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| A British-born shoemaker who urged workers in Philadelphia to unite and form their own political party. |
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| Philadelphia Working Men's Party (1828) |
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| Elected local officials and voted for Andrew Jackson. Attacked banking system in 1829. |
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| Jackson refused to renew the charter of the Bank of The United States |
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| Colonel leader of Mexico who served as emperor a little more than a year and was overthrown and executed by the army. |
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| Political party formed in the 1820's under the leadership of Andrew Jackson; favored states' rights and a limited role for the federal government |
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| Jackson's secretary of state 1829-37. |
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| Sectional crisis in the early 1830s in which a states' rights party in South Carolina atttempted to nullify federal lawof the tariff that placed duty on imported goods. Most serious threat to national unity the U.S. had experienced. |
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| President Andrew Jackson's measure that allowed state officials to override federal protection of Native Americans |
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| The forced march in 1838 of the Cherokee Indians from their homelands in Georgia to the Indian Territory in the West |
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| The name used by the advocates of colonial resistance to British measures during the 1760s and 1770s.Opponents of Jackson. |
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| Proclamation issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 stipulating that only gold or silver would be used as payment for public land |
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| A six year recession caused by sharp contraction of credit. 800 banks suspended business leading to business closures. Unemployment rate was more than 10%. |
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| Second American Party System |
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| The basic pattern of American politics od two parties, each with appeal among voters of all social voters and in all sections of the country. Whigs and Democrats. |
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| Elected President in 1840. Whigs Party. Former governor of the Indiana Territory from 1801-12. Hero of the War of 1812. |
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| Vice president of Harrison. Soon became president after Harrison died of pneomonia. Was neither a democrat nor a whig. Had been a Democrat in the past. |
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| First organized to elect Andrew Jackson to te precidency in 1828. The Democratic Party spoke for Jeffersonian democracy, expansion, and the freedom of the "common man" from interference from the government or from financial monopolies like the Bank of the United States. It found its power base in the rural South and West among some northern urban workers. The Democratic Party was the majority party from 1828 to 1860. |
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| Organized in opposition to Andrew Jackson int he early 1830s. Heir to Federalism, the Whig Party favored a strong role for the national government in the economy (for example it promoted Henry Clay's American System) and supported active social reform. Its power base layed in the North and the Old Northwest among voters who benefited from increased commercialism and among some southern planter and urban merchants. The Whigs won the election of 1840 and 1848. |
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| "The American Scholar" which he delivered in 1837 to the Harvard faculty. |
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