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- 12th Amendment
- Created a seperate ballot for president and vice-president
- Convention of 1818
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-Firmly established the border between the United States and Canada at the 49th Parallel
-agreed to joint occupation of the Pacific Northwest - American System
- The plan for using high tariffs to pay for internal improvements
- Hudson River School
- a group of artists that painted primarily landscapes
- Black Hawk
- A Suak American Indian leader who refused to be driven from his land in the Northwest Territories
- Indian Removal Act
- authorized the removal of American Indians who lived east of the Mississippi
- James Fenimore Cooper
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-He popularized a type of writing called Historical Fiction
-Wrote The last of the Mohicans - Andrew Jackson
- the 7th President of the Untied States
- George Caleb Bingham
- tried to combine rugged landscapes with scenes of frontier life
- Rush-Bagot Agreement
- limited naval power of both sides on the Great Lakes
- John Quincy Adams
- 6th President of the United States
- Henry Clay
- Kentucky representative who helped Congress reach the Missouri Compromise
- Nominating Conventions
- public meetings to select the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates
- John C. Calhoun
- Jackson's running mate in the election of 1828
- Martin Van Buren
- Jackson's Secretary of State
- States' rights
- the idea that the federal government's authority is strictly limited by the Constitution
- Spoils System
- the practice of rewarding supporters with government jobs
- William Henry Harrison
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-9th President of the United States
-He belonged to the Whig Party - nullification crisis
- the dispute between the state and federal governments
- Indian Territory
- a new American Indian homeland created by Congress in what is now called Oklahoma
- Whig Party
- Jackson's opponents formed this party
- Worcester v. Georgia
- the Supreme Court ruled that the state's had no authority over the Cherokee
- Cumberland Road
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-the first federal road project
-it ran from Cumberland to Wheeling..Later it was expanded to reach to Illinois - Osecola
- A Seminole leader who called upon his followers to resist removal by force
- Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee's 800 mile march from their land. Almost 1/4 of their people died.
- Missouri Compromise
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-Missouri enters the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state
-Slavery would be prohibited in new territories north of the 36 30 line - Erie Canal
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-ran from Albany to Buffalo
-Opened up transportation to all of the towns on the great lakes to New York City - Democratic Party
- This party was formed, in part, by followers of Andrew Jackson because they thought that Jackson was robbed in the election of 1824
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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-Famous writer who wrote the novel A New England Tale
-Most successful female author of her time - Washington Irving
- famous American writer who wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
- Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
- the Choctaw gave more the 7.5 million acres of their land away
- Sequoya
- a Cherokee who developed a written language
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- was created to oversee federal policy toward American Indians
- John Ross
- A successful plantation owner who was also elected chief of the Cherokee
- Panic of 1837
- financial crisis that occurred while Van Buren was president
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- Spain gave Florida to the United States
- McCulloch v. Maryland
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The Supreme Court:
- supported the right of the national bank to exist
-federal law is superior to state law - Monroe Doctrine
- declared that North and South America were off limits to future colonization by any foreign power
- Tariff of Abominations
- a protective tariff that southerners believed favored the north and was a clear example of the federal government abusing its power over the states
- Daniel Webster
- Famous Senator from Massachusetts
- Kitchen Cabinet
- Jackson's informal group of advisors
- Treaty of Greenville
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-Gave the U.S. access to the American Indian lands in the Northwest Territory
-American Indians received $20,000 in goods and acknowlegment of their claim to the lands they still held - Right of Deposit
- this right would allow American boats to transfer their goods at New Orleans without peaying fees on their cargo
- Jay's Treaty
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-U.S. agreed to pay pre-revolution debts
-British would abandon forts on the northwestern frontier
-Small U.S. merchant ships were allowed to trade certain goods in the Caribbean - John Jay
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who was sent to Britian by Washington to try to avert war
- Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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-stated that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutinal
-state governmnets had the right to ignore laws that they believed were unconstitutional - Alien and Sedition Acts
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-allowed the president to have foreigh residents removed from the country
-citizens could not write, utter, or publish any hostile words towards the government - Federalist Party
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-wanted to make the federal government stronger
-wanted to promte industry and trade - Political Parties
- groups that help elect government officals and shape policies