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Period 4: 1800-1848 Flashcards

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Thomas Jefferson

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The 3rd president from 1801-1809 who established Democratic-Republican power in the government and greatly expanded the size of the USA through the Louisiana Purchase

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Louisiana Purchase (1803)

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A land purchase from France that doubled the size of the USA and gave them the port of New Orleans

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Lewis and Clark

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The two men who led the expedition to explore and map out the Louisiana Territory

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Strict interpretation

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Following the Constitution stringently by what is said, not by what is implied

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John Marshall

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The first Supreme Court chief justice, serving for 34 years

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Judicial review

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The ability of the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of acts passed by the executive branch or Congress

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Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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Declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional and established judicial review

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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

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Declared federal laws supreme over state laws and that the national bank was constitutional

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Gibbons v. Ogden (1821)

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Established the federal government’s broad control of interstate commerce

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Implied powers

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Powers not specifically mentioned in the Constitution but can be infered

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Economic nationalism

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A political movement to support the growth of the American economy by subsidizing interal improvements and protecting US industries

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Sectionalism

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Loyalty to a particular region or section of the nation, rather than America as a whole

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Tariff of 1816

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A protective tariff that was intended to hold the production of textiles and goods

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Protective tariff

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Tariffs that increase the price of imported goods that compete with American-made products, thus protecting American manufacturers from foreign competition in markets

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Henry Clay

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Creator of the American System and Andrew Jackson’s political rival

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American System

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A federal economic policy aimed at promoting economic growth and development in the USA

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Missouri Compromise (1820)

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  • Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state, so as to not upset the balance between free and slave states
  • Slavery was outlawed above the 36 30 latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory
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William Henry Harrison

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A war hero in the War of 1812 who later became the 9th president

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Monroe Doctine (1823)

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Further colonization by Europe in the Western hemisphere would be considered a hostile act by the USA

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National (Cumberland) Road

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  • First highway built entirely through federal funds
  • First road open to all people
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Erie Canal

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  • A waterway that connected the East Coast to the Midwest
  • A major event in linking the economies of western farms and eastern cities
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Railroads

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  • Developed in the 1820s
  • Rapidly changed small western towns in booming commercial centers
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Factory system

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Concentrated all aspects of production under one roof

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Lowell system and textile mills

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Employed many young women under the factory system to increase efficiency

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Unions

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A group of workers who come together to bargain with their employers about specific grievances

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Market Revolution

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Americans moving away from self-sufficient agriculture to the production of goods for sale

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Old Northwest

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Six states that joined the Union before 1860:
- Ohio
- Indiana
- Illinois
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota

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Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)

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“Peaceful unions” had the right to negotiate labor contracts with employers

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Universal white male suffrage

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Allowed all free white males to vote and hold office without prevous property or religious requirements

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Party-nomination convention

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The new method of selecting candidates for political office, in which voters and party members gather at a convention to select their nominee

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Popular election of the president

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Allowed voters to choose a state’s slate of presidential electors

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Spoils system

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Jackson’s system of giving government jobs to political supporters, regardless of their qualifications or experience

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Indian Removal Act (1830)

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Forced the resettlement of thousands of Native Americans

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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

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Cherokees were not a foreign nation with the right to sue in a federal court

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Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

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The laws of Georgia had no force within Cherokee territory

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Trail of Tears

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The relocation of Cherokees in Georgia which resulted in 4,000 deaths

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Roger Taney

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  • Jackson’s Secretary of the Treasury who helped drain federal funds into pet banks
  • Did so if Jackson nominated him for chief justice on the Supreme Court
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Pet banks

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The various state banks that received the drained funds from the national bank

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Specie circular

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Required that all future federal lands be purchased in gold and silver (specie circular)

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Panic of 1837

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A severe financial crisis caused by Jackson’s economic policies regarding the national bank

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Nullification crisis

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Resulted over the Tariff of 1828 after many states nullified it due to deeming it unconstitutional

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Webster-Hayne debate

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Exchange of speeches between senators Hayne and Webster over states’ rights and the nullification crisis

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Proclamation to the People of South Carolina

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Jackson’s statement to South Carolina that declared nullification and disunion as grounds for treason

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Democrats

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Emerged from the Democratic-Republican Party, led by Jackson

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Whigs

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Resembled the Federalists Party, led by Clay

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Cultural nationalism

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The nation is defined by a shared culture

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Shakers

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A deeply religious movement that had elements of socialism

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Antebellum

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Latin for “before war” and refers to the period of increasing sectionalism that led up to the Civil War

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Romanticism

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An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement from 1800-1850 in response to the Industrial Revolution

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Transcendalists

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  • People who believed that each person has direct communication with God and nature, and there is no need for organized churches
  • Pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830s and 1840s
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Feminists

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Advocates of women’s rights

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Second Great Awakening

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A Protestant religious revival movement in the early 19th century, marked by an enthusiatic wave of religious revival and a belief in the idea of free will

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Charles Grandison Finney

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A Prebysterian minister whose sermons appealed to emotion rather than logic

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Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)

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Formed by Joseph Smith and was based on “The Book of Mormon”

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Brigham Young

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Led the Mormons after Joseph Smith’s and settled them in New Zion, in Utah

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Temperance

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Total abstinence from alcohol

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American Temperance Society

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Established in 1826 by Protestant ministers to persuade drinkers to take a pledge of total abstinence

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Women’s Christian Temperance Movement

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A group in the 1870s that supported the temperance movement

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Common (public) school movement

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Led by Horace Mann, where he advocated for free public schools for kids of all classes

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Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

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A convention led by leading feminists, where the “Declaration of Sentiments” was issued

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American Colonization Society

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Established on the idea of transporting free blacks to an African colony

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American Antislavery Society

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Abolitionist society that was founded by William Lloyd Garrison where he advocated for the immediate abolition of slavery

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Frederick Douglass

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Escaped slave who advocated for the direct end of slavery and racial equality based on his own experiences

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Nat Turner

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A slave who led a revolt in 1831 that killed 55 whites

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Gag rule

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Prohibited members of Congress from talking about the issue of slavery

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Slave codes

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Laws passed in the South to keep slaves from running away or rebelling

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Planters

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Southern white farmers who produced the bulk of the cotton crop

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Codes of chivalry

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A code of conduct in which Southern gentlemen ascribed to

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Poor whites/hillbillies

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Farmers who could not afford slaves and thus were deemed inferior, but above black Americans

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Mountain people

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Small farmers who lived in the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains and whom didn’t own slaves

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Deep South

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Also called the Lower South, where slavery was ingraved into society and was defended heatedly

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King Cotton

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A phrase used in the South to refer to the economic and political importance of the cotton crop, and thus, slavery

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Peculiar institution

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Some whites were sensitive about the treatment of slaves, thus refusing to call it “slavery” and calling it a “peculiar institution”

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