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| 5587530824 | Universal male suffrage | System that allowed all adult males to vote without regard to property, religious, or race qualifications or limitations | 0 | |
| 5587530825 | Spoils system | System by which the victorious political party rewarded its supporters with government jobs | 1 | |
| 5587530826 | "Corrupt bargain" | Following the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson and his supporters alleged that, know a "corrupt bargain", Henry Clay sold his support during the House vote in the disputed election of 1824 of Josh Quincy Adams in exchange for his appointment as Secretary of State | 2 | |
| 5587530827 | Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of abominations) | Refers to the protective tariffs passed by the Democratic Congress in 1828 that hurt the South by diminishing exports of cotton and raised prices of manufactured goods | 3 | |
| 5587530828 | Andrew Jackson | POTUS (1829-1847) who founded the Democratic party, signed the Indian Removal Act, vetoed the Second Bank, and singed the Force Bill | 4 | |
| 5587530829 | Rotation in office | See other set | 5 | |
| 5587530830 | Peggy Eaton affair | Peggy Eaton was the target of malicious gossip by other cabinet wives, Jackson forced wives to accept Eaton socially, caused most of the cabinet to resign including VP John C. Calhoun | 6 | |
| 5587530831 | Indian Removal Act (1830) | Legislation that offered the native peoples of the lower South the option of removal to federal lands west of the Mississippi those who did not take the offer were removed by force in 1838 | 7 | |
| 5587530832 | Cherokee Nation v. Georgia | See other set | 8 | |
| 5587530833 | Worchester v. Georgia | See other set | 9 | |
| 5587530834 | Trail of tears | See other set | 10 | |
| 5587530835 | State's rights | See other set | 11 | |
| 5587530836 | Nullification crisis | Beginning in the late 1820's, John C. Calhoun and others argued that the Union was a voluntary compact between sovereign states, that states were the ultimate judges of the constitutionality of federal law, that states could nullify federal laws within their borders, and that they had the right to secede from the Union | 12 | |
| 5587530837 | John C. Calhoun | VP to Jackson | 13 | |
| 5587530838 | Bank of the United States | Owned by the federal government | 14 | |
| 5587530839 | Two-party system | See other set | 15 | |
| 5587530840 | "Pet banks" | Private banks that housed the US treasury | 16 | |
| 5587530841 | Specie Circular | Provision added to the Deposit Act in 1836 that required speculators to pay in silver and gold coins when buying large parcels of public land | 17 | |
| 5587530842 | Panic of 1837 | Caused by the specie circular (see specie circular) | 18 | |
| 5587530843 | Second Great Awakening | Emphasis on salvation through social change | 19 | |
| 5587530844 | Revivalism | A series of emotional religious meetings that led to numerous public conversions | 20 | |
| 5587530845 | Mormons | Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830; the Book of Mormon is their Bible | 21 | |
| 5587530846 | Transcendentalist | Those who believed society and its institutions corrupted the purity of the individual | 22 | |
| 5587530847 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | See other set | 23 | |
| 5587530848 | Henry David Thoreau | Transcendentalist writer, believed in civil disobedience (passive resistance), spent a night in jail for refusing to pay a tax that supported Mexican war and slavery | 24 | |
| 5587530849 | Brook farm | Led by John Humphrey Noyes, humans no longer obligated to follow moral rules of past, "group marriage, free love, and mutual criticism", failed because residents spent part of day in academic pursuit (rural community - no farming) | 25 | |
| 5587530850 | Shakers | Those who used dance to worship | 26 | |
| 5587530851 | New Harmony | See other set | 27 | |
| 5587530852 | Oneida community | humans no longer obligated to follow moral rules of past, "group marriage, free love, and mutual criticism" | 28 | |
| 5587530853 | Temperance | Movement that supported abstaining from alcoholic beverages | 29 | |
| 5587530854 | Asylum movement | Creation of orphanages, jails, and hospitals led by Dorthea Dix | 30 | |
| 5587530855 | Public school movement | See other set | 31 | |
| 5587530856 | McGuffey Readers | Taught patriotism along with language in children's books | 32 | |
| 5587530857 | Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | First national convention of women's rights activists | 33 | |
| 5587530858 | Abolotionism | Movement begun in the North about 1830 to abolish slavery immediately and without compensation to owners | 34 | |
| 5587530859 | William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist and publisher of the first issue of the Liberator | 35 | |
| 5587530860 | Frederick Douglas | Escaped slave, ambassador to Haiti, editor of the North Star | 36 | |
| 5587530861 | Sojourner Truth | Wrote her own narrative about slavery | 37 | |
| 5587530862 | Manifest destiny | The belief that the US was destined to grow from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Artic from the Tropics. Providence supposedly intended for Americans to have this area for a great experiment in liberty | 38 | |
| 5587530863 | Alamo | Battle between Texas revolutionaries and the Mexican army at the San Antonio mission called the Alamo on March 6, 1836, in which all 187 Texans were killed | 39 | |
| 5587530864 | Webster-Ashburton treaty (1842) | See other set | 40 | |
| 5587662917 | Oregon treaty | See other set | 41 | |
| 5587662918 | Nuences River | See other set | 42 | |
| 5587662919 | Mexican war (1846-1847) | See other set | 43 | |
| 5587662920 | Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo | Treaty that authorized the purchase of California, New Mexico, and a Texas border on the Rio Grande for 15 million dollars | 44 | |
| 5587662921 | Ostend manifesto | See other set | 45 | |
| 5587662922 | Mexican cession | See other set | 46 | |
| 5587662923 | Gadsden purchase (1853) | See other set | 47 | |
| 5587662924 | Panic of 1857 | See other set | 48 | |
| 5587662925 | Wilmot Proviso | Famous proviso made by Congressman David Wilmot regarding an amendment to an army appropriations bill that framed the national debate over slavery for the next 15 years | 49 | |
| 5587662926 | Henry Clay | Speaker of the House, senator from Kentucky, and National Republican presidential candidate who was the principal spokesman for the American system | 50 |
