APUSH Unit 4 Flashcards

1
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Election of 1800

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Jefferson, Revolution of 1800

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2
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John Marshall

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fourth chief justice

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3
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Marbury v Madison

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(1803) - Judiciary Act was declared unconstitutional. Judicial Review came to be and it significantly increased the power of the federal Supreme Court.

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4
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McCulloch v Maryland

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(1819) - a state cannot tax a federal bank. National law trumps state law

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5
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Causes - War of 1812

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1) Continued impressment of American citizens
2) Americans wanted westward expansion. Britain was found to be giving Indians weapons - War Hawks got mad

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6
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Embargo Act of 1807

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Shut down America’s import/export business

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7
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Non-Intercourse Act

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1809 - reopened trade with everyone except Britain and France

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8
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Hartford Convention

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New England states threatened to secede from the colonies but the Federalists values didnt seem to line up anymore

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9
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War of 1812 Results

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1) Made it clear that without a National Bank, the US didn’t have credit
2) Weak systems of infrastructure & transportation

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10
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Clay’s American System

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1) Federally funded internal improvements (maybe)
2) Federal tariffs
3) Second Bank of the US

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11
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Treaty of Ghent

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1814

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12
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1817 Election

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James Monroe, SOS John Quincy Adams

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13
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Adam-Onis Treaty (1819)

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Border between the US and Spain (Florida sold to US)

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14
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Monroe Doctrine

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1823 - Western Hemisphere was for the US, not European military. Officially challenged

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15
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Election of 1824

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Adams, SOS Clay

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16
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Election of 1828

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Jackson, VP Callhoun

17
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Doctrine of Nullification

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state judged a federal law unconstitutional, they could nullify it.

18
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Force Bill

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respond with military action
Calhoun decided to back off from the threat to succeed if the tax was reduced. Then the force bill was nullified.

19
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Second National Bank

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State banks had to close doors because they were unable to make payments to national bank.

20
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Worcester v Georgia

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Supreme Court sided with Indians. BUT, in 1835, some met with US officials without tribal sanction

21
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Treaty of New Echota

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exchanged cherokee lands in the east for reservation territory west of mississippi.

22
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  1. The Louisiana Purchase resulted primarily from
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American efforts to secure from France commerce rights in New Orleans and along
the Mississippi River

23
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While Chief Justice John Marshall presided over the Supreme Court, its decisions

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laid the groundwork for a “broad” interpretation of the Constitution

24
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Dorothea Dix

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inspired to dedicate her life to a humanitarian crusade by discovery of the confinement of the mentally ill in local jails

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A significant motivating force behind the reform movements from the 1820s to the 1850s was
religious revival
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Frederick Douglas
an escaped slave who became the publisher of the Abolitionist newspaper The North Star
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Harriet Tubman
a conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped fugitives escape to the North
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Nat Turner
a slave who led an “army of slaves” in rebellion in 1831
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Horace Mann
the “father of the American public school system”
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Lucretia Mott
among the first white Americans to call for an immediate end to slavery... organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society