeds
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Cotton Gin
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Mass produced, all pieces are made the same
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interchangeable parts
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God's will for Americans to move west (sea to shining sea)
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Manifest Destiny
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To stop or limit alcohol
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Temperance movement
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Movement to end slavery
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Abolitionism
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All children should attend school, free, supported by tax payers
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Public School Reform
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To give women the right to vote
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women's suffrage
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Women's Right, organizer of the Seneca Falls Conference
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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First women's right convention
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Seneca Falls
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Expanded voting rights for white males, nationalism
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Jacksonian Democracy
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Extreme pride in one's country, developed after the War of 1812 (Battle of New Orleans)
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American Nationalism
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Financially compensate slave owners who emancipate their slaves, strong in the North, lead to hostility between the North and South
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Abolitionism
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Abolitionist, newspaper The Liberator
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Former slave, abolitionist, newspaper The North Star
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F. Douglas
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Quakers, abolitionists, women's rights
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Grimke sisters
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36/30 line, Mo slave state & Maine a Free State, Henry Clay The Great Compromiser
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Missouri Compromisers
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Led a slave rebellion in Virginia, killed many whites
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Nat Turner
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SC threatened to succeed over the Tariff of 1828 (abomination), effected the South, benefited the North. Jackson against it, Calhoun for it
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Nullification Crisis
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Jackson's VP, state's rights, sectionalism, nullification
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John C. Calhoun
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Division between the north and south, of two "nations creation"
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Sectionalism
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States are supreme over the Federal government
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States Rights
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Gained territory- the issue of slavery in the west?
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Mexican-American War
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No slavery shall exist in the territory gained from Mexico
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Wilmost Proviso
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