Expansion And Slavery Flashcards

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Battle of New Orleans

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Jan 1815

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Andrew Jackson Presidency

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1829-1837

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Adding of 4 new states - Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois

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1816-1820 - cotton boom with end of napoleonic wars.

Southern fortunes on production, northern fortunes on shipping, English fortunes on manufacturing

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Five Civilized Tribes

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Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee(Creek), Chickasaw, Seminole

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Indian Removal Act

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1830

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Missouri Compromise

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March 1820-50 - Missouri admitted as a slave state, Maine admitted as free. No more slavery north of 36*30’ (southern border of Missouri) but opened the west to slavery instead.

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Northwest Ordinance

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1789

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Monroe Doctrine

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1823

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6 states universal male suffrage

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1821

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All 24 states universal male suffrage

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1828

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First Bank of the United States

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1791-1811 - Founded by Alexander Hamilton - “if federal government. Has the power to tax, it has the power to found a bank to put the revenue in it.

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Second BUS

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1817 Philadelphia

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Panic of 1819

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First US depression - gold and silver short (LA independence movements), smaller European market for US goods, overproduction of cotton and price drops.

Unemployment (75% in Philadelphia)
Foreclosure (tent cities)
Bankruptcy

“The bank was saved and the people were ruined” - William Gouge, economist

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McCulloch vs. Maryland

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1819 - US Supreme Court said the Constitution implied the power to create a federal bank through the “necessary and proper” clause.

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Dismantling the BUS by Jackson

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1836

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Spoils system

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A political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory and as an incentive to keep working for the party. Began with Jackson who fired 10% of the government staff to fulfill his electoral promises.

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“Slavery a positive good” Calhoun (date)

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1837

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Britain outlaws slave trade

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1807

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4 million slaves in the US

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1860

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Slave trade abolition

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1808

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How many southerners owned slaves?

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Less than 25%

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Fugitive Slave Act

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1850 - anyone could be arrested and sent south

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Slavery abolished in Cuba

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1886

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Golden law that ended slavery in Brazil

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1888

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Marx of the Master Class

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John C. Calhoun according to Richard Hofstadter

Lords of the lash vs lords of the loom

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Force Bill

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1833 - authorized the president to use whatever force he deemed necessary to enforce federal tariffs. See Nullification crisis.

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Nullification Crisis

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Crisis under president Andrew Jackson. South Carolina declared the Tariff of 1828 and 1832 null and void within its borders - belief that those tariffs favored the North over the south. Sectionalism

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Black codes

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Restrictions of where blacks can live and work.

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Voter participation in the US 1824-28

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Doubled from 27% to 57%

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War of 1812 inflation

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Federal gov issued paper money with no regard for gold and silver backing.

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Nicholas Biddle

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Director of the second BUS - insisted that branches keep 50% of value of loans on reserve.

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Dismantlement of Bank of United States

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Jackson 1836

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On Jacksons politics quote

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The spirit of Jacksonianism is Jacobinism

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Economics of slavery

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1600: a young male slave in Jamaica cost 20£
One year work - 600 lbs of sugar = £20
After that profit

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Southerners owning slaves percentage

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less than 25%

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Uncle Toms cabin

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1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe - children’s book

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Brazil and slavery

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40% of the enslaved people’s in the Americas

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Margo and Steckel

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Historians of nutrition who assembled data on how slaves were fed in comparison to industrial workers –> slaves generally taller than average European.