APUSH Unit 4.1-4.8

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John C. Calhoun

• From SC

• $1.5 mil in federal money to states for internal improvements

• secretly wrote “The SC Exposition” in 1828 while under VP John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

Battle of New Orleans

• 1815

• led by A.J, American victory

• last engagement of war in 1812

• 2 weeks after Treaty of Ghent

• Increased American nationalism

Worcester vs Georgia

• 1832

• supreme court case, affirmed tribal sovereignty

• Cherokee Nation, distinct political community

• Georgia can NOT impose laws on the Cherokee Nation

Protective Tariffs

Tax on foreign imported goods to make the foreign products more expensive than the domestic products

American System (3 pieces)

• Protective tariff

• more manufacturing

• internal improvements

Commonwealth vs Hunt

• “Labor unions are legal if peaceful”

• State wanted to ban

Corrupt Bargain

Made by Henry Clay (speaker of the house) with John Quincy Adams

Cult of Domesticity

Middle and Upper class women don’t work and raise their children + support husbands

Eli Whitney

• Invents the cotton gin

• increasing the need for slavery

• Invents interchangeable parts

Force Bill

• Andrew Jackson

• military force for federal tariffs

• mainly in SC during nullification

Hartford Convention

• Meeting of 26 federalists from south and NE states

• Wanted help from DC from British Blockade

Henry Clay

• Creates American System (BUS)

• Speaker of the House

• Called “Judas of the West”

Impressment

British practice used on American soldiers to join Royal Navy

Indian Removal Act

• Law by Andrew Jackson

• to relocate Indians west of Mississippi

Industrial Revolution

• Burst of major inventions

• Economic expansion

• Water and steam power

• Machine tech

Lowell System

• Textile industry

• Young, single women hired from rural areas

Marbury V Madison

• Gives supreme court Judicial review

McCulloch v Maryland

• Maryland wanted to kill B.U.S, decided to tax it

• “state can tax federal, BUS is constitutional”

Missouri Comprise

• Maine: Free states

• Missouri: ONLY slave state

• Slave free states above the 36/30’ ONLY in Louisiana territory

Monroe Doctrine

• 1. Non-constitutional

• 2. Non-interventional

• Europe must stay out Western Hemisphere

Nullification Crisis

• SC and Fed gov.

• SC attempted to nullify fed. tariffs was unconstitutional 

Panic of 1819

• Economic panic

• Over speculation, BUS claimed it hurt the poor

Precedents set by Washington

• Presidential cabinet

• 2 term limits

• farewell address

• strong executive branch

• power to negotiate treaties 

Samuel Slater

• British

• The first ever water powered spinning mill

Specie Circular

• Western lands need to be purchased in Gold or Silver

Spoils System

• Rewarding political supporters with office jobs (Mr. Jackson)

Trail of Tears

• Forced movement of Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma —> GA, Alabama —> Tennessee

Universal manhood suffrage

• Took away property of qualifications for voting

Washingtons farewell adress

• 1. NOT act involved in European affairs

• 2. Avoid permanent alliance

• NOT form political parties and fall into sectionalism

XYZ affairs

• French demanded bribe

• French worships/privateers peacefully seizing U.S ships