APUSH Chap 18
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- South Carolina Exposition
- Pamphlet written secretly by Calhoun that called on the states to nullify the federal tariff.
- Anti-Masonic
- Small, short lived third political party that originated a new method of nomoniating pres. canidates.
- N.E. statesman who defended 'liberty and the Union, now and forever, one and inseperable.'
- Webster
- Sky high protectionist measure backed by NE and hated by the S.
- Tariff of Abominations
- The pop. idea that public offices should be handed out on the basis of political support rather than qualifications.
- Spoils system
- The 'moneyed' monster that Clay tried to preserve and Jackson tried to destroy.
- US Bank
- Jackson's treasury department decree that required all public lands to be bought with 'hard' money.
- Specie Circuar
- The sorrowful path along which thousands of southeastern Indians were removed to Oklahoma.
- Trail of Tears
- Legislation which authorized the President to use the army and navy to collect tariffs if necessary.
- Force Bill
- System of keeping gov't funds in separate vaults, est. by Van Buren's 'divorce bill' in 1840
- Independent Treasury
- Whitney's invention- enhanced cotton production and invigorated slavery
- cotton gin
- Americans who protested and sometimes rioted against immigrants
- nationalists
- only major highway constructed by the fed. govt before the civil war
- Cumberland Road
- Fulton's invention that revolutionized river travel
- steamboat
- 'clinton's big ditch' that helped trans. and economy from NYC over great lakes to Chicago
- Erie Canal
- Belief that God ordained US to occupy NA
- manifest destiny
- final compromise line that settled oregon boundary dispute
- 49th parallel
- river that Mexico claimed as Tex-Mex boundary, crossed by Taylor's troops in 1846
- Nuecos (?)
- treaty that ended Mex War
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Controversial amendment, passed in house 'stead of senate, saying that slavery should be forbidden in terrs acquired from Mex
- Wilmot Provisio
- 'new democracy' caused by
- increased stake in politics felt by ordinary cits
- These factors caused J. Quincy Adams' presidency to be a political failure
- anti-western land and Indian policies; stubborn and prickly personality; support for national roads, a national uni, astronomical observatory
- The nullification crisis in SC ended when
- henry Clay pushed through a compromise tariff that enabled SC to save face
- In the aftermath of the successful Texas Revolution...
- Texas petitioned to join the US but was refused admission.
- as late as 1850, over 1/2 of pop was...
- under age of 30
- American painter and inventor of national park system
- George Catlin
- Influx of new immigrants=
- anti-Catholicism
- Industrialization was late b/c
- lack of labor, capital, and consumers
- change in families in early 1800s was
- decline in average number of children
- 1st major improvs in transportation system were
- steamboats and highways