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unit 4 term-causes
APUSH, Jacksonian Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| term | causes |
| Seneca Falls Convention | the way women were treated in society and their lack of rights |
| nullification | The state gaovernments didnt want the federal government to have to much power |
| Trail of Tears | A law passed by Andrew Jackson that removed the federal protection of Indian tribes in the south and allowed states to evacuate any Indians in there territory. |
| Dorothea Dix | Poor conditions in asylums and prisons, lack of support to make reforms |
| Force Act (1833) | South Carolina's desire to nullify the tariff of 1832. |
| Lucretia Mott | unfair rights of women and the unconstitutionality of slavery led to her actions |
| compact theory | Sectonalism, Unfavorable Tariffs, Alien and Sedition Acts |
| Brigham Young | A mob attacked and killed Joseph Smith in Illinois, causing them to move to Utah with their new leader. |
| Specie Circular | State banks in the South and West responded to demands by issuing a new flood of paper money. |
| John C. Calhoun | Fighting with Mexico for the Mexican border |
| spoils system/rotation in office | Andrew Jackson becoming president |
| Mexican Cession | americans in disputed lands the mexicans thought they owned led to a mexican attack then the army stepped in |
| Oregon Territory | Some time after the Lewis and Clark expedition, fur trading began to take hold in what would be the Oregon Territory. Many European countries, as well as the United States, wanted to take this land for themselves, and eventually joint ownership between th |
| National Banking Act | The use of state issued currency needed to be stopped, so that trade could be regulated more effectively between the States. A sum of funds also needed to be raised for the upcoming civil war. |
| Bank war | Biddle pulled the Second Bank of the United States out of the depression, which made the banks more prominent. As a result more people trusted banks more, and the Second National Bank's power grew. |
| Gadsden Purchase | The Gadsen purchase was partially caused by the belief in manifest destiny. It also may have been caused by leftover desires or feelings for new land after the Mexican war. The united States also wanted to add new land in the Texas area to boost trade and |
| Cyrus McCormick | A demand for the mechanical reaper came about because there was an increase in land and not sufficient enough tools or farming equipment needed on the farm. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | The United states bought all of New Mexico from Mexico , and thus completed their Manifest Destiny, |
| John Slidell | James K Polk sent him to negotiate the border with mexico |
| Neal Dow | Hard liquor was thought to lead to crime and abuse in society. The rich were worried that the poor would become drunk and riot in the streets. Families could be ruined from a husband being drunk. Drunkness could lead to civil disorder. |
| Independent Treasury | The Independent Treasury was proposed by Martin Van Beuren as a direct result of the Panic of 1837. |
| American Anti-slavery Society | The major cause of the Ideology of questioning the morality of slavery, and ultimately belief that it should be abolished was directly caused by the Second Great Awakening. |
| Second Great Awakening | concerns over Deism, Unitarianism, rising number of Catholics |
| John Deere | Allowed more land to be plowed more efficiently. Since less people were working on the farms, they were able to take over the well-needed jobs in factories. |
| Irish immigration | This country depended on potatoes as their main food supply because of its availability and price. |
| Maine Laws | The temperance movement |
| Removal of Deposits | The Bank of the United States' charter was almost up. |
| Mexican-American War | After the United States annexed Texas, Mexico still believed that part of the land was theirs. The US declared war when Mexicans started causing problems/conflicts over the boundary lines. |
| antebellum | The United States began experiencing industrial growth, technological advances, factory development, and government involvement in an indirect way (laissez faire) |
| Worcester v Georgia | Indians were on land without a license |
| abolitionists | The second great awakening, previous religious and moral beliefs |
| Mormons | the preacher Joseph Smith led this group into the mountains of Utah, where they established their beliefs and lived. |
| James K. Polk | Martin Van Buren was against the annexation of Texas so the democratic party bumped him from vice president to presidential candidate |
| Prigg v Pennsylvania | slavecatcher pleaded not guilty and said federal law supercedes state law and carried case to supreme court to decide |
| Horace Mann | Children were in need of education so they wouldn't turn out to be incapable of self-government. The quality of education differed throughout the classes and som ewanted the gap to be closed. |
| Tariff of Abominations | Andrew Jackson wanted to support the tax and get it passed in Congress for the purpose of sabotaging John Quincy Adams’ Presidency. |
| Charles River Bridge case | The Charles River Bridge COmpay was granted a charter to build a bridge over the Charles river, connecting Boston and Charlestown. The Warren Bridge company recieves a similar charter to build a bridge over the same river, connecting the same cities. It w |
| Commonwealth v Hunt | Boston Journeymen Bootmakers' Society demanded an employer fire one of its members who had disobeyed the society's rules, in fear of a strike the employer agreed but the dismissed employee complained to the district attorney and the Boston Municipal Cour |
| American Colonization Society | The establishment of Liberia as a slave refuge. (most Africans wanted to stay in America and have the same rights and equality of on white citizen.) |
| Manifest Destiny | The population was growing along with religion, freedom, and democracy. Land expansion for America was in high demand because people wanted more farming land, slave land, and more space to spread religion, freedom , and democracy. |
| Transcendentalism | Many Americans were unhappy with the Unitarian way of life and sought a more spiritual experience with nature. This led them to a certain German ideal of being one with nature and God as well as self-reliance, the basis of transcendentalism. |
| Whigs | After Jackson became president, his strong dislike for a National Bank causes him to try and abolish it. The Whigs, led by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, form the Whig party against Jackson, believing he was becoming corrupt and tyrannical with his power. |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 1839 fighting breaks out between Canada lumber jacks and the Maine millitia poisoning anglo-American relations. |
| Jacksonian Democracy | The second Bank of the US and the forming of a stronger national government. |
| 2nd Am. Party System | Jackson created the Democratic party in his own image, and the Whig party was really a retaliation party to oppose the Democrats, that evolved into a prominent political party. |
| National Republicans | John Quincy Adams presidency, Jackson's presidency and the internal infrastructure collapse during the Adams administration. |
| States’ rights | Residual anger of Southerners who were harmed by the tariff of 1828 and believed that the federal government did not listen to state interests when concerning economic policies |
| Tariff of 1828 | Congress wanted a protective tariff to prevent the market from flooding with cheap foreign goods. Jackson promoters believed that by putting in a protective tariff he would gain the vote of manufacturers, industrialists, and some farmers. |
| South Carolina Exposition | South Carolinas citizens are angry with the tariff of 1828, they believe it is unjust and unconstitutional. South Carolina is the most vocal state in this matter. |
| 2nd Bank of the United States | The main cause for its creation is the panic of 1819. |
| Clayton-Bulwer Treaty | United States and Britain were eager to focus their interests in Central America. |
| Shakers | The founder of this religious group, Ann Lee, started this group in England. They then moved to America after religious persecution where they struggled to survive. After some hardship =, the group finally began to grow |
| National Republicans | This party was formed because of their different views from Andrew Jackson. They agreed with more of the views of the Whig Party |
| Webster-Hayne Debate | The Nullification Crisis |
| Clay’s Compromise | The north and the south were about to go to war |
| Nicholas Biddle | Was a big supporter of American independence and supported bejamin franklin |
| Speculation | land ordinance of 1785, dividing and sub diving the land. |
| Wildcat Banks | was applied to an unstable bank. |
| temperance | Whiskey was popular in the 1800's because because it was cheeper than beer and milk, and it was safer than water. |
| Liberty Party | Formed because of the fact that the leader American Anti-Slavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison, believed the Constitution was an evil-pro slavery document and should be condemned as such. |
| utopianism | Second Great Awakening, industrialization, declining morals, any other problems of American society, |
| Pet Banks | With Andrew Jackson vetoing the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States, Jackson moved the funds to 23 state run banks, which were then referred to by Jackson's opponents as this, impiling that Jackson picked those Banks because they were |
| Indian Removal Act | growing need for farmland conflicting with native americans desire to hold tribal lands |
| Young America | Nationalist feelings, the idea of manifest destiny, divine providence |
| cult of domesticity/true womanhood | sexist and religious beliefs of the period |
| DeTocqueville/Democracy in America | The French Revolution and the Enlightenment period. |
| Oneida Community | it caused transcendentalism which said you looked to yourself for the answers to life instead of listening to God or a god. |
| Brook Farm | The transcendentalist movement |
| “Corrupt Bargain” | Henry Clay wanted the position of Speaker of the House, as be believed it would make him more able to be elected President. |
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