Chapter 9 and 10 APUSH test
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English | Tohono O'odham |
|---|---|
 the common man | Jackson used this as his campaign slogan, saying he wasn't rich and out of touch. |
| The Dorr Rebellion | Rhode Island would only let 1/2 of male citizens vote. Thomas Dorr came up with his own Rhode Island Constitution. Eventually they changed their voting policy. |
| Democrats and Whigs | Following Missouri Compromise, Democrats supported states rights, Whigs supported strong Federal gov't |
| Nullification Doctrine | states have the right to declare national laws or actions null and void. John C. Calhoun (1860s) If Congress makes decision to ban slavery; the states have the right to declare that unconstitutional, null and void. |
| Peggy Eaton Affair | Jackson's secretary of war, John H. Eaton, married Peggy Eaton in 1829. They were socially disregarded by Calhoun's wife and Calhoun's friends in the cabinet. Jackson believed that the Eaton affair was Calhoun's plot to discredit him and advance Calhoun's presidential ambitions. |
| Tariff of Abominations | Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South |
| Black Hawk War | Chief Black Hawk of Sauk tribe, led rebellion against US; started in Illinois and spread to Wisconsin Territory; 200 Sauk and Fox ppl murdered; tribes removed to areas west of Mississippi |
| The Bank War | Jackson was determined to destroy the Bank of the United States because he thought it was too powerful. He felt the Bank was unconstitutional and only benefited the rich. |
| Worcester v Georgia | Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty - Jackson ignored it |
| Maysville Road Veto | A veto by Jackson that prevented the Maysville road from being funded by federal money since it only benefited Kentucky. This was a blow to Clay's American System, and it irritated the West. |
| Five civilized tribes | collective name for the Creeks, Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Seminoles |
| Trail of Tears | The tragic journey of the cherokee people from their home land to indian territory between 1838 and 1839, thousands of cherokees died. |
| Pet banks | State banks where Andrew Jackson placed deposits removed from the federal National Bank. |
| Anti-Masonic Party | Anti-Jackson party that was against secret societies; very religious |
| The "log cabin" campaign | This was the campaign used to promote William Henry Harrison as an average guy and a hero by the wiggs party in the 1936 elections |
| The Aroostook War | an undeclared (and ultimately bloodless) confrontation between the United States and Great Britain over the international boundary between Canada and Maine. |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 1842 - Established Maine's northern border and the boundaries of the Great Lake states. |
| The Force Bill | the bill passed with the tariff of 1833, it gave the president the power to use the army and navy, if necessary, to collect federal tariff duties. |
| Nativists | People opposed to immigration |
| The Know-Nothing Party | a political party that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant in the 1850's. |
| The Lowell System | Use young girls to work mills. |
| Corporation | a business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts |
| Limited Liability | the liability of a firm's owners for no more than the capital they have invested in the firm |
| The Spoils System | Employed by Jackson. System by which the victorious political party rewarded its supporters with government jobs. |
| Indian Removal Act of 1930 | an act that provided for the transplanting of all Indian tribes that were east of the Mississippi; this effectively uprooted 100,000 Indians, and in the ensuing decade countless Indians died on the forced marches |
| Age of Jackson | period when marked by belief that ordinary people should vote in elections, hold office, and do anything they had the ability to do. |
| Patronage | The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers |
| King Andrew | term given to the tyrannical actions of president andrew jackson |
| Specie Circular | issued by President Jackson July 11, 1836, was meant to stop land speculation caused by states printing paper money without proper specie (gold or silver) backing it. 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. The panic of 1837 followed. |
| Erie Canal | a 363-mile-long artificial waterway connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie, built between 1817 and 1825 |
| Trunk Lines | major railroads that crossed the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast |
| Rotary Press | a printing press for printing from a revolving cylinder |
| Interchangeable Parts | identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufactoring |
| Merchant Capitalists | entrepreneurs who were engaged in foreign and domestic trade and who sometimes invested $$ in small manufacturing ventures. SWITCHED over to manufacturing |
| Industrial Capitalists | people who built and owned factories |
| Safety Valve | Theory that when hard times came, the unemployed could migrate west and be prosperous farmers. Induced urban employers to maintain high wage rates. |
| Cult of domesticity | Belief in Middle and Upper Classes in US and Britain - women embodied perfect virtues in all senses |
| Mt. Holyoke and Oberlin Colleges | Only colleges to give women education |
| Commercial Farming | the raising of crops and livestock for sale in markets |
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