concepts
caucus
conference of members of a legislative body who belong to a particular party or faction
What was the Specie Circular
Executive order that required the Treasury department to only accept gold and silver in payment for lands in national domain
Part of Indian Removal. Path where 14000 Cherokees were forcefully moved from Georgia to Oklahoma and 3,000 died. Way more movement and death happened on it though.
Trail of Tears
Who was the Election of 1828 between?
Andrew Jackson vs John Quincy Adams
After England wanted to boost their economy, they abruptly stopped engaging in economic commerce with the USA prompting which crisis that lasted from 1837 to 1843?
Panic of 1837
Corrupt Bargain
Term popularized by Andrew Jackson's supporters in reaction to the appointment of Henry Clay as John Quincy Adams secretary of state after Clay had used his influence of the speaker of the house to induct Quincy Adams as the president.
Which political party supported higher tariffs, national banks, and relief for financial panics. Leaders: Henry Clay, Daniel Webster
Whig Party
Law Signed By Andrew Jackson in 1830. Focuses on relocation of Indians.
Indian Removal Act
Stabilized the nation’s money supply, which consisted primarily of paper money issued by state-chartered banks. Andrew Jackson helped destroy it
Second Bank of the United States
Founded by Henry Clay, what was the name of the anti-slavery society that asserted that slaves should be freed and then resettled in other areas other than America?
American Colonization Society
nullification
legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate any federal laws which they deem unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution. South Carolina did this for acts of 1828 and 1832
The Democract that destroyed the Second Bank and helped issue the Specie Circular
Andrew Jackson
What are political parties run by professional politicians that emerged during the 1820's?
Political Machines
Plan made Henry Clay. Involved Missouri trying to become a state, but US said no slavery. The people wanted slavery though.
The Missouri Compromise
The mercantilist system of national economic development advocated by Henry Clay that consisted of a national bank managing the finances, protective tariffs to increase revenue, and a nationally funded network of roads?
American System
spoils system
unfair system where politicians would appoint their friends to be law enforcing roles
Who became president after William Henry Harrison died? He was nominated as a Whig but was really a Jacksonian Democrat.
John Tyler
What is the name of one of Andrew Jackson's kitchen cabinet who later became the attorney general, treasury secretary, and the chief justice of the supreme court.
Roger B. Taney
Author of the vindication of the rights of women(1792)?
Mary Wollstonecroft
A tariff enacted in 1828 that raised duties significantly on raw materials, textiles, and iron goods. Van Buren's intentions were to support farmer in Northern states like New York, however, the South was enraged by the higher cost of imported goods. What is this tariff called?
Tariff of Abominations
laissez-faire
What is the economic method in which the government does as little as possible, such as promoting economic policies like tariffs and incentives for industrial development. Also encouraged free trade and a competitive market economy.
Eighth president of the US (1837-1841). Helped form the Democratic party.
Martin Van Buren
What is the ideology that women were to instruct the posterity by instilling them with the principles of liberty and government to mold them into exemplary republican citizens?
Republican Motherhood
a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. Apr 6, 1832 – Aug 27, 1832
The Black Hawk War
What is the name of the court hearing where the court allowed the state to issue currency contrary to the law set out in Article 1 Section 10 of the constitution that prohibited states from issuing bills of credit?
Briscoe vs Bank of Kentucky 1837