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AP US HISTORY NCS# 401-450
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10/26/2009

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Election of 1824
Definition
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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 "Corrupt Bargain"
Definition
 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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Panama Conference
Definition
o discuss commercial treaties, adopt a code of international law, and arrive at a common Latin American policy toward Spain.
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 Tariff of Abominations
Definition
 raised the tariff on imported manufactured goods.
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Vice-President Calhoun
Definition
anonymously published the essay South Carolina Exposition
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Jacksonian Revolution of 1828
Definition
the revolution of the "Common Man".
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Age of the Common Man
Definition
Jackson's presidency
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Jacksonian Democracy
Definition
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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Franchise extended
Definition
more people were given the right to vote, even men who owned no land.
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Spoils system
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the winner of the election may do whatever they want with the staff.
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National Republicans

Definition
 joined John Q. Adams, Clay, and Daniel Webster to oppose Andrew Jackson.
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Caucus System
Definition
candidates were elected by small, secretive party groups and the public had little say in the process.
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Nation Nominating Conventions
Definition
delegates voted on the results of a primary.
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Kitchen Cabinet
Definition
A small group of Jackson's friends and advisors who were especially influential in the first years of his presidency.
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"Trail of Tears"
Definition
evicted them from their homes in Georgia and moved them to Oklahoma Indian country
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Worchester v. Georgia
Definition
The Supreme Court decided Georgia had no jurisdiction over Cherokee reservations.
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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Definition
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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Whigs
Definition
were conservatives and popular with pro-Bank people and plantation owners.
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Maysville Road Veto
Definition
proposed building a road in Kentucky (Clay's state) at federal expense.
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Election of 1832
Definition
Andrew Jackson (Democrat) ran for re-election with V.P. Martin Van Buren.
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Anti-Masonic Party
Definition
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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Bank Recharter Bill
Definition
The Bank of the United States was chartered by Congress in 1791
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Nicholas Biddle
Definition
became the bank's president.
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Veto message
Definition
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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Roger B. Taney
Definition
was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and helped Jackson crush the Bank of the U.S
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pet bank
Definition
were state banks into which Jackson deposited federal funds
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 Loco-Focos
Definition
were Democrats who wanted reform and opposed tariffs, banks, monopolies, and other places of special privilege.
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Peggy Eaton Affair
Definition
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
Definition
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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Nullification crisis
Definition
federal tariffs could be declared null and void by individual states and that they could refuse to enforce them.
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South Carolina Exposition and Pro
Definition
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
Definition
gradually reduced the rates levied under the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
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Force Bill
Definition
authorized President Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
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Martin Van Buren
Definition
rallied the factory workers of the North in support of Jackson. He became Jackson's V.P. after Calhoun resigned
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the Albany Regency
Definition
New York politics at that time was controlled by a clique of wealthy land-owners known as the
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Specie Circular
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
 the legal concept that private companies cannot injure the public welfare.
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 Panic of 1837
Definition
Bank of the U.S. failed, cotton prices fell, businesses went bankrupt, and there was widespread unemployment and distress.
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Dorr's Rebellion
Definition
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
Definition
Idea that federal government should have its own treasury; never put into practice.
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 Election of 1840
Definition
William Henry Harrison and V.P. John Tyler
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 Pre-emption Act, 1841
Definition
This was to help settlers who occupied land and improved it before surveys were done.
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Tariff of 1842
Definition
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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Transcendentalism
Definition
in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches.
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Transcendentalists
Definition
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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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Definition
Essayist, poet. A leading transcendentalist, emphasizing freedom and self-reliance in essays which still make him a force today.
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Henry David Thoreau
Definition
wrote Walden & essay, "On Civil Disobedience,"
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 Orestes Brownson
Definition
Presbyterian layman, Universalist minister, Unitarian preacher and founder of his own church in Boston.
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Margaret Fuller
Definition
Social reformer, leader in women's movement and a transcendentalist.
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The Dial
Definition
which was the puplication of the transcendentalists.
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James Fenimore Cooper
Definition
American novelist wrote "The Spy" and "The Pioneers"
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James Fenimore Cooper, "Last of the Mohicans"
Definition
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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Herman Melville
Definition
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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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Definition
Originally a transcendentalist; later rejected them and became a leading anti-trascendentalist. He was a descendant of Puritan settlers.
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