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| This area was invaded by Andrew Jackson without permission because the Seminole Indians were hiding escaped slaves there. It was owned by Spain at the time, but Spain agreed to give it to the U.S. as part of the Adams-Onis Treaty. |
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| President James Monroe tells the rest of the world that any new colonies in the western hemisphere would not be permitted by the U.S. The U.S. does not have the right or power to do this, but Britain backs us up in exchange for some trade there. |
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| Missouri Compromise (1820) |
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| Deals with the question of the expansion of slavery in the west. Missouri would come into the Union as a slave state, Maine would be free, and any areas North of Missouri's southern border in the LA Purchase would be free, below Missouri would be slave territories. Later overruled by the Dred Scott decision. |
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| Man-made rivers to improve transportation. |
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| Built by Governor DeWitt Clinton, this NY canal stretched from Albany to Buffalo and mad it possible to ship goods via water from Europe to the American Midwest. |
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| Building these was a major focus of the U.S. to improve transportation in the early 1800s. |
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| One term president (1824-1828) who accomplished very little. |
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| Andrew Jackson as President |
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| Increased democracy in the U.S. by getting more and more average citizens the right to vote. Fought with the National Bank and the Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. |
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| A nickname given to Andrew Jackson for his lack of cooperation with the Constitution of the U.S. He violates the Constitution by ignoring judges in the Indian Removal Act and kills the National Bank. |
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| Idea that, when elected, a politician can hire new people to fill government jobs. often, these people are underqualified. Jackson was famous for this. |
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| This the debate over how much power a state has. Can a state chose to not follow federal law? What happens if a federal and state law conflict? The South feels that states should have more power than the federal government, whereas the North favors the federal government over the states. |
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| South Carolina threatened to leave the Union because of a high tariff set by Andrew Jackson. Can a state do this? At this point, the country is unsure. |
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| South Carolina Leads the Way for State's Rights |
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| S.C. threatens to leave the U.S. because of a high tariff passed by the federal government. The issue of state's rights would be a major cause of the Civil War. |
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| William Henry Harrison as President |
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| Shortest term of any President. Died of pneumonia after just six weeks of office (1841). He is the first victim of Tecumseh's Curse. |
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| A law supported by President Andrew Jackson, it forced all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to move west of the River. The Cherokee sued to keep their lands and won in Supreme Court (Worchester v. Georgia), but Jackson ignored the Court's decision. |
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| Created to assist in getting Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi. |
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| This journey by the Cherokee took the Native Amerians from their homelands in the Appalachian Mountains and forced them to move west to Indian Territory (modern day Oklahoma) at gunpoint. About 25% of the Cherokee died on the 800 mile trip. |
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| Among the brighest of all NAtive American tribes, the Cherokee sued the U.S. in Supreme Court for the lands in the Blue Ridge Mountains and won. However, the were forcibly removed anyway during the Trail of Tears. |
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| The Seminole Indians of the Florida Everglades allowed escaped slaves to live among them. The U.S. attacked. The Seminole managed to fight off the U.S. attacks three times over a 40 year peroid in the mid-1800s. |
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