CHAPTER 10 GML APUSH DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

non-freeholders

landless men

The dorr war

a petition against property qualifications in taxes (for white men) that had it’s leader arrested

90 percent

percentage of adult white men that could vote in 1840

Tocqueville

writer of democracy in America

Democracy in America

book written about democracy as an essential part of American freedom

information revolution

an explosion in printing and information

penny press

steam power printing led to the _ paper

infant industries

manufacturing start up that some argued should be protected by the government

American system

government powered economic development

pillars of the american system

a new national bank, tariff on manufactured goods, federal funding of roads and canals

tariff of 1816

protected goods produced in the united states

Panic of 1819

economic bubble burst after Europe lost the demand for American agricultural goods

McCulloch v Maryland

banks could not be taxed

Era of good feelings

Monroe’s term in office as there was only a one party government

Missouri Compromise

slavery would be illegal in the remaining land of the Louisiana purchase and north of a certain latitude

Monroe doctrine

the US would stop colonization and stop being involved in wars in europe

Election of 1824

had andrew jackson elected

proper domain

Adams believed the entirety of the north america was the US’ _

Van Buren

wanted all people to be united under a new political party, democratic

Andrew Jackson

a champion of the people who passed Indian removal acts and rotated his own cabinet

spoils system

the president chooses their cabinet from their allies and supporters

nonproducers

bankers, merchants, speculators

producing classes

farmers, artisans, laborers

Whig party

believed American could guide economic development

tariff of abominations

raised taxes on imported manufactured goods like wool and iron

Exposition and Protest

written by John Calhoun and justified nullifaction

nullification

states could nullify laws that were passed

concurrent majority

each major interest group could have control over measures that effected it

Trail of Tears

the removal route of the Cherokee where 25% percent of them died

Bank war

Jackson fighting against the overproduction of paper money

pet banks

banks funded and supported by the federal government

Panic of 1837

economic collapse after the mass buying of federal land with paper money

Election of 1840

whig victory that was shortly lived as the vice president John Tyler succeeded Harrison and did awful