Ap US Terms Ch. 12
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- Florida Purchase Treaty 1819
- Spain ceded FL and gave us shaky claims to Oregon and we in return gave them TX.
- Russo-American Treaty 1824
- the russian czar fixed his Alaskan boundary so that he had the panhandle of Alaska
- Peculiar Institution
- Slavery because it went against everything the US stood for, except we still did it.
- Protective Tariff
- the policy of preserving domestic producers or by placing barriers on imported goods through a high tariff. Started w. Clay's American system
- 2nd Bank of the US - 1816
- coming from nationalist feelings after the war of 1812, later headed by Nicholas Biddle.
- McCulloch vs. Maryland
- tried to destroy the MD BUS by taxing its banknotes; declared unconst.; strengthened Fed. gov't and used loose construction.
- Tariff of 1816
- one of the first protective Tariffs that raised the tax to 20% on imports. Helped Eastern Manufacturing to flourish.
- Panic of 1819
- After the era of good feelings = panic. overspeculation of land, forclosure of farms, people put in debtor's prisons.
- Gibbons v. Ogden - 1824- the "steamboat case"
- NY tried to grant a private waterborne commerce monopoly = NO! only congress can control interstate commerce. Blow to state's rights.
- Bonus Bill 1817
- passed by congress to give states 1.5M for internal improvements, but VETOED by Madison who said states should do it themselves.
- Battle of Horseshoe Bend 1814
- Led by Andrew Jackson - effectively crushed the creek indians and left the west open for safer settlment
- Fletcher v. Peck 1810
- Georgia gave 35 million acres of the MI territory to private speculators. Supreme Ct. decides the grant was a contract and said state cannot make contracts. Illustrated: pwer of supreme ct. to invalidate state laws inflicting with constitution.
- Land Speculators
- people that gambled on land and invested in it. real-estate like people that put money on acres and how they would be sold.
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Monroe Doctrine
a. non-colonization
b. non-intervention -
Pres. Monroe's attempt to stop unnecessecary alliances that would hamper US expansion and economy. 1823
a. no old world govs. could seize/acquire more land in the new world.
b. warning against foreign monarchs getting up in our buisnass. - Dartmouth v. Woodward
- Dartmouth college had a charter during reign of king george and the state of NH wanted to revoke the charter = Marshall says that Dartmouth is "grandfathered in" by a state protecting it and cannot be dominated by it.
- Treaty of 1818
- Monroe and England neither brit nor US had to surrender = verified boundries of LA and permitted the US to share fisheries with Canada. Also a 10-year joint occupation of Oregon.
- the American System - 1824
- A new easy bank for all, protective tariff, and manufacturing.
- Tippecanoe
- Harrison's big time Victory in which he stormed Tecumseh's HQ and burned it to the ground. 1811 = a major indian defeat.
- USS Constitution/ Old Ironsides
- notable ship of war during 1812 that defeated the british for once b/c we had better ironsides and a better navy!
- Battle of the Thames 1813
- Tecumseh killed and the indian dream done with.
- Land Act of 1820
- gave the West who was forced to ally with other sections b/c it was weak and wanted chaper land = a buyer could by up to 80 acres of land at a min. of 1.25 an acre in cash.
- Wildcat Banks
- an uncontrolled speculative bank that issues notes w/out sufficient capital to back them up
- Tallmadge Agreement
- A cause of the MO compromise said that no more slaves can be brought to MO and the slave kids already there are free. the south saw this as a bigtime threat.
- Cohens v. VA
- right of the supreme court to review decisions of the state courts in all questions involving powers of the federal government.