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McCullough v. Maryland

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Regarded the concerns of national gov powers. Although the Constitution did not specify that the fed government could create a bank, regulate commerce and taxing, it was “necessary and proper” to do so to excercise these powers.

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Monroe Doctrine

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American policy of trying to prevent European powers from interfering in Latin American political affairs; stay out of Western Hemisphere or risk war

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Gibbons v. Ogden

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Rules that anything crossing state boundaries came under federal law

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Steamboat

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Invented by Robert Fulton

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Eli Whitney

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Popularized interchangeable parts; invented cotton gin

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Yeoman Farmers

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Ordinary farmers who held 4 or less slaves; made up majority of white population

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Labor Unions

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Workers who joined together to push for similar changes: higher wages, shorter workday

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Strikes

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Work stoppages

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Tariff of 1816

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Protective Tariff. Intended to protect American manufacturers by taxing imports in order to drive up prices

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Name of the first steamboat

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Clermont

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Who invented the telegraph?

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Samuel Morse

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When did the railroad come about?

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1830

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What encouraged westward expansion?

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Railroad

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Task System

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Workers are given a specific set of jobs to accomplish

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Driver

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Director of a work gang; usually enslaved people chosen for their loyalty

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Missouri Compromise

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After Missouri wanted to be admitted as a state there was an issue in representation in Congress because of slaves…The compromise was that Missouri was a slave state and Maine admitted as a free state

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Mudslinging

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Criticizing each others personalities/morals

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Corrupt Bargain

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Adams was accused of this because Henry Clay was going to be admitted his Secretary of State even though he did not actually support his views

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Adams-Onis

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  1. Spain ceded all of Florida to the US; finalized the western border of the Louisiana Purchase
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Cece McCarty

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Amassed a fortune in New Orleans by importing dry imports and had slaves to sell them.

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Nat Turner

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Enslaved minister who led a rebellion and killed 50 white men women and children

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First major slave uprising was led by whom

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Gabriel Prosser

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Henry Clay resided in what state

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Kentucky

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John C Calhoun resided in what state

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South Carolina

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Who solved the Missouri Comprimise?

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Henry Clay

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When was the Missouri Compromise?

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1820

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When was the Monroe Doctrine?

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1823

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The Erie Canl connected Lake Erie to the

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Hudson River

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Caucus System

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The nominee for president is chosen by party member who serve in Congress

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Spoils system

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Practice of giving people government jobs on the basis of party loyalty

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What was the caucus system replaced with?

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National Nominating Convention

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Secede

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Withdraw from the Union

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Force Bill

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Authorized the president to use military to enforce acts of Congress

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Nullification

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States had the right to declare a federal law not valid

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Panic of 1837

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Worcester v. Georgia

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Chief Justice John Marshall sided with the Cherokee and ordered state officials to honor their property rights.

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Who led the Whigs to defeat the democrats?

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William Henry Harrison

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What did Jackson want to put the Indians ?

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Great Plains

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What was the nationality of the largest wave of immigrants during 1815-60?

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Irish…second we’re German

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Nativism

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Hostility toward foreigners because of different religions, beliefs, languages

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What religious group traveled to Utah to escape persecution?

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Mormons

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Where did romanticism originate?

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Germany

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Penny Papers

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Inexpensive newspapers that had content people wanted

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Gradualism

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The belief that slavery had to be ended slowly

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Second Great Awakening

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In the early 1800s ministers began an effort to revive people’s commitment to religion.

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Romanticism

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Urged people to overcome the limits of their minds and let their souls reach out to embrace the beauty of the universe

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Transcendentalism

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Horace Mann

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One of the leaders of the public education movement

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Seneca Falls Convention

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The gathering of women reformers marked the beginning of an organized women’s movement

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Active in the antislavery and women’s movement

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Who wrote the Liberator?

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William Llyod Garrison; it posted caustic attacks on slavery

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Sojourner Truth

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Important African American female abolitionist who eventually gained freedom whose speeches drew huge crowds

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What did William Llyod Garrison create?

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American Anti-Slavery Society

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The most prominent African Americans in the abolitionist movement:

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Frederick Douglass

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin

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Indian Removal Act

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Jackson gave Congress money for relocating Native Americans

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Trail of Tears

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In the process of Indian Removal to the Great Plains, 2,000+ died of starvation disease and exposure on the journey

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Tariff of Abominations

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The increasingly high tariffs on goods in the north to he sold to the South; SC wanted to secede

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