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| a mill system where young women were employed and lived in dormitories | ||
| "rotation in office" / the practice of victorious politicians rewarding their followers with government jobs | ||
| decree that all pulic lands must be bought with hard money - gold and silver | ||
| the name given to Andrew Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the United States during the early years of his presidency. Andrew Jackson viewed the Bank of the United States as a monopoly. The Bank of the United States was a private institution managed by a board of directors. Its president, Nicholas Biddle, exercised vast influence in the nation's financial affairs. | ||
| Jackson's group of unofficial advisors consisting of newspaper editors and Democratic leaders that met to discuss current issues. | ||
| Southerners favored freedom of trade and believed in the authority of states over the federal government. Southerners declared federal protective tariffs null and void. | ||
| supported slavery and nullification. Vice president twice with Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams | ||
| Senator who persuaded Congress to accept the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Maine into the Union as a free state, and Missouri as a slave state | ||
| The brilliant but arrogant president of the Bank of the United States. Many people believed he held an unconstitutional amount of power over the nation's financial affairs. The power struggle between Biddle and Jackson led to Jackson depositing a large amount of investments into his pet banks. | ||
| some of the strong, remaining tribes of the south, consisted of; Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw. | ||
| Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty - Jackson ignored it | ||
| 1830, Jackson denied federal money to construct road inside Kentucky because it was an intrastate project, he believed the government should only control interstate issues. Increased states' rights. | ||
| Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Arlen Specter, Oprah, and 95% of public school teachers. Also known as the Constitution Hater Party. Initially responsible for the: Trail of Tears, economic panic in the 1830s, and inability to abide by the "checks and balances" system of government. It's been downhill since then. | ||
| An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats, stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements | ||
| a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones | ||
| Secret Nativist political party that opposed Immigration during the 1840's and early 1850's. Officially called the American Party | ||
| A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans. | ||
| society which established the colony of Liberia, to which freed blacks were sent from the United States. The colony later declared its independence. | ||
| A meeting at which leaders of the womens' rights movement called for equality for women. It was in New York in 1849 | ||
| passed in 1851 in Maine, was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States. | ||
| a nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience. | ||
| This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory. | ||
| Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico | ||
| Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million |
