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National - States Rights Questions up to Jackson for Midterm
Question | Answer |
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Law which authorized the president to use military force to collect tariffs | Force Bill |
Part of the Constitution that Hamilton and Marshall believed justified Congress taking actions, such as establishing a National Bank, to promote commerce | "Necessary and proper" clause |
Group who argued in favor of a strong central government | Federalists |
Written anonymously in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts; said that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
Published anonymously by John C. Calhoun in 1828, this pamphlet declared that a state could declare a federal tariff to be null and void | South Carolina Exposition and Protest |
Dramatic discussion concerning states' rights doctrine and whether states had the power to declare a law unconstitutional | Webster-Hayne debate |
Group who opposed the ratification of the Constitution because it gave more power to the federal government and less to the states, and because it did not ensure individual rights | AntiFederalists |
Proposal by Alexander Hamilton that the federal government pay off state debts from the war | Assumption plan |
Bill that Jackson vetoed because he felt the federal government should not pay for internal improvements in a road internal to one state (Kentucky, home of Henry Clay whom Jackson hated) | Maysville Road |
Hamilton's proposal to Congress to set up an economic policy to encourage industry | Report on Manufacturers |
Stated that a large country would contain many factions that would cancel each other out and prevent one faction from gaining power | Federalist |
Crisis over this almost led to civil war with South Carolina which had passed an Ordinance of Nullification declaring this to be null and void | Tariff of Abominations |
Doctrine that states could declare federal laws unconstitutional | Nullification |
Issued by President Jackson by forcing people to use gold or silver to purchase public land | Specie Circular |
Idea to use federal money to finance internal improvements, strengthen the national bank, and have a tariff on imports; proposed by Henry Clay and supported by President Monroe | American System |