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transition to new manufacturing processes - North shifted from agriculture to city labor (ie. textile industry)
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7th president of the United States; supported slavery and its expansion; vetoes the 2nd National Bank Charter that lead to the first depression
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1.He believed the country should focus on industry and trading 2.Wanted central government to regulate and tax all trade 3.Wanted a bank for the Federal government which would regulate all national funds and taxes
- Wanted to assume all states war debt to build credit as a country
- Loose Construction
The government can do more than just what is listed in the constitution
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A large religious revival in the late 17 through the early 18 hundreds in which there was a large spread of new ideas in America including abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, and the underground railroad
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establishes a three branch federal government with checks and balances and explains the election process for the nations democratic republican structure
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Composed of the first 10 amendments of the U.S. constitution. The Bill of Rights, written by James Madison (Founding Father/4th president) outlined specific prohibitions on government in the United States and constitutional protection for individuals.
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2nd President. First Vice President to George Washington. First President to serve only one term. XYZ affairs lead to an almost war with France called Quasi War. Passed Alien and Sedition acts that caused a lot of upset in the country because it was unconstitutional.
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Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures insisted that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The Resolutions argued that the states had the right to nullify unconstitutional laws made by congress
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The Alien Acts allowed the deportation of foreigners and make it harder to come into the US and the Sedition Acts made it so you could not publish anything against government officials
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the supreme court's ability to rule on whether or not laws are constitutional, came as a result of the Marbury vs Madison court case
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A reward given to public supporter who helped a political party win an election
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impressing US sailors, forcing them to fight. native Americans joined both sides to help fight. Treaty of Ghent ends war
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a person who supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S
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big slave rebellions. effect: harsher more powerful slave laws
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Warning to Europe to stay out of Western Hemisphere (North and South America)
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Signed by Andrew Jackson, a law letting the president negotiate with the Native tribes in the South to be removed from current home and move west
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An abolitionist who made an antislavery journal, helped organized abolitionist community
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American ideology that expansion west was a divine right
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Deciding whether Texas was a U.S territory or Mexican territory
Texas annexation: incorporation of Texas into the Union as the 28th state
Mexico considered the border to be the Nueces River while the U.S claimed the border as the Rio Grande River
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Deciding whether Texas was a U.S territory or Mexican territory
Texas annexation: incorporation of Texas into the Union as the 28th state
Mexico considered the border to be the Nueces River while the U.S claimed the border as the Rio Grande River
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People of a place make the rules of that place
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First female rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"
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People of a place make the rules of that place
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5 separate bills passed together by the United States Congress in September of 1850
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The support of one's region over one's country.
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network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape into free states
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Act passed which allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30
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Dred Scott was a slave who went to court/attempted to sue the court because he wanted to be liberated; due to his ideology that if you once lived in a free territory, you should be granted freedom. The Supreme Court then created new rules regarding what slaves can or cannot do/voice in court, creating tension between the North and South
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Abolitionist who believed violence was the only way to abolish slavery and who led the raid on Harpers Ferry
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19th election, between Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge. Was a democratic vs republican election.
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Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union no matter what, even if that meant war. As the war went on Lincoln's goal changed to abolishing slavery to end the war.
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Lincoln won 40% of popular vote all from North. Upset Southerners because he was elected without southerners vote. South feared he would abolish slavery. This reasons encouraged the south to secede and form their own nation(1861). Fort Sumter was the first battle, it ended at the Surrender at Appomattox Court House(1865). During the war Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves in the South and Gettysburg Address which further encouraged the civilians. ~680,000 deaths.
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An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in southern states free
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written by Abraham Lincoln. dedication to those who battled during the Battle of Gettysburg by giving them their own sacred cemetery
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