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Articles of confederation

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Before the constitution, 1777, ultimately failed

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Land ordinance of 1785

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Old northwest should be sold to pay off debt

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Northwest ordinance

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Northwest Territories gave gov land to be sectioned off the citizens

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Great compromise

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Called for representation by pop. In house and equal in senate

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Society of the Cincinnati

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Continental Army officers

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Quakers

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Founded the first anti slavery society

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Civic virtue

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Democracy depended on unselfish commitment of each citizen

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Republican motherhood

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Mothers were devoted to their family’s

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Henery knox

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Secretary of war

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Bill of rights

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Written by James Madison

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Juicary act

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Fed court system making the sumoreme court

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Bank of the US

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Print own money and make a national currency

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Whiskey rebellion

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Distillers strongly opposed the whiskey tax and it was put down by wash

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Neutrality proclamation

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Nuetraity to the Britain and France war

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Battle of fallin timbers

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British would not help feeing Indians

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Treaty of greenville

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Indians gave up a lot of land to US

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John jay

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Chief Justice chosen to negotiate

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Jays treaty

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Britain said they would leave the posts in the US and pay for damaged ships

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Pinckney’s treaty

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Spain granted Americans free navigation of the Mississippi

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Dictator from France

Convinced king of Spain to give Louisiana area to France

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Alien laws

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Raised requirements for aliens

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Warhawks

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Wanted war

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Naturalization law

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Reduced the requirement of 14 years to 5

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Albert Gallatin

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Sectetory of tres to Jeff

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Judiciary act of 1801

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Created 16 new judges

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James Madison

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New sec of state

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Lausana purchase

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We got the land from France with natgaotioan

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General James Wilkinson

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Corrupt military gov of Louisiana territory

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Orders in council

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Closed ports under France controls

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Chesapeake affair

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Brit ship attacked ours

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The embargo

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Banned exportation of any good to any country’s

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War of 1812

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Americans tried to invade Canada and fought off by Canadians

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Oliver hazard Perry

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Captured a British fleet on Lake Erie

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Francis Scott key

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Wrote the star spangled banner

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Andrew Jackson

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Defeated New Orleans

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Treaty of Ghent

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France and us stopped fighting

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Hartford Conventions

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Finachal assistsnse from wash, 2/3 got for anything to go through Congress, no slavery, no 3/5

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Nationalism

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Expansion and unity

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Henry clay

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Created a plan or the us economy

Introduced a compromise that would decide weather or not Missouri would be a solace for free state

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American system

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Stint banking system, protective tariff, network of roads and canals

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James monroe

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Sent to Paris by Jeff. to buy as much land as he could for 10mil

Won election and this started the period era of good feelings

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Panic of 1819

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First financial panic (over speculation)

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Talladge amendment

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For difficult for missiori to become a state

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Peculiar insition

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Expression used to describe slavery and its economic impact

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Missouri compromise

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Missouri was now a slave state

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John Marshall

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Said bank was constitutional

Chief Justice was a Federalist Judge under Jeff.

Allowed the state I give the acres to private spectators

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John Quincy Adams

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Sec of state to Monroe

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Amgle-American convention

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Allowed Americans to share new found fisheries with Canada

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Florida purchase treaty

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Spanish gave Florida to US

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Monroe doctrine

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Warning European powers to back off and do not try to conolniz

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Industrial revolution

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Was in England and moved to America because of the increasing use of machines

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Eli Whitney

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Created to cotton gin

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Tariff of 1816

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To protect American merchants

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Sewing machine

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Created by Elias Howe

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Lancaster Turnpike

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Hard serfaced highway thats was from Philadelphia to Lancaster

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Cumberland road

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Western Maryland to Illinois

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Transportation revolution

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People started moving west

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Market revolution

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Transformed the American economy and it changed to people would by and use instead of make their own

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2nd Continental congress

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Massachusetts called to draft new constitution

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Lord Sheffield

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Made a pamphlet that said that Britain could win back America’s trade without repealing navigation laws

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Alexander Hamilton

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For central gov.

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Large state plan (Virgina plan)

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First framework for the constitution

Says that reps in congress should be based on states pop.

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Small state plan (New Jersey plan)

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Equal representation in Congress (nothing to do with state size)

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Three-fifth compromise

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Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person within the about of electoral votes the state has

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Common law

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Laws that are super specific with every possible detail

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Anti-Federalists

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Didn’t like strong federal government they feared it would take away power of the people

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Federalists

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Wanted Strong federal government

Wealthy and educated

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Virginia statue for religious freedom

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Made by Thomas Jefferson, stated that religion should not be imposed on anybody and that each person decided their own faith

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Anti-slavery society 1775

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Founded by the Quakers

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Funding at par

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Federal gov. Would pay off its debts at face value

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National debt

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Hamilton believed that it was a nessissity

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First tariff

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It imposed taxes on certain import

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Excise tax

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Tax on a few domestic items including whiskey

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Thomas Jefferson

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Strongly opposed the bank

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Two party system

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Two opposing political party’s

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Democratic-republicans

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Jefferson’s side

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Federalists

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Hamitions side

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French Revolution

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The French revolt against British crown

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Miami confederacy

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Alliance of 8 Indian nations

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John Adams

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Beat jefferson in the second election

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Talleyrand

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French foreign minister

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Convention of 1800

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Where Napoleon signed the treaty of stop a potential war

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Sedition act

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Anyone who impeded the policies of the gov. Or defrayed it’s office would be fined aloe and imprisoned

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Whispering campaigns

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Federalists accusing Jefferson of bad things

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Revolution of 1800

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No Federalists became pres after this election

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Republican-democratic congress

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Repealed the judiciary act and kicked out the 16 new judges

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Marbury vs. Madison 1803

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Madison cut judge Marbury salary so Marbury sued him

Court said that he had a right to his pay but the court didn’t have the authority to force Madison to pay him

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Samuel chase

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A court justice that democratic republicans congress tried to impeach

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Robert Livingston

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Went with James Monroe to buy land, signed treaty’s

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Arron burr

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Got dropped from Jefferson’s cabinet and joined a group of extremists Federalists who plotted secession of New England and New York

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Non intercourse act

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Opened trade to every country except France and Britain

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Macon’s bill no. 2

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Reopened American trade with the entire world but it said that if Britain or France repealed its commercial restrictions

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Twelfth congress

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The war hawks wanted to go to war with the British and eliminate the Indian threats

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William Henry Harrison

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Gov. Of the Indiana territory; defeated the Shawnee at the battle of tippeanoe

One of the whigs pres. Nominee

Defeated Van Buren to win the election of 1840

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Battle of the Thames

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Gen Harrison’s army took over tithe British at Detroit at fort Malden

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Rush-bagot agreement

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Was made between U.S and Britain and it limited the navel arrangement on the Great Lakes

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Tariff of 1816

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Was made to protect American companies

Added tax to super cheap British goods

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Era of good feelings

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During when Monroe was pres

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Land act of 1820

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A buyer could buy 80 acres at 1.25

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McCuilloch vs. Maryland

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An attempt by Maryland to destroy a branch of the bank of the US by imposing a tax on the banks

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Cohens vs Virginia

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Involved the cohens appealing to Supreme Court after being found guilty of illegally selling lottery tickets

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Gibbons vs Ogden

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Came up when New York and tried to give a private company a monopoly of waterborne commerce between New York and New Jersey (no other company could use the waterway)

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Fletcher vs peck

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Georgia legislature granted 35mil acres to private speculators, next legislator cancelled the transaction

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Dartmouth college vs Woodward

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Dartmouth college was given a charter by king George but new hamsirer wanted to take it away

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Andrew Jackson

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General who won the battle of New Orleans

Went to Florida and captured spanish posts

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George canning

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British foreign secretary asked the American minister in London if the us would hand togetherness in a joint declaration (basically warning the Europeans to keep away from Latin America

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Russo-American treaty

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The Russians retreated farther north north into Alaska

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Rendezvous system

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Fur trappers would meet with traders for the east to exchange beaver pelts for manufactured goods

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The ancient order of Hibernians

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A secret society to fight landlords

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Known nothing party

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Native Americans who opposed immigrants

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Samual Slater

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Father of the factory system in America

Stole British plans for textile machinery

First machine to spin cotton

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Elias Howe

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invented the sewing machine

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Laws of free incorpation

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Enabled businessmen to create corporations without applying for any individual charters from legislation

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Catharine Beecher

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Urged women to become teachers

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Cult of domesticity

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Culture that glorified the customary functions of a homemaker (women)

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John Deere

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Made the steel plow

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Mcormick reaper

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A horse drawn mechanical reaper that cut and gathered crops fast

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Robert Fulton

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Made the first steam boat

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Erie Canal

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Constructed by gov. DeWitt Clinton (gov of New York)

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Pony express

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Was established to carry mail from st.joseph Missouri to Sacramento California (collapsed 18 months after bc of low money)

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Corrupt bargain

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Andrew Jackson thought since clay convinced people to vote for Quincy Adams and Jackson thought there was foul play

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John Quincy Adams

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Pres. After Jefferson

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Spoils system

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Democrats replaced public officials with illiterate and incomplete people, rewarding supporters with gov jobs

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Tariff of abominations/Yankee tariff

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Increase on imports, hated by southerners

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Columbia Convention

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Called for the tariff to be void in South Carolina

126
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Society for propagating the gospel among Indians

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Made to Christianize Indians

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Indian removal act

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It moved more than 100,00 Indians west of the Mississippi (trail of tears)

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Black hawk war

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Black hawk Led Indians to fight the relocation

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Nicholas Biddle

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The pres of bank out US held a possible un constitucional amount of power

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Daniel Webster

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Him an Henry clay presented a bill to renew the banks charter

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Financial panic

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Jackson destroyed the second US bank and it heavily contributed to the panic

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Martin Van Buren

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Andrew Jackson’s choice as his successor in the election

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Divorce bill

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Called for separating the gov. Banking

134
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Stephen Austin

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Promised to bring families into Texas

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Santa Anna

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Dictator of Mexico, removed Texans local rights and started to raise army to suppress the rebelling Texans

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Sam Houston

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Commander and chief for Texas army

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Battle of son Jacinto

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Gen. Houston captured santa Anna and made him sign a treaty to give Texas to them

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Two party system

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Whigs vs Democrats

139
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Doctrine of deism

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Relied on science rather than the Bible

Did believe in a Supreme being

140
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Unitarianism

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Came from deism, believed god existed

Appealed to intellectuals

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Second great awakening

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Wave of religious fever

Women more involved with religion

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Peter Cartwright

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A revivalist, traveling preacher who converted thousands to Christianity

143
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Charles Grandison Finney

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One of the greatest revivalist preachers

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Joseph Smith

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Formed the Mormon church when he deciphered the Book of Mormon (Illinois)

145
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Horace Mann

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Campaigned for better school system

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Emma Willard

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Huge part of creating a women’s secondary school

147
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Dorthy Dix

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Traveled visiting asylums and pushed to improve the conditions within them

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American peace society

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Led by William Ladd

149
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American temperance society

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Tried to persuade people to stop drinking

150
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Neal S Dow

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“Father of prohibition” supporter the Maine law

151
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Maine law of 1851

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Banned manufacturing and sale of liquor in Maine

152
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Seneca falls

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Women rights convention and said to rewrite the Declaration of Independence to include women

153
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Robert Owen

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Founded a utopian community in New Harmony Indiana to seek human betterment

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Brook farm

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Founded in Massachusetts, Utopian community

155
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Greek revival

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architecture came to America

156
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Hudson River school

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Expelled at romantic art

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James Fenimore Cooper

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First American novelist to gain world fame

158
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Transcendent movement

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Believed that knowledge transcended the senses and can’t found just by observation knowledge comes from within

159
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalist poet and philosopher, urged American writers to forget European traditions

Wrote “the American scholar”

160
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Henry David Thoreau

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Transdentslist who believed that people should ignore bodily and pursue truth through study and meditation

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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One of the most famous poets to come from America (adopted by the less cultured)

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