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Jackson's Presidency, Part 1
Jackson's Presidency, Part 2
Post-Jacksonian Antebellum
Antebellum Reforms
Supreme Court Cases!
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The charge make by Jacksonians in 1825 that Clay had supported John Quincy Adams in the House presidential vote in return for the office of Secretary of State. Clay knew he could not win, so he traded his votes for an office.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
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The Supreme Court decided Georgia had no jurisdiction over Cherokee reservations. Georgia refused to enforce decision and President Jackson didn't support the Court.
What is Worchester v. Georgia: 1832?
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was meant to stop land speculation caused by states printing paper money without proper specie (gold or silver) backing it; required that the purchase of public lands be paid for in specie. It stopped the land speculation and the sale of public lands went down sharply.
What is Specie Circular?
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A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendant of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Who is Dorthia Dix?
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The Supreme Court held that Madison need not deliver the commissions because the Congressional act that had created the new judgships violated the judiciary provisions of the Constitution, and was therefore unconstitutional and void. This case established the Supreme Court's right to judicial review. Chief Justice John Marshall presided.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
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The tariff protected the North but harmed the South; South said that the tariff was economically discriminatory and unconstitutional because it violated state's rights. It passed because New England favored high tariffs
What is the Tariff of Abomination or Tariff of 1828?
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The Supreme Court ruled that Indians weren't independent nations but dependent domestic nations which could be regulated by the federal government
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia: 1831?
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This president's Slogan was: "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
Who is William Henry Harrison?
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Secretary of the newly formed Massachusetts Board of Education, he created a public school system in Massachusetts that became the model for the nation. Started the first American public schools, using European schools (Prussian military schools) as models.
Who is Horace Mann?
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A state had tried to revoke a land grant on the grounds that it had been obtained by corruption. The Court ruled that a state cannot arbitrarily interfere with a person’s property rights. Since the land grant was a legal contract, it could not be repealed, even if corruption was involved.
What is Fletcher v. Peck?
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included many reforms: free public schools, more women's rights, better working conditions in factories, and the rise of the Abolition movement. In the election, Jackson was portrayed as a common man and his opponent, J.Q. Adams, was attacked for his aristocratic principles. Electors in the electorial college were also chosen by popular vote. Common man, nationalism, National Nominating Conventions.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
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Jackson vetoed the extension of this
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
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A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions.
What is Transcendentalism?
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An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics.
What is Nativism?
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This decision upheld the power of Congress to charter a bank as a government agency, and denied the state the power to tax that agency.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
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A small group of Jackson's friends and advisors who were especially influential in the first years of his presidency. Jackson conferred with them instead of his regular cabinet
What is Kitchen Cabinet?
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When faced with the protective Tariff of 1828, John Calhoun presented a theory in the South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828) that federal tariffs could be declared null and void by individual states and that they could refuse to enforce them.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
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Founded Mormonism in New York in 1830 with the guidance of an angel.
Who is Joseph Smith?
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Site of the first modern women's right convention. At the gathering, Elizabeth Cady Staton read a Declaration of Sentiment listing the many discrimination against women, and adopted eleven resolutions, one of which called for women's suffrage.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?
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This case ruled that only the federal government has authority over interstate commerce
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
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During the winter of 1838 - 1839, troops under General Winfield Scott evicted them from their homes in Georgia and moved them to Oklahoma Indian country.
What is the Trail of Tears?
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authorized President Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. South Carolina's ordinance of nullification had declared these tariffs null and void, and South Carolina would not collect duties on them; was never invoked because it was passed by Congress the same day as the Compromise Tariff of 1833, so it became unnecessary
What is Force Act?
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let the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah, where they founded the Mormon republic of Deseret. Believed in polygamy and strong social order.
Who is Brigham Young?
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House Elf of the Malfoys?
Who is Dobby?
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1st Vice President that became President upon the death of the voted president
Who is John Tyler?