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Unit 2: Era of Good Feelings
APUSH unit two
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History
11th Grade
10/13/2012

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Convention of 1818
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agreement between US and UK making the 49th parallel the border to the rockey mountains, red river basin is given to America, Oregon river basin = joint occupation
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Daniel Webster
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helped a lot in the many supreme court cases
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Dartmouth vs Woodward
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1819 can the state change a private school into a public school? court decided no, it is unconstitutional
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Fletcher vs Peck
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1810 can a state pass legislation invalidating a contract? no it is unconstitutional
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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Florida goes to US for 5 million
firms up the Mexican American border
Americans give up land claims in Texas
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Gibbons vs ogden
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1821 - are monopolies legal? can NY grant a monopoly to a steamboat co. if action conflicted with another charter authorized by congress? NOPE!
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Henry clay's american system
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Second BUS
Protective Tariff of 1816
IIFX
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James Fenmore Cooper
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Last of the Mohicans. setting in American frontier
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McCulloch vs Maryland
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1819 Did congress have the power to creat the BUS? Can a state impose a tax on a federal bank? Yes and then No Federal gov't is in control of interstate trade.
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Missouri compromise
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Missouri applies to become a slave state: clay proposes that Maine splits and becomes a free state, Missouri is a slave state, 36 30 line above is free below is slave
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Monroe doctrine
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Warning to all eastern hemisphere that the western hemisphere is belongs to us so don't mess with it! (except what is already claimed) Reps Americans Confidence
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Martin vs Hunter's Lessee
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1816
does SC have jurisdiction over state courts in cases about constitutional rights? Nope
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Panic of 1819
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Second BUS fault = made it harder to get credit and took some of the loans back that were given out --> caused state banks to close, inflation, increase in unemployment, foreclosed western farms
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Parson Weems
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wrote American literature, Washington and the Cherry Tree
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Rush-Baggot Agreement
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British and Americans agree to disarm both sides of the great lakes
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Stephan Decatur
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Sent a small fleet to the Barbury states and they never mess with us again
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Tallmadge Amendment
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Penn says every slave is freed after 25 years, no new ones are brought in, causes a talk of succession
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Denmark Vesey
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rebellion in 1822
gave hope to enslaved AAs
tightened slave codes
north realized evils of slavery
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Trumbell/Stuart/Peale
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Major artists, war paintings, portraits, famous americans
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Washington Irving
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Wrote legend of sleepy hollow and Rip Van Wrinkle. America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, argued for stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement.
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