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Strict Interpretation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The idea that the government should obey the Constitution as it is literally written Loose Interpretation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A way of interpreting the Constitution that allows the federal government to take actions that the Constitution doesn't forbid it from taking Judicial Review - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws implied powers - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution Louisiana Purchase - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔territory in western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million Lewis and Clark Expedition - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States John Marshall - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adams; decided several land mark cases
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Marbury v. Madison - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔This case established the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review Fletcher v. Peck - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Supreme Court case which protected property rights and asserted the right to invalidate state laws in conflict with the Constitution McCulloch v. Maryland - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Supreme Court ruling (1819) confirming the supremacy of national over state government Dartmouth College v. Woodward - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Supreme Court ruling that states could not interfere with private contracts Gibbons v. Ogden - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Supreme Court ruling that stated that regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government Tariff of 1816 - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Helped American industry by raising the prices of British manufactured goods, which were often cheaper and of higher quality than those produced in the U.S.
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Missouri Compromise - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories; Added Missouri to the Union as a slave state, and Maine as a free state War Hawks - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Southerners and Westerners who were eager for war with Britain. They had a strong sense of nationalism, and they wanted to takeover British land in North America and expand. Hartford Convention - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Meeting of Federalists near the end of the War of 1812 in which the party listed it's complaints against the ruling Republican Party. These actions were largely viewed as traitorous to the country and lost the Federalist much influence Battle of Tippecanoe - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Battle between Americans and Native Americans. Tecumseh and the Prophet attempted to oppress white settlement in the West, but defeated by William Henry Harrison. Led to talk of Canadian invasion and served as a cause to the War of 1812.
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Barbary Pirates - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Plundering pirates off the Mediterranean coast of Africa; President Thomas Jefferson's refusal to pay them tribute to protect American ships sparked an undeclared naval war with North African nations Embargo Act - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An 1807 law that prohibited American merchants from trading with other countries Nonintercourse Act - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An 1809 law that allowed Americans to carry on trade with all nations except Britain and France Battle of New Orleans - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A battle during the War of 1812 where the British army attempted to take New Orleans. Due to the foolish frontal attack, Jackson defeated them, which gave him an enormous popularity boost. Treaty of Ghent - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Treaty that ended the War of 1812 and maintained prewar conditions Rush-Bagot Agreement - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔1817 agreement that limited American and British naval forces on the Great Lakes
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Spoils System - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends. rotation in office - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Jackson's system of periodically replacing officeholders to allow ordinary citizens to play a more prominent role in government Indian Removal Act - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An 1830 a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River Worcester v. Georgia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Supreme Court decision where the Cherokee were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty; Jackson ignored it Nicholas Biddle - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔President of the Second Bank of the United States; he struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it. pet banks - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A term used by Jackson's opponents to describe the state banks that the federal government
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used for new revenue deposits in an attempt to destroy the Second Bank of the United States Specie Circular - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Issued by President Jackson and was meant to stop land speculation caused by states printing paper money without proper specie (gold or silver) backing it. It required that the purchase of public lands be paid for in specie. It stopped the land speculation and the sale of public lands went down sharply. The panic of 1837 followed. Corrupt Bargain - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the presidential election of 1824 in which Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House, convinced the House of Representatives to elect Adams rather than Jackson. Tariff of Abominations - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South Nullification Crisis - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by the Ordinance of Nullification, an attempt by the state of South Carolina to nullify a federal law passed by the United States Congress.
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Oneida Community - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A group of socio- religious perfectionists who lived in New York. Practiced polygamy, communal property, and communal raising of children. Transcendentalists - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Followers of a belief which stressed self-reliance, self- culture, self-discipline, and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms. Second Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans. Charles Finney - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening, he preached that each person had capacity for spiritual rebirth and salvation and that through individual effort could be saved. Joseph Smith - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Founded Mormonism in New York in 1830 with the guidance of an angel. In 1843, his announcement that God sanctioned polygamy split the Mormons and led to an uprising against them in 1844
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Bringham Young - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Leader of Mormons moved them to Utah so they could practice their religion without outside interference (1843) Temperance Movement - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption Asylum Movement - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Reformers proposed setting up new public institutions such as state-supported prisons, mental hospitals, and poorhouses; hope was that the inmates of these institutions would be cured of their antisocial behavior by being treated to a disciplined pattern of life in some rural setting Dorothea Dix - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. Horace Mann - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔"Father of the public school system," and a proponent of public school reform; set the standard for public schools throughout the nation; lengthened academic year; pro training & higher salaries to teachers
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Slave Codes - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.
