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John C. Calhoun

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John C. Calhoun

A War Hawk leader that created the South Carolina Exposition and the "positive good" idea

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Maysville Road

A new government-funded road that would have expanded the national road, but it was vetoed by Jackson

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South Carolina Exposition

Argued that the Order of Nullification was constitutional because states have different economic structures, and since tariffs don't serve them well, they have the right to nullify them

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Jackson's Position of Land

That American land is ours, and Native Americans don't belong there

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Clay and Webster's Position

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Jackson's State Bank Plan

Remove both state banks at any cost, especially with the use of the veto

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Order of Nullification

South Carolina self-decreed that the state would not be required to pay federal government tariffs

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Force Bill

Jackson created bill that forced SC to pay tariffs but also reduced all tariffs to their 1816 level

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Connection between Secession and State's Rights

Being able to succeed allows States to have independent rights from the government

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Compromise Tariff of 1832

A deal between Henry Clay and John Calhoun that would lower tariffs over the next decade and ended the nullification crisis

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Nicholas Biddle

The president of the National Bank that also gave it a bad reputation

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Kitchen Cabinet

Jackson's personally devoted advisors, including Martin Van Buren, Francis Preston Blair, Amos Kendall, and Roger Taney

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Martin Van Buren

Andrew Jackson's VP and chief campaign strategist

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Roger Taney

Served as an attorney general, treasury secretary, and finally as a Jackson appointee to the Supreme Court

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Patronage/Spoils System

A Jacksonian system of giving government positions to those loyal to Jackson (even through bribes)

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Dismantling of the American System

Jackson's main goal was to undo the American System, using the veto to get rid of the Second National Bank and the Internal Improvements Bill

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Jackson and the Veto

Jackson used the Veto as a weapon, even more than passing laws, including against the Second National Bank and the Internal Improvements Bill

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Jackson and the Native Americans

Jackson had a policy of removal for the Natives, manifesting in the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears

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Indian Removal Act

Provided a federal plan to forcibly relocate Natives west of the Mississippi River into the Oklahoma and Kansas territories

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Worcester v. Georgia

Supreme Court Case where the Cherokee were affirmed in their rights to their ancestral lands, but by 1835, were sidestepped

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Trail of Tears

The forcible death-march relocation of 14,000 Cherokee into western territories

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Corrupt Bargain

A deal between Adams and Clay, the speaker of the House, to skew votes in Adams's favor, stained Adams's reputation and put Henry Clay as secretary of state

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1st Party System

The parties of the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans

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2nd Party System

The parties of the Democrats and the National Republicans/Whigs

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Northern Whigs

Whigs in the north that supported abolitionism

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Southern Whigs

Whigs in the south that were nativist and supported slavery

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Free Masons

A secular, secret, and fraternal society dedicated to upholding Enlightenment ideals

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Anti-Masons

A party opposed to supporting and voting for anyone who professed membership of the Freemasons

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Workingman's Parties

A political party that opposed class division and upper class superiority through trade unions, strikes, and boycotts

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Panic of 1837

An economic crisis caused by financial instability due to removing the Second National Bank

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Specie Circular

A law created by the Treasury that ordered hard currency payments for all federal land payments, reducing speculation

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Hard Currency

Currency in the form of gold silver

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Speculation

Avoiding of paying off loans for various things

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Independent Treasury Act

Established independent treasury deposit offices separate from private or state banks to receive government funds

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William Henry Harrison

An American general who led in the Battle of Tippecanoe and the Thames and also applied for the 9th US presidency but died in office after 30 days

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John Tyler

The VP to William Henry Harrison that took the 10th presidency upon Harrison's death

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Increase in Voter Participation

Property qualifications to vote were mostly removed by Jackson's presidency, allowing the poor to vote (largely supporting Jackson as a result)

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Abolitionism

A movement for removing the policy of slavery because it violates our values as Americans and can't continue in a democratic nation

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Quakers and Slavery

Quakers were largely opposed to slavery as peacemaking agents, and thus led portions of the Abolitionist movement

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American Colonization Society

An Abolitionist organization focused on primarily relocating free blacks to Africa

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Liberia

A country organized by the American Colonization Society that was intended as a safe haven for African-American slaves

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David Walker

An American Abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist that wrote an Appeal to the Colored Citizen, which increase southern white paranoia

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Necessary Evil

Argument to justify slavery by saying that while it is unpleasant, is it necessary for our American economy

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Garrison and the Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison is a white writer and publisher of the Abolitionist newspaper called the Liberator

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Frederick Douglas

A free black American that had excellent writing and oratory skills, wrote the North Star newspaper

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Gag Rule

Prevented any discussion or thing concerning abolition or slavery on Congressional floors

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Liberty Party

A minor political party that supported the abolitionist movement by saying the Constitution was anti-slave

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Relation between market economy and slavery

Both the North and South were tied to slavery because the North's manufacturing was tied to the exports created by slavery in the South

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Forms of Slave Resistance

Revolts, e.g. Toussaint L'Ouverture, Gabriel's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey (mirrors Gabriel's rebellion), and Turner's Rebellion, and holding on to religion, common language, family, and music

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Harriet Tubman

Leader of the Underground Railroad, a network of safehouses that would lead slaves to freedom

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