APUSH Midterm IDs Flashcards

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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established Roanoke, left and returned in 1580 to find it gone and the word Croatoan carved on a tree

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in 1585 Philip II launched the Spanish Armada to bring troops to England for an invasion. the English used a hit and run tactic for defense. as the Armada was about to land at Dover the "Protestant Wind" pushes it away. after the Armada lost Spain began their slow descent from power and Britain began its rise

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in 1606 the Virginia Company was chartered by King James I. this charter gave the settlers the same rights they would in England. upon arrival to Jamestown the Englishmen were too busy looking for gold to find food and starved. John Smith saved Jamestown by making the people work. the winters between when Smith left and De La Warr came were called the starving time. In 1610 the settlers tried to leave only to be stopped by Lord De La Warr who declared war on the Powhatans and used "Irish tactics" to defeat them. in 1614 a treaty was signed between the Indians and English sealed by the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. the truce was broken and the treaty following would destroy any hope of natives ever assimilating into English society or peacefully coexisting

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acted as an intermediary between the English and the Powhatans and sealed the treaty of 1614 by marrying John Rolfe

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John Rolfe mixed New World and Old World tobacco to produce a better product that would become the South's cash crop for years to come, driving slavery and building the South's economy. a poor man's crop whereas sugar was a rich man's crop

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allows for 50 acres for each person to establish farming in the new world

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the Jamestown house of government

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the policy set up in Maryland, giving freedom of religion to Protestants or Catholics, but death penalty to any other religion, ex. Jews, atheists

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the Carolinas | created when Charles II rewarded 8 lords with land

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very aristocratic very wealthy tried to use natives as slaves first colony with slave codes brought in natives from West Indies with the knowledge of how to grow rice, sugar, and indigo their economy was based on selling food to the West Indies

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formed from the riff-raff of Virginia and South Carolina grew timber and tobacco NC and RI were the most democratic, independent, and the least aristocratic

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the last colony, formed as a debtor's prison and to be a buffer colony separating SC and Spanish Florida led by James Oglethorpe debtors' prison colony slow growth due to poor health

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1st the Pilgrims (separatists) go to Holland, but when worried about Dutchification they sell everything to move to Virginia but land on the outskirts of Cape Cod, try to sail to Virginia but end up back at Cape Cod, take it as a sign from God 1st colony absorbed into Massachusetts

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written by John Carver and signed by the pilgrims to prevent mutinying stated that the majority rules, but the people answer to the king

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elected governor of Plymouth 30 times

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``` Puritan many settlers fled England to escape persecution led by John Winthrop a theocracy "city upon a hill" run as a Bible Commonwealth economy based on lumber, fish, and fur ```

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preached antinomianism (extreme predestination)

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called for the separation of church and state and better treatment of the Indians for this he was forced to take his followers and leave founded Rhode Island

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No taxes or oaths to the Church all men granted simple manhood suffrage called the sewer and the state of the independent man

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the early constitution of Connecticut based on the teachings of John Locke model of the U.S. constitution

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economy based on fish, trade, granite | part of Massachusetts but broken off by Charles II

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an agreement of colonies in New England to aid each other with basic problems such as escaped slaves and defense against the Dutch, French, and Indians

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founded in 1686 created by the British so that they could further enforce their laws of mercantilism Sir Edmund Andros headed this

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leader of the New England Dominion

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formed by the Dutch with no intention of giving its people religious toleration, free speech, and democratic practices very aristocratic and cosmopolitan taken over by the English, but the Dutch left a cultural impact including Harlem, Brooklyn, Hell gate, Easter Eggs, Santa Claus, waffles, Sauerkraut, bowling, sleighing, skating, and golf

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the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam

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originally called the religious society of friends when formed George Fox belived in the doctrine of the inner light, that all men were created equal (did not dock hats to aristocrats) pacifists

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founded Pennsylvania to be a Quaker haven | did not want Pennsylvania to be named after him

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formed in 1664 when the Duke of York gave it to one of his loyal men became a royal colony

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the main population of the South due to the Headright Act and how labor intensive tobacco was generally indentured for 4 to 7 years had a higher social status than slaves usually paid some money and given land at end of service

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Nathaniel Bacon, an indentured servant who upon finishing his service receives no money and barely any land because Governor Berkeley limited land expansion, leads a rebellion of indentured servants this showed landowners that they needed a new form of labor

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the Portuguese were the original slave traders who would comb the coast for slaves, but RI, the English, and the Dutch would also participate Africans would sell African POWs from tribal wars to slave traders slave ships had a 20% mortality rate

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founded Quebec

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the first of the French and Indian Wars

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longer life expectancy (reached as high as 70), adding grandparents to the average family farming families common for women to marry young, men to marry old people worked until dark, slept until dusk farming communities needed lots of children to work on the farm so the population grew rapidly

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came into existence in the late 1600s when the Puritans began to lose their religious fervor to combat this the church began offering half memberships to the children of members to where they could receive baptism without becoming full members or communion

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some young girls in Salem, MA, were accused of being witches during the late 1600s. this led to mass hysteria and spread through the colonies and eventually to Europe the first even to start in America and spread to Europe

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consisted of a town square containing a village green, a well, stocks, and a meeting house people were required to go to church on sundays

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prayer movement by the Holy Spirit a time when the people repented and came back to God the first American mass movement the denominations changed as new lights took over Ivy league universities were formed for the education of the clergy

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evangelical preacher during the Great Awakening, founded Methodism

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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

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the West Indies would send America sugar America would send molasses to Africa Africa would send rum (and slaves) to America this trade broke English mercantilism laws

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1773 English forbade the trade of molasses

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prime minister of England organizer of victory the grand commoner

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a Catholic group of missionaries and educators formed after the Reformation

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when the British kick the French off their territory the Acadians move to Louisiana

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``` a place to stay while traveling usually 8 beds to a common room food drink entertainment slowly brought about unification ```

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1763 passed after the French and Indian War | stated that American settlers may not make any settlements West of the Appalachian Mountains

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the economic belief that to be a powerful nation-state you must export more than you import driven by colonies

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the Prime Minister of Britain who passed the navigation acts to pay for the debt from the French and Indian War

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the most vilified of all the navigation acts in order to have proof of sale you needed to buy a stamp this lead to the cry "no taxation without representation" the colonists responded to this with an agreement of non-consumption of British goods eventually repealed

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terrorist group created to intimidate or harass anyone involved with the stamp act

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created the Townshend Acts that were taxes on luxury itmes | the revenue from these acts payed the governor's salaries which enraged the people

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March 5, 1770: a group of townspeople started to harass a redcoat soon more redcoats began to show up then a soldier slipped and fired his gun and all the men fire 11 casualties John Adams defends the British soldiers used for propaganda by Paul Revere

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prime minister of Britain who repealed the Townshend Acts with the exception of the tea tax

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spread propaganda starting in Boston then spread throughout the colonies

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Boston Port closed restriction on town meets any situation that involves a British soldier will be settled in London Quebec Act: French customs were to be upheld (Protestants consider this an attack on their beliefs)

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the British fired on Americans while looking for John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and the militia weapons

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Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold take Ft. Ticonderoga, stealing artillery and bringing it back to Boston

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when the British take Boston, the rebels set up at Bunker Hill and when the British march on the hill they are dealt serious casualties

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wrote the article "Common Sense" about why America needs freedom from Britain

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pro-British

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pro-freedom

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won Saratoga, almost took Canada, took down the British 3-pronged attack, felt like he never got the promotions he deserved, given command of West Point, corrupted by Peggy Shippen, put in contact with British Spy, John Andre, betrayed America at West Point, joins British army

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the most important battle in the revolution Horatio Gates defeated the last of the British 3-pronged attack, Burgoyne this was when America proved they could defeat Britain in a battle

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the French wanted revenge on Britain and America for trade | it was America's only entangling alliance until the 20th century

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defended the West front while the war went on

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sunk the Serapis, which boosted morale

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a popular practice by many colonists, put pressure on Britain by attacking merchant ships hurting the British economy

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a soldier in the revolution who returned home from the war to see that he could not afford to keep his farm so he and several other former soldiers form a rebellion. Caused Massachusetts to pass debt relief laws

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written in 1777 took four years to be passed because the colonies could not agree on what to do with Western land. It called for the US to be more of a league of friendship. Called for a very weak congress, a figurehead president, juries at the state level, to pass anything in congress a 2/3 vote is required unanimous for amendments, no coining money or regulating commerce, could ask for taxes but not collect them. “The articles of confusion”. Without the Articles of Confederation the current government would not exist and it was a stepping-stone toward the constitution

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The Western territory was given to the Government to be sold. The land was divided into 32nds and every 16th square was used for public education

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Each new territory when it reached 60,000 people could write its own state constitution, submit it to congress and apply for statehood

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established an economic plan called the trickle down plan. Proposed to fund the debt at par, propose the federal government pay the state debt to get the people to be more loyal and tied to the federal government. Virginia already paid there debt so they were repaid by having the capital in their state. Proposed an excise tax and a tariff to protect US industry and raise money. Proposed a bank of the US. Thomas Jefferson hates the plan. George Washington supported Hamilton’s plan forming the political parties and splitting the nation North/South

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a student of government and the father of the constitution

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House of Representatives by population, Senate equal

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bicameral legislature both houses done by population

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one house equal number of representatives from each state

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each slave would count as 3/5 of a person when determining how many members of the Electoral College each state will receive

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the 1st 10 Amendments

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the government may make laws to carry out the powers given to the government in the Constitution

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1st president, unanimous pick, formed presidential cabinet

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2nd president, bitter rival of Thomas Jefferson

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a negotiator of the treaty of Paris, negotiated another treaty with Britain. Citizen Genet- a 30-year-old representative of the French Republic. Landed in Charleston with the intention of finding privateers to take advantage of the French-American Alliance, he believed the neutrality proclamation did not reflect the American opinion. He recruited armies to invade Spanish Florida, Louisiana, and British Canada, he was eventually deported

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the French leader during the French Revolution

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X Y and Z were 3 French agents who demanded a ridiculous bribe just to let the Americans talk to Talleyrand. The American diplomats refused and were hailed as heroes for it

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the alien acts were when Federalists raised the residence requirements from 4 to 14 years a laws that violated the traditional American policy of hospitality and speedy assimilation and deport aliens during times of peace and jail them during times of war. The Sedition Act was a law that aimed at newspaper editors and Jeffersonians stating that anyone who impeded the policies of the government or defamed the government would be fined and jailed. Even though this was unconstitutional it passed because of the overwhelming majority of federalists in the senate

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The British began forcing their citizens into the navy. While at port many of these men would escape, sometimes onto American ships. So the English began impressing American soldiers and citizens in port towns

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two kinds 1) revenue tariff a lower tariff designed to gain revenue 2) protective tariff a higher tariff designed to protect industry

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Jay was sent to London in 1794 by Washington as a desperate gamble do avoid war. The Jeffersonians believed Jay would sell out the US because he was a federalist and an Anglophile. Jay was limited in his negotiations by Hamilton’s telling the British of Jay’s bargaining strategy. It resulted in the British promising to evacuate their posts in the US, pay damages for the seizure of US ships. The Americans had to pay their prerevolutionary debts to British merchants. This treaty enraged Jeffersonians because it seemed like a surrender to Britain. Southern planters had to pay debts to British merchants while rich Federalist shippers collected damages for British seizures

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a renaissance man interested in music and science. Three things he wanted to be remembered for 1) author of the declaration of independence 2) author of the statue of Virginia for religious freedom 3) father of the University of Virginia

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A treaty with Spain in 1795 that granted the US free navigation of the Mississippi River and North Florida. Without Jay’s failure this treaty would not have been possible, because the Spanish felt the US was getting too close to Britain

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Jefferson wrote a series of resolutions in Kentucky in secrecy to combat the Alien and Sedition Acts. Madison later drafted a similar but less extreme resolution that Virginia adopted. These resolutions stressed the compact theory stating that the 13 sovereign states in creating a Federal government had entered into a contract regarding its jurisdiction and therefore the federal government is a creation of the states and cannot be more powerful than its creator

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signed at Ft. Greenville between the Native Americans and Western Frontiersmen after the Battle of Fallen Timbers. It put an end to the Northwest Indian War

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after the Louisiana Purchase Thomas Jefferson Commissions Lewis and Clark to explore the new territory, the group they bring with them is called the Corps of Discovery. They mapped land, drew interesting features, sent animals back to DC, and signed treaties with Indians, stake claim to Oregon

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Chief Justice (a midnight judge) appointed by John Adams. Kept federalist ideas and practices alive years after the party dies

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plotted to have NE secede, but was exposed by Hamilton, who he shot in a duel

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Marbury was a midnight judge but before his commission could be given to him Adams’ term ended. Madison now the president never gives Marbury his commission. Marshall refuses to give verdict because Marbury lacked original jurisdiction. Establishes judicial review

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led slave revolt in Haiti. As a result of Haiti gaining its independence, Napoleon was willing to sell Louisiana because its only purpose was to grow food for slaves

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During the War between France and Britain the US began not buying or selling any goods to Britain or France to cause the war to end sooner. Many New Englanders broke the embargo and smuggled goods to Britain. Embargo only works if whole nation committed for a long time. Embargo hurt the US economy

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a new generation of Congressmen including Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun with new energy, plans, and hope for greatness in their generation and very nationalistic and patriotic

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the great compromiser

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Caused by the war hawks wanting to have a chance to fight Britain, War hawks wanting Canada, the Congress being mostly JDR pro-French and anti-British, and impressment. The US was not ready for a war. The federalists were the ones being impressed and they were still against the war. The invasion of Canada was a total failure. Thomas McDonough saved NY. NE continued to trade with Britain throughout the war. The white house was burned. The end result of the war was status quo antebellum. This war was the end of the Federalist Party as a result of the Hartford Convention. Bolstered manufacturing, boosted nationalism, exposed sectionalism, allowed the US to assert its dominance over the Indians

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wrote the star spangled banner while watching Ft. McHenry get shelled by British artillery

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gained popularity as an Indian fighter and from the Battle of New Orleans

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a protective tariff allowing eastern manufacturing to flourish, a strong banking system, revenues from the tariff would pay for a network of roads and canals. These roads and canals would allow foodstuffs and raw materials from the South and west to be transported to the North and finished products back to the South and West. This would knit the nation closer together economically and politically. This resonated well with the people because they remembered Canada was lost due to a lack of roads. Vetoed by Madison, because Madison believed that the states should pay for their own improvements

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this stated that the money from the tariff would go to pay for Clay’s American System

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brought deflation, depression, bankruptcies, unemployment, and overcrowded debtor’s prison. 1st national financial panic. Was a result of overspeculation of frontierland, was a setback to the national pride frenzy. When the panic hit the BUS the wildcat banks were forced to the wall and the mortgages on countless farms were foreclosed. This caused the Western debtors to view the BUS as a financial devil. This sewed the seeds of Jacksonian democracy

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a plan created to isolate slavery in the South that would slowly bring about its death. Passed in House but not in the Senate

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Missouri comes in a slave state, take Massachusetts cut off part and make it Maine, a free state, and every state north of the 36 30 line is free every state South is a slave state

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Maryland put a tax on the federal bank. The president of the BUS in Maryland sues. Marshall says power to tax involves the power to destroy. The power to create involves the power to preserve. The BUS is constitutional based on the elastic clause McMulloch wins. This makes the Federal Government supreme

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Cohens was illegally selling lottery tickets. Cohens appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. Every other court found him guilty. Marshall found him innocent. Establishes the supremacy of the Supreme Court

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Ogden given a Monopoly of trade across the Hudson. Gibbons sues. Interstate commerce is controlled by commerce the Supreme Court cannot settle this case

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Georgia sold $35 million of land but later the deal was found to be illegal Marshall protects the people’s property rights

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With Great Britain negotiated by John Quincy Adams. Resulted in the two sharing fishing ground with Canada, 49th parallel as border, share Oregon for 10 years

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U.S. gets Florida. Spain gets $5 million

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1823 | closed European colonization in Western Hemisphere

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less formal (no powdered wigs from Monroe on), more about the people, fewer limitations on people voting, more people affiliating themselves with parties, more aggressive campaigning, and nominating now done by the people

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historian who wrote about frontier life in the late 1800s early 1900s

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this was the election that began to break up the JDRs. Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and William Crawford. Andrew Jackson gets the most votes but not a majority so Henry Clay is eliminated and the House of Representatives vote. Henry Clay, the speaker of the house, was seen talking to JQA then night before. JQA voted president Clay made speaker of the house this was the corrupt bargain. John C Calhoun would’ve been VP no matter who won

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Andrew Jackson supporters propose an obscenely high tariff (45%) on British wool hoping that JQA would refuse it. Since the tariff would help the North, where JQA’s supporters were JQA accepted the tariff. Furthers sectionalism

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more people started voting not just the affluent. This was representative of more people and power moving west. Also lots of mudslinging happened in this election between JQA and Andrew Jackson

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started with Andrew Jackson and his belief that the government needed new blood when he came in. It led to a rotation of offices every time a new president came into office. Pros: new ideas, no disillusioned office holders. Cons: need to train new officers, hurt quality of officers, corruption can come from this when presidents only pick people who voted for them

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Andrew Jackson’s unofficial advisors, some called this unconstitutional

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1830 Senator Hayne of South Carolina argued for cheap land using Calhoun’s anti-tariff argument for support and referred to the possibility of nullification. Webster argued that the union was dissoluble and sovereign over the states

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Peggy O’Neal marries Officer Timberlake. Timberlake commits suicide, because he is not granted leave. Peggy marries the Secretary of War Eaton. Becomes a scandal because Eaton could’ve granted Timberlake leave but didn’t. The wives of the other Cabinet members begin to gossip about it. Andrew Jackson fires all the cabinet members whose wives gossiped. Calhoun resigned because of this, ran for South Carolina Senate and led the movement for the Civil War

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Calhoun and Barnwell Rhett led the movement and stated that states that suffered from the tariff had the right to nullify the law within their borders. Calhoun wanted to use nullification to save the union. Rhett wanted to use it for secession. Jackson argued that the union was a single nation not a league of states. The final resolution was postponed until 1861 when the South seceded

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Andrew Jackson hated the bank, because he blamed it for the loss of his mansion in the panic of 1819. Andrew Jackson killed the bank by putting US money in his “ pet banks”

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Jackson vetoed a road in Kentucky between Maysville and Lexington to spite Clay

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set up by Andrew Jackson to deal with Indian problems. | Trail of tears- After the US bought the Cherokee land in 1835 the Indians migrated to Mississippi 4,000 Cherokees died

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Stephen F. Austin gained permission from Mexico to bring 300 families into Texas. Many people came from Tennessee and many came to escape their old lives. The families that moved to Texas had to follow Mexican laws and become Catholic. There was much tension between Mexico and Texas due to slavery and illegal immigration. When Santa Ana become dictator he demanded a proof of faith and taxed immigrants heavily. SFA went to Santa Ana to argue about these things and was jailed for it. After that Texas claimed independence and declared Sam Houston commander in chief. Goliad and Alamo were two inspiring battles. During the Alamo Houston ran away with most of the troops in the runaway scrape. At San Jacinto the Texans butcher the Mexicans and claim independence. Texas was not annexed for 8 years because they did not want to be annexed in an election year or during a panic

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election due to Andrew Jackson’s support. In a no win situation because he came after Andrew Jackson. Lots of bad luck during presidency such as panic of 1837, Hessian fly

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Harrison the Whig, Vanburen the Democrat. One writer said that Harrison was born in a log cabin and drank hard cider. Harrison played it to his advantage

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(1814-1860) TRIC- happened late in the US due to lack of labor because the US was an agricultural nation. Transformed agricultural production and methods of transportation and communication. Textile production increased with new machinery and the invention of the cotton gin. The railroad was built out of iron and powered by coal. Steamboats also powered by coal were important to driving the industrial revolution

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father of the factory system in America, escaped from Britain to America after having memorized how to build the British machine for spinning cotton thread

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invented the mechanical mower reaper in the 1830’s. The mower-reaper turned subsistence farmers into businessmen producing a surplus that they could sell. These farmers looking for a market to sell their crops saw the South/North driving the transportation revolution. The mower reaper was to Westerners what the Cotton gin was to Southerners

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a relentless foe of slavery and public corruption who contributed greatly to the elevation of American Political life

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invented the steamboat. The steamboat was able to go against the current on rivers making two-way river traffic possible a huge part of the transportation revolution and drove the industrial revolution

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The governor of New York who led the digging of the Erie Canal. This Canal caused the price of shipping from Buffalo to NYC to go from $100 to $5 and time of transit from 20 days to 6 days

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aided in the concentration of capital by permitting the individual investor in cases of legal claims or bankruptcy to risk no more than his own share of the corporation’s stock

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began in 1830 as a result of the East’s desire to tap the resources of the West. Bound the states closer together. Transformed the economy by alloweing shipments to be delivered easier quicker and cheaper

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Occurred during the 1840s-50s when many Germans and Irish immigrated to America many of whom were Catholic. Many older stock Americans believed that the alien riffraff would establish the Catholic Church and overthrow the protestant church. The Americans formed the know nothing party they agitated for rigid restrictions on immigration and eventually began burning Catholic Churches

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a widespread cultural creed that glorified the customary functions of the homemaker. Married women commanded immense moral power and made decisions that altered the character of the family itself

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becomes president after Harrison dies, vetoes any banking, and tariffs. Vetoes more than any other president because he was a Whig with a democratic senate

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“Our Manifest Destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions- John L. O’Sullivan. The Americans believed that God had destined them to spread democracy and Christianity across North America

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The British tried to build a road through a disputed area of land in Maine. The lumberjacks in the area began to fight the road builders. To settle this Lord Ashburton met with Webster. Each man went to look for the original map. Each one’s map said that the other country contained more land than originally thought. They come to a compromise quickly as a result and never knowing whose map was correct. The US also gained the Mesabi iron ore in Minnesota from this deal

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Henry Clay the Whig vs. Polk the Democrat. Polk was nicknamed young hickory. Polk was very direct in giving his 4 points, whereas Clay came off as very indecisive because he was a compromiser. Polk won. Tyler the lame duck president took Polk’s winning as a mandate to take Texas

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1) get Oregon “54 40 or fight” 2) Get California 3) lower the tariff 4) create an independent treasury

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Mexico provoked the US by refusing to meet with John Slidell, the US ambassador about buying California. Polk decided he would push Mexico on the Texas issue by moving the US troops to the Nueces River (The Mexico recognized border) then to the Rio Grande River (The US recognized border). Polk declares war on Mexico on the claim that an American was killed on American soil. Zachary Taylor invades Mexico from the disputed area while Winfield Scott invades Mexico City from Veracruz. Stephen Kearney takes Santa Fe. While this is going on John C. Fremont started a revolt in California declaring California independent until the war is over. The Americans take Santa Ana from Cuba and make him the dictator of Mexico thinking that he will give the US California and Mexico. Santa Ana immediately declares war on the US. In conclusion 1800 US men died, the US gained land, the US troops were trained for the civil war, changed the British view of America, annoyed the rest of south America, and the question of whether or not the new territory should be slave or free arises

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Nicholas Trist (a secretary who just happened to be the only person in the white house who spoke Spanish) was sent as a foreign minister to Mexico. US gets California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas border at the Rio Grande. Mexico gets $15 and the US would cover the debt Mexico owed them

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none of the Mexican cession becomes slave land passed in House but not Senate

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Van Buren was Free Soil, which believed that there should be no more slave land. Zachary Taylor was a Whig, whose strategy was to ignore slavery. Lexis Cass was a Democrat he was called the father of the popular sovereignty. Zachary Taylor wins

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started the Underground Railroad freed around 300 slaves. Her husband refused to go with her to freedom. This would be used as an argument that slaves need to be in slavery and cannot function without it

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Gold was 1st found on Sutter’s farm in 1849. The gold rush made the people who provided service to the 49ers rich not the 49ers themselves for the most part

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a passionate Abolitionist who promised irrepressible conflict on the horizon and said that there was a higher law than the constitution. He said both of these while trying to be elected president and still almost won

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A last ditch effort by Henry Clay to save the union. California would become a free state. Texas would give up their disputed land for $10 million. New Mexico and Utah were granted popular sovereignty. Slave trade was outlawed in DC. Tougher fugitive slave laws were enforced. Zachary Taylor vetoed this but died of spoiled milk and the next day Millard Fillmore signs it

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set up Kansas and Nebraska as states and gave them popular sovereignty

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US navy officer who is responsible for opening Japan to trade and imperialism

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negotiated the purchase of the land from Mexico that the Transcontinental Railroad would run through

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people decide whether a state is free or slave

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