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Jacksonian democracy
19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions
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Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
book about U.S. politics, daily life, cultures, visions of democracy (social mobility & limited democracy)
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Spoils system
the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power
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John C. Calhoun
advocated for states' rights, limited federal govt., nullifcation, war hawk
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Nullification
Calhoun's theory, the constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional
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Peggy Eaton Affair
a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831, led to wedge between Calhoun and Jackson
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Webster–Hayne debate
the debaters argued about slavery, the economy, protection tariffs, and western land, but the real implication was the meaning of the United States Constitution
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Indian Removal Act
authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders, introduced by Jackson
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Trail of Tears
1000 Cherokees fled to reservation, but forced to trek back to Indian Territory, many perished on the way
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Taney Court
the first to rule that corporations could operate outside the state in which they were chartered
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Log Cabin campaign
Whig party, put the slogan “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” on a wide range of campaign paraphernalia to portray the aristocratic Harrison as a man of the people