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test #3
AP US History
Question | Answer |
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McCulloch vs. Maryland | An attempt by Maryland to destroy a branch of the bank of the US by imposing tax. Outcome:only congress is allowed to impose tax |
Gibbons vs. Ogden | Attempt by NY to grant private monopoly between NY and NJ. Outcome: only the congress is allowed to control state monopoly |
Fletcher vs. Peck | State bribed into granting 35 million acres of land with a contract, someone tried to take it away. Outcome: the constitution didn't allow state law to impair contracts |
1818 treaty with GB | allowed America to share a fishery with Canada, established the Canadian border, joint power of Oregon |
Florida "Purchase" Treaty | Spain gave Florida and Oregon in exchange for Texas |
Monroe Doctrine | non-colonization: tried to put colonization to rest non-intervention: wanted Europe to keep their monarch influence out of the western hemisphere |
Panic of 1819 | Brought deflation, bankruptcies, bank failures, unemployment, soup kitchens, debtor's prisons |
Sectionalism | North and South fighting over whether the new states in the West will become slave or free territory |
Tallmadge Amendment | The new state of Missouri wanted to become a slave state, but the amendment said no more slaves should be brought in and gave freedom to children who were slaves already |
Outcome of Tallmadge | Defeated in the Senate, the South felt North was gaining more power and more votes in the House of Reps |
Missouri Compromise | Congress took Missouri as slave state, Maine and Massachusetts broke apart, the rest of Louisiana Purchase was not allowed slaves |
"Blue Light" Federalist | flashed lanterns to alert the British h when America was trying to escape |
GB's Orders in Council | Closed European ports to foreign trade, unless the goods stopped at British ports first |
Embargo Act | Forbade the export of all goods from the US |
Non-Intercourse Act | Similar to Embargo Act except aimed towards Britain and France |
Rush-Bagot agreement | Between America and Britain limited naval power on the lakes |
Clay's American Banking System | Provide easy and abundant credit, protective tariff so home manufacturing can flow, network of roads and canals have raw materials from South and goods produced from East, this unified the country |
Judiciary Act | created 16 new federal judges and judicial offices |
judicial review | power of the court to determine if laws are constitutional |
proclamation act | 1763 |