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Jackson did not have a majority in the electoral vote, so the election went to the House of Representatives, where Adams won. |
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charge make by Jacksonians in 1825 that Clay had supported John Quincy Adams in the House presidential vote in return for the office of Secretary of State. |
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o discuss commercial treaties, adopt a code of international law, and arrive at a common Latin American policy toward Spain. |
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raised the tariff on imported manufactured goods. |
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anonymously published the essay South Carolina Exposition |
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the revolution of the "Common Man". |
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included many reforms: free public schools, more women's rights, better working conditions in factories, and the rise of the Abolition movement. |
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more people were given the right to vote, even men who owned no land. |
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the winner of the election may do whatever they want with the staff. |
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joined John Q. Adams, Clay, and Daniel Webster to oppose Andrew Jackson. |
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candidates were elected by small, secretive party groups and the public had little say in the process. |
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Nation Nominating Conventions |
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delegates voted on the results of a primary. |
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A small group of Jackson's friends and advisors who were especially influential in the first years of his presidency. |
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evicted them from their homes in Georgia and moved them to Oklahoma Indian country |
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The Supreme Court decided Georgia had no jurisdiction over Cherokee reservations. |
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia |
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The Supreme Court ruled that Indians weren't independent nations but dependent domestic nations which could be regulated by the federal government. |
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were conservatives and popular with pro-Bank people and plantation owners. |
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proposed building a road in Kentucky (Clay's state) at federal expense. |
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Andrew Jackson (Democrat) ran for re-election with V.P. Martin Van Buren. |
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sprang up as a reaction to the perceived elitism of the Masons, and the new party took votes from the Whigs, helping Jackson to win the election. |
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The Bank of the United States was chartered by Congress in 1791 |
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became the bank's president. |
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said that the bank was a monopoly that catered to the rich, and that it was owned by the wealthy and by foreigners. |
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was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and helped Jackson crush the Bank of the U.S |
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were state banks into which Jackson deposited federal funds |
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were Democrats who wanted reform and opposed tariffs, banks, monopolies, and other places of special privilege. |
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cabinet members snubbed the socially unacceptable Mrs. Eaton. Jackson sided with the Eatons, and the affair helped to dissolve the cabinet |
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South opposes protective tariffs |
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strongly opposed protective tariffs like the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832, and protested by asserting that enforcement of the tariffs could be prohibited by individual states, and by refusing to collect tariff duties. |
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federal tariffs could be declared null and void by individual states and that they could refuse to enforce them. |
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called a convention in 1832 and passed an ordinance forbidding collection of tariff duties in the state. |
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Compromise Tariff of 1833 |
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gradually reduced the rates levied under the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. |
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authorized President Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. |
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rallied the factory workers of the North in support of Jackson. He became Jackson's V.P. after Calhoun resigned |
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New York politics at that time was controlled by a clique of wealthy land-owners known as the |
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was meant to stop land speculation caused by states printing paper money without proper specie (gold or silver) backing it. |
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Charles River Bridge Decision |
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modified C.J. Marshall's ruling in the Darmouth College Case of 1819, which said that a state could not make laws infringing on the charters of private organizations. |
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General Incooperation Laws |
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the legal concept that private companies cannot injure the public welfare. |
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Bank of the U.S. failed, cotton prices fell, businesses went bankrupt, and there was widespread unemployment and distress. |
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led a group of rebels who wrote a new constitution and elected him governor in 1842 of Rhode Island |
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Independent Treasury Plan |
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Idea that federal government should have its own treasury; never put into practice. |
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William Henry Harrison and V.P. John Tyler |
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This was to help settlers who occupied land and improved it before surveys were done. |
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protective tariff signed by President John Tyler, it raised the general level of duties to about where they had been before the Compromise Tariff of 1833. |
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in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. |
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Believed in Transcendentalism, they included Emerson (who pioneered the movement) and Thoreau. Many of them formed cooperative communities such as Brook Farm and Fruitlands |
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Essayist, poet. A leading transcendentalist, emphasizing freedom and self-reliance in essays which still make him a force today. |
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wrote Walden & essay, "On Civil Disobedience," |
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Presbyterian layman, Universalist minister, Unitarian preacher and founder of his own church in Boston. |
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Social reformer, leader in women's movement and a transcendentalist. |
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which was the puplication of the transcendentalists. |
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American novelist wrote "The Spy" and "The Pioneers" |
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James Fenimore Cooper, "Last of the Mohicans" |
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It is about a scout named Hawkeye during the French and Indian War, while he was in his prime. It is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, about a frontiersman and a noble Indian, and the clash between growing civilization and untamed wilderness. |
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Wrote Moby Dick (1851) about a Captain Ahab who seeks revenge on the white whale that crippled him but ends up losing his life, his ship, and his crew. |
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Originally a transcendentalist; later rejected them and became a leading anti-trascendentalist. He was a descendant of Puritan settlers. |
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