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14 Cards in this Set
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The Era of Good Feelings
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The time after the war when the U.S. was at peace and a national agreement.
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The Monroe Doctrine
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President Monroe wrote a statement to European powers saying North and South America were off limits to colonizaton by any foreign country.
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The Missouri Compromise
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Missouri enters the Union a slave state while Maine joined as a free state.
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The American System
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The plan for using high tarrifs to pay for international improvements.
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The Nominating Conventions
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Meetings to select a party's presidential and vice presidential candidates.
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The Democratic Party
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Andrew Jackson's supporters (mostly poor citizens and fronier settlers).
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The Spoils System
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Jackson's reward to some of his supporters was government jobs.
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States' Rights
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elief that state power should be greater than federal power.
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nullification
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Calhoun's declaration that the states had the right to not obey any federal law they disagreed with.
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The Tariff of Abominations
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Nickname for any new tariffs (taxes on imports and exports) Congress passed.
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The Indian Removal Act
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Authorized the removal of Indians who lived east of the Mississippi.
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Indian Territory
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An area containin most of present-day Oklahoma that was set as a new homeland for removed tribes.
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Worchester Versus Georgia
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Cherokee Nation tried to use fed. court to stay where they were, but they lost and were relocated.
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Trail of Tears
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The 800-mile road the Cherokee tribe marched where almost one fourth of the 18,000 Cherokee died.
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