Alien Act
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- American System
- A program created by Henry Clay to try to bring all sections of the country together by making internal improvments
- Excise Tax
- Tax on goods produced in this country
- Right of Deposit
- Right of shipping goods for trade out of the Port of New Orleans
- Loose Interpretation
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Believers in broad, flexible interpretation of Constitutional ideas
(federalists) - Protective Tariff
- Tax Protecting goods made in the U.S.
- Era of Good Feeling
- Nationalism
- Washington's Farewell Address
- Stay clear of alliances with other countries
- Gibbons vs Ogden
- Supreme Court/Congress had the power to regulate interstate commerce
- Muculloch vs Maryland
- Supreme Court allowed the national bank to rise
- Monroe Doctrine
- President warned European nations to keep out of affairs in the Western hemisphere
- Whisky Rebellion
- Pennsylvania farmers revolted against government to protest tax on whisky.
- Rush Bagot Treaty
- Treaty between U.S. and Great Britain to reduce the number of warships on the Great Lakes
- Embargo
- Government ban on trades with other nations
- Fletcher vs Peck
- Georgia law violated the Constitution
- Dartmouth vs Woodward
- Set precedent that states may not pass laws impairing private contracts
- Pinckney Treaty
- Span and the U.S. gave us everything West of the Appalachian Mountains and part of New Orleans
- Nationalism
- Having pride on one's nation
- Democratic/Republican Party
-
Thomas Jefferson opposed to it
Established by Andrew Jackson
Started with break from Republican Party - Proclamation of Neutrality
- Not taking any specific side
- Sectionalism
- Loyalty to state or region or nation
- Log rolling
- Legislators voting on a bill as a favor to other legislators.
- Missouri Compromise
- allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state
- Naturalization
- A process by which foreigners become citizens
- Alien Act
- series of laws to reduce immigration to the U.S.
- Isolationsism
- To cut off trade with other nations
- No Nothing Party
- Political party to stop foreigners from coming in to U.S.
- Sedition Act
- Right to put someone in jail for speaking out against the government
- Marbury vs Madison
- established the power of Judicial Review
- Strict Intepretation
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Believers of a strict interpretation of the Constitutional ideas
(Thomas Jefferson/Democratic/Republican Party) - Juciciary Act
- A laws that created the federal system of courts
- lame duck
- A president during period of time when a new president is elected and the existing president is still in office.
- Jay Treaty
- An agreement between U.S. and Britain to remove their troops