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| What did the expansion of suffrage lead to? |
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| the election of democracy-endorsing, modest men, who strove to create laws restricting debt imprisonment, laws to lower taxes, and laws to allow poor farmers to claim squatter's rights to unclaimed land |
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| What did Martin Van Buren believe to be a benefit of political parties? |
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| they check a government's inherent "disposition to abuse power" |
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Adams vs. Jackson in the Electoral college, no absolute majority was received
the House of Representatives chose the president, Henry Clay assembled congressmen who voted Adams into office |
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Henry Clay
national economic development: protective tariffs, a national bank to control credit and provide a uniform currency |
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| Who liked the American System? |
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| Northeast and Midwest manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and farmers |
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| Who didn't like the American System? |
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| the South, who opposed protective tariffs and their effects on the price of manufactures |
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protected manufacturers against imports of iron goods and English woolen and cotton textiles
known as the Tariff of Abominations |
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| supported land rights of Native Americans, against expansionists |
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Andrew Jackson
massive publicity campaign
equal rights
popular rule
opposed the American System
hostile towards Native Americans |
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| Andrew Jackson giving government jobs to friends and to those he wished to back his policies |
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| South Carolina's Act of Nullification |
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argued that protective tariffs were unconstitutional because each region had distinctive interests
because the Constitution had been ratified in different states by various conventions, they argued that ultimate power rested in the states, and a state could declare a congressional law unconstitutional and void within their borders |
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| authorized the president to use military means to compel South Carolina's obedience to national laws |
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the 2nd Bank, led by Nicholas Biddle, had enormous power by controlling prices, credit, and state banks
--> Jackson vetoes their recharter, declares the bank to be unconstitutional, removed funds from the bank and put them into pet banks (state banks)
--> Biddle then asks for loans from state banks to counter this, and Jackson responds by limiting the circulation of money (Specie Circular Bill, 1836)
CURBED INFLATION |
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| Indian Removal Act of 1830 |
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| granted money and land in Oklahoma and Kansas to Native Americans who would give up their ancestral holdings |
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| Illinois, with Chief Blackhawk and the Sauk/Fox people, Jackson's troops killed 850 warriors |
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| President Van Buren ordered General Winfield Scott to enforce the Treaty of New Echota, which moved all Cherokee to the new Indian Territory |
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mandated election for all public officials
laissez-faire, limited the governmental role in the economy
attacked the use of chartered corporations and state funds to promote economic development |
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opposed Jackson's increased presidential authority
celebrated self-made success
valued the individual rights of the states
economic and moral improvement |
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Bank of England curtailed the flow of money and credit to the United States
--> the sudden lack of British funds caused Southern planters to withdraw specie from banks to pay for debts on foreign loans
prices of cotton dropped
the government needed to increase their investments in canals and railroads to revive the economy |
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| Independent Treasury Act of 1840 |
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| pulled specie from banks and put it into government vaults, which delayed the recovery of the economy |
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| the first time 2 well-organized parties competed for the loyalties of the mass electorate |
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served as a Jeffersonian Democrat even though the Whigs had gotten him into office
vetoed Whig bills that would raise tariffs and create a new national bank |
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| voting along ethnic and religious lines |
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