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-Formed Rhode Island
-Dissenter from Puritan beliefs
-Banned from the Bay Colony |
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-Involved with Marbury V. Madison ("Midnight Judges")
-"The Father of the Constitution"
-Opposed Dem. Rep. Party
-Wanted international independence (expansion of west) |
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-Found all aspects of British interference intolerable.
-Expansionists-entailed control of other people
-Young Dem. Reps. from West and South |
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-War Hawk leader
-Westerner
-Responsible for American System
-Wrote Compromise of 1850
-Supported Adams, rivaled Jackson |
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-Supreme Court judge
-strong federalist
-est. the principle that only the federal judiciary could decide what was constitutional |
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-Indians cam into contact w/ tobacco planters expanding from VA
-Raids led by Nathaniel Bacon
-VA Gov. William Berkeley wanted to suppress the raids so Bacon attacked the capital- Jamestown. |
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-Farmers in W. Mass were hit hard by depressions- were being put in jail b/c of debt.
-Reconsideration of Articles of Confederation |
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-Farmers protested the tax on whiskey (unconstitutional)
-Raised issues of... power and authority of new federal gov't, relation of west to the rest of the nation, nature of political dissent, meaning of revolutionary tradition |
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-British wanted to save the East India Company
-Lowered price on tea to get Americans to drink more |
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-Most famous slave revolt
-had a religious vision where blacks and whites were battling
-Made his vision a reality- first killed his master |
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| -Legalized the housing of troops at public expense. |
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| Tax on tea from Townshend duties- colonial market for tea had collapsed |
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| -Line that went through the Appalachian mountains by British. |
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-Required purchase of specially embossed paper for legal docs, newspapers, etc.
-Affected many influential colonists. |
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| Virginia House of Burgess |
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| -First provincial legislation banning the importation of goods enumerated in the Townshend Revenue Acts, and slaves and luxury commodities. |
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-First doc of self-gov't in N. America
-Signed by pilgrims
-Principles which most N. American colonists agree w/. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| -Created a national assembly (congress) in which each state had a single vote. |
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-Framed by white men who represented America's social and economic elite.
-Ability to tax and enforce laws directly.
-3/5 rule: 5 slave=3 free men
-Bill of Rights
-Federalists supported constitution. |
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-Madison created "Midnight Judges"
-William Marbury sued James Madison to recover the pos. he had lost.
-Vital step in realizing the 3-way balance of power among the branches of the federal gov't. |
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-Sanford sued for his freedom-residence in free lands made them free.
-Chief Justice Roger Taney declared MO Compromise unconstitutional and asserted that fed gov't had no right to interfere w/ free movement of property throughout the territories.
-Dismissed the case-only citizens can bring suits before federal courts. |
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-All states above 36' 30'' line are free
-MO is slave state, Maine is free. |
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| -5 Separate bills, 3 separate compromises -CA: free states, former Mexican territories: popular sovereignty -Texas required to cede land to New Mexico -Slave trade ended in D.C., stronger fugitive slave law. |
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-Stephen Douglas introduced the act to further the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
-Land west of Iowa and Missouri had to be organized into territories
-Status of slavery in new territories-pop. sovereignty |
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| -Proposed that slavery be banned in all the territories acquired from Mexico |
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| -Increased power of slave owners to capture escaped slave |
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-Scrapping Articles of Confederation in favor of a "consolidated gov't" having power to tax and enforce its laws directly rather that through the states.
-Reduced states to admin. districts
-Opposition came from delegates of small states-feared being swallowed up by the large ones. |
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-Opposition to the War of 1812
-Document contained grievances, did not mention secession
-States had a right to nullification |
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-Independent American policy
-End of colonization of western hemisphere by European nations.
-U.S. would not interfere in the affairs of European countries or in the affairs of their remaining New World colonies. |
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-Congress set the price of land at $1.25 an acre, the minimum purchase at 80 acres.
-Most liberal land law. |
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-Proposed by Henry Clay
-Plan for national economic development
-Monroe supported American System
-Chartering of NTL bank
-Tax on imported goods to protect American Manufacturers (tariff of 1816)
-NTL system of roads and canals-more controversial. |
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-Horace Mann
-1827- Mass. pioneered compulsory education
-Catherine Beecher- teacher training for women |
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-Grimke Sisters-first female speakers in America
-Seneca Falls Convention of 1848- 19th amendment: women's right to vote.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
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-Martha Washington Society
-heavy drinking was a NTL problem for men |
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-Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth
-William Lloyd Garrison- "The Liberator"
-Harriet Beecher Stowe- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
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-Jeffersonian opposition
-disagreed w/ federalists
-small gov't/states/rights |
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-supporters of constitution
-AKA Nationalists
-Wanted big everything
-Strong central gov't, public order (negative campaigning) |
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-American colonial elites (seeking to preserve power) argued for stronger assemblies.
-Gov't balanced w/ monarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements.
-initiators and beneficiaries of economic change
-Supported Clay's American System
-Wanted to improve people
-members of evangelical reforming denominations
-favored gov't intervention in economic and social affairs
-whigs welcomed industrialization |
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-AKA American Party
-Several secret fraternal societies open only to native-born Protestants who pledged never to vote for a Catholic
-Farmers whose jobs were threatened by the cheap labor and unfamiliar culture of the new immigrants. |
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-Big-City Machines
-Founded in 1854
-Combined Whigs with westward-looking, expansionist, free-soil policy.
-attracted economic core of old Whig Party.
-Sectional rather than national party
-threat to national unity |
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-Abolitionist principles and practical politics
-Northern values of freedom and individualism would be destroyed if the slave-based southern labor system were allowed to spread
-antiblack=antislavery
-Proposed to ban all African Americans from the new territories.
-Opposed the MO Compromise. |
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