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| The cotton gin shortened the process of picking out the seeds in cotton. Invented by Eli Whitney. The cotton Gin also prolonged slavery due to the need for more slaves. |
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| Nationalism was basically just when Americans were proud of their nation and proud to be an American. Due to the unification and togetherness this point in time was nicknamed the era of good feelings. |
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| The Adams-Onis Treaty was the purchase of the states Florida and Oregon from their previous owner Spain. |
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| The system invented by Henry Clay which focused on the improvements of canals and roads, Protective Tariffs and established the second bank of the United States. |
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| The Monroe Doctrine was basically a threat to the powers of Europe not to mess with the United States. |
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| Sectionalism was basically the ending of the era of good feelings and the overall ending of the short moment of unity America once had. |
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| Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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| The Missouri Compromise was basically the division of the regions that are slave states and the ones that aren't. The south were slave states and the north were free states. |
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| The panic of 1819 was America's first economical depression. |
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| McCulloch vs Maryland(1819) |
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| The case of McCulloch vs Maryland decided that a national bank was in fact constitutional. |
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| The election of 1812 consisted of the candidates John Adams and Andrew Jackson.Andrew Jackson lost the election due to Henry Clay convincing congress to vote for Adams which Jackson believed was unfair and he called it a corrupt bargain. |
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| Corrupt Bargain was what Andrew Jackson accused John Adams of due to the fact that Henry Clay heavily assisted John Adams in winning the election of 1824. |
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| The tariff of abominations was a tariff that John Adams signed that benefited northern trading but hurt the southern region so therefore the south labeled it the Tariff of Abominations. |
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| Jacksonian Democracy was a democracy run by The new president Andre Andrew Jackson. He made it possible for white male non-Landowners to vote this was called Universal manhood suffrage. |
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| The spoils system was created by Andrew Jackson because he chose who he wanted to be in his presidential cabinet. |
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| The democrats is the political party that was created by Andrew Jackson. |
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| Whigs was the nickname for the national republicans who were the enemies the democratic party. |
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| The Nullification Crisis was the beginning of the separation between the North and the South because of the tariffs that were making life difficult for southerners. The south warned that they would completely separate themselves from the north if the tariffs stuck around. Eventually Andrew Jackson sent troops to threaten the southerners and later on they reached a compromise. |
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| John C. Calhoun was the seventh vice president of the united states. He was the former vice president for Andrew Jackson and is known for his defense against slavery and the south. He resigned from his vice presidency when he believed did not agree with Jackson's actions against the south. |
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