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- -Democratic Republicans realized that they needed the bank because of the War of 1812 Congress had a lack of funds and paper money became unstable.
- State banks did not have place to deposit $ or get loans, becomes a main issue of the election of 1832.
- Jackson vetoes the bank and kills it by removing federal $ from the bank and putting it in local “pet banks”
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| Protective Tariff of 1816 |
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| -Realized that they needed high tariffs on imports to protect American manufacuturing industries |
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-National road built to help tie nation together
-Jefferson started (1806-1815) with 20 miles completed
-(1817-18) 110 miles completed
-Congress voted to renew plan because of War of 1812 |
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| "The Era of Good Feelings" |
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-Democratic-Republicans are ruling party and no opposing party
-internal sectional strife was growing |
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-agreement between British and U.S. which said that both sides would disarm the border forces
-U.S. treated equal with GB-mutual understanding between GB and U.S.
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-agreement between U.S. and GB that set boundary between US/Canada at 49 degree mark
-Oregon is jointly occupied by GB and U.S. |
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-purchase of Florida for $5 million
-also sets up negotiation for Transcontinental Treaty |
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-British foreign minister
-talks to John Quincy Adams about seting up a joint declaration between GB and U.S. against European Congress |
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-Secretary of State-one of the best
-negotiated Adam-Onis Treaty and Transcontinental Treaty
-President (1824-28)-not great
-helped form the National Republican Party with Henry Clay |
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-came into politics as a War Hawk
-hated Andrew Jackson
-helps Adams in election of 1824 as Speaker of House
-becomes Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams
-created American System
-co founder of National Republican Party
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-developed by Henry Clay
-foster national economic growth and interdependence among geographical sections of U.S.
-West and South should support protective tariffs and national bank
-North should support internal movement |
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-also known as Tariff of 1828
-high protective tax on imports
-South hated this because it protected the Northern manufacturers at expense of South (raised prices on all goods for South)
-South Carolina Exposition and Protest was in response |
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| -lowered tariff but not enough to make the South happy |
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| Ordinance of Nullification |
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-established by South Carolina legislature
-declared Tariff of 1828 and 1832 null and void in South Carolina
-federal officials are prohibited from collecting tariff in South Carolina
-if federal government tried to collect tariff, South Carolina threatened to secede
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| Nullification Proclamation |
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-established by Andrew Jackson
-no state could nullify laws
-no state had right to leave Union
-sent troops to South Carolina to prevent them from not following the law |
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| Compromise Tariff of 1833 |
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-established by Henry Clay
-reduces tariff over 10 years
-win-win situation for South Carolina and Andrew Jackson
-after 10 years no rate would be higher than 20% |
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| Independent Treasury Act (1840) |
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-established subtreasuries that would receive federal deposit to make government independent of state banks
-repealed in 1841 and repassed in 1846 |
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-developed a slogan for reannexing Texas
-said it was U.S. destiny to reach from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans |
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-2000 mile trail West
-(1843-45) Americans were migrating
-encouraged people to move |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) |
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-ends Mexican American War (1846-48)
-U.S. convinces Mexico to accept Rio Grande as Texas boundary
-pays $15 million to Mexico
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| -U.S. gives Mexico $15 million for New Mexico to California (includes Texas) |
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-U.S. buys land for $10 million along Arizona/Phoenix and it completes the present boundary between U.S. and Mexico
-bought to extend Transcontinental Railroad |
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| South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828) |
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-written by John C. Calhoun but was published anonymously
-response to Tariff of Abominations
-Union is a compact beween sovereign states |
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| Missouri Compromise (1820) |
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-sets a line at the 36'30 that limits slavery
-everything south of line is slave state
-everything north is free (except Missouri)
-Missouri enters as slave state
-Maine enters Union as free |
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-established by Henry Clay
-slave trade prohibited in Washington, D.C. (ownership allowed, just not trade) |
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| Fugitive Slave Law (1850) |
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-moved fugitive slave disputes from state to fed.
-special U.S. commissioners could issue warrants for fugitive slaves
-commissioners could deputize people for help with apprehending slaves |
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| Dred Scott Decision (1857) |
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| -owner brought him to a free territory so he sued |
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-controlled by Union, South Carolina opens fire on it
-forced to surrender to Confederate forces
-helps unite North to fight with Lincoln
-causes 4 more Southern states to secede |
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-radical abolitionist
-believed in freedom of slaves even if they must use force
-leader of raid on Harper's Ferry
-wanted to take ammo here and give to slaves
-failed and captured by Federal marine troops led by Robert E. Lee |
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-Union attempt to squash rebellion of South
-trying to capture Confederate capitol in Richmond, VA
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-Confederate iron clad ship built from wreckage of U.S.S. Merrimack
-trying to destroy Union blockade, but does not succeed
-defeats U.S.S. Congress and Cumberland
-stopped by U.S.S. Monitor |
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-built by John Erickson
-commissioned by Gideon (Sec. of Navy)
-iron clad
-2 guns
-stops C.S.S. Virginia from destroying Minnesota, and stops from breaking Union blockade |
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- General of the Confederate Troops. Before that he was an American officer, and graduate from West Point. He is a REALLY good commander and the union at first has no general that can compete with him.
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Grant tries to attack Vicksburg winter of 1862-confederates cut supply/communication lines. Spring of 1863-Union had captured Memphis. Grant based there, crossed Mississippi and met fleet that had passed Vicksburg, ferries to east side of Mississippi. Grant isolates Vicksburg. Vicksburg endured 6 month siege, surrendered 7/4/1863. Fort Hudson besieged also-falls a few days after Vicksburg.
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| Sharpsburg. "Bloodiest day of the war"-draw-but a victory for union. Turning point in the war. Confederate loss convinces Britain and France that Confederacy will lose, so those countries will not regard the Confederacy as a nation. |
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| July 1-3, 1863. Lee and Meade (having recently replaced Joseph Hooker). Union held the line. Lee tried an assault in the center but was repulsed. Confederates retreated back to Virginia. |
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- Becomes the Commanding General of the Union troops. Wants to squash confederate forces.
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-issued by Andrew Jackson
-proclaim that government land had to be paid for with gold or silver |
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