Political changes in the Jacksonian Era
What is the term for using personal attacks and questioning the character of a political opponent or their family?
"mudslinging"
What is the name for the theory that a state government can choose not to enforce a federal law if it believes the federal law will harm its citizens?
Nullification
54-40 or fight refers to:
the most northern latitude of US claims in Oregon; Polk was implying that he would risk war with Britain in order to get all of Oregon
"The little woman who started this great war."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Republican Party
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What had happened to voting rights requirements by the 1820's?
they had become less restrictive, and many states allowed universal white male suffrage
President Jackson developed a rivalry with Henry Clay and Nicholas Biddle over the issue of:
recharter of the BUS
What was John Slidell's mission in Mexico City for which he was repeatedly frustrated and rebuffed while trying to accomplish?
The most prominent promoter of a northern railroad route, the creator of the Freeport Doctrine, the foremost advocate for popular sovereignty, and the "Little Giant"
Stephen A. Douglas
"Common Man" party; anti-bank; pro-Indian Removal; split in 1860 and ran two candidates
Democratic Party
Technically freed no slaves, it was announced after the Battle of Antietam and allowed black men to join the Union army
Emancipation Proclamation
The Jacksonian Era emphasized what new aspect of a candidate for office? Their positions on the issues and their experience were important, but what was now also important?
character, personality, popular appeal, relatability
Jackson trusted in THEM rather than his formal cabinet which he rotated regularly.
"kitchen cabinet"
Polk had four main items on his agenda as President: lower the tariff, reestablish the Independent Treasury, get ALL of _____, and acquire _______. Fill in the blanks.
The Great Nullifier, a defender of slavery as a social and moral good; an advocate for states' rights, and the reason that Charlotte won so many FP!
John C. Calhoun
seemed to be cursed as its only two Presidents died in office; took over for the defunct Federalist Party; rose to oppose the autocratic rule of Jackson; became defunct itself when it divided over the slavery issue
Whig Party
Asserted the "separate but equal" doctrine which allowed segregation in public accommodations
Plessy v Ferguson
What made nominating conventions more "democratic" than the Caucus System of choosing a party's candidates for an election?
the convention brings all party members together to decide whereas the Caucus System left the decision in the hands of the party elite
Who was the political "winner" of the Peggy Eaton Affair?
Martin Van Buren
List three of the four "chess pieces" that Polk moved into place before the Mexican War broke out.
Sloat's fleet off Monterey; Fremont "exploring" in California; Slidell's mission in Mexico City; Taylor with troops in disputed Texas territory
Don't call it a comeback! He returned from recuperation in time to promote the Radical Republican agenda for Reconstruction and impeach Andrew Johnson
Charles Sumner
It's only issue was preventing the spread of slavery to the territories.
Free-Soil Party
Invalidated the Missouri Compromise 36-30 line by asserting that slaves cannot sue, they are property, property is protected by the Constitution, and therefore, slavery can spread everywhere!
Dred Scott case
What problem did both the Election of 1824 and the Election of 1860 have in common?
too many candidates running; split vote
Give an example of a Native American tribe that resisted Indian Removal using war and an example of a tribe that resisted it using the courts.
war--Seminole; Sac and Fox (Blackhawk War)
courts--Cherokee
As a young free-soil Whig, Lincoln demanded to see what in a speech to Congress after the declaration of war on Mexico?
the spot where the American blood had been spilled
An advocate for better treatment of the insane and of imprisoned persons
Dorothea Dix
Nickname for the anti-slavery Whigs who joined the Republican Party in 1854
"Conscience Whigs"
The trap laid by Radical Republicans that President Johnson violated leading to his impeachment
Tenure of Office Act