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Monroe/Jackson
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Question | Answer |
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Monroe's background that was significant | he was the last of the Revolutionary War heroes. |
Era of Good Feelings | strong sense of nationalism, no war, and little political divisiveness |
Missouri Compromise | was a result of controversy over slavery and keeping a balance between free and slave states admitted to the union |
Jackson and the Seminoles | President Monroe sent Andrew Jackson to Florida in order to deal with the Seminoles invading Georgia and its white settlers |
Monroe Doctrine | warned European nations not to colonize the Americas any further, stick to their hemisphere |
Election of 1824, candidates and the results | Electoral College Votes of 1824: Jackson (99), J.Q. Adams (84), Crawford (41), Clay (37) |
Corrupt Bargain | Henry Clay, Speaker of the House, campaigned for John Q. Adams who got all of his electoral votes and later became his Secretary of State as a reward |
Personal attacks on wives in Election of 1824 and 1828 | Jackson was not legally married to his wife at first as she was still married to her previous husband, political opponents used this against him |
Spoils System | winner can fire and hire whoever he wants to be in his administration |
Kitchen Cabinet | group of close friends who he relied on for advice |
Indian Removal Act of 1830 | forced South Eastern Native Americans to be marched from their homelands onto reservations in the Plains area, resulting in the Trail of Tears |
Supreme Court decision on Indian Removal Act and how Jackson responded to it | SC ruled against the legislation but Jackson defied this ruling and did it anyway |
Bank War | Henry Clay, Jackson's enemy, wanted to recharter the Second Bank of the US, so Jackson wanted the exact opposite and wanted it dismantled |
South Carolina Nullification Crisis | He threatened to call in troops to make South Carolina comply with the tariffs, South Carolina originally thought they did not have to obey the new federal law on tariffs |
McCulloch v. Maryland | Congress could invoke the Elastic Clause - grants Congress the power to pass whatever laws are deemed “necessary and proper” to help Congress to carry out the enumerated powers. |
Dartmouth v. Woodward | states cannot reverse contracts and charters |
Gibbons v. Ogden | states cannot regulate interstate trade |