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| The midnight judges were: | 16 federal judgeships filed at the last minute by outgoing president john adams |
| what legal principle was established by the case of marbury vs. madison? | judicial review |
| the most noteworthy accomplishment of American keaders during the first 2 decades of the 19th century was the | monroe doctrine |
| chief justice john marshall's opinions supported | the federalists and ideas of strict interpretation of the constitution |
| how did jefferson plan to reverse what he considered to be a drift to despotism in the 1790s? | repeal the most internal taxes and close embassies and reduce the army |
| why did jefferson consider french ownership of louisiana unacceptable? | the US would be stuck in a conflict between other nations if a war took place and would be unable to avoid foreign entanglements |
| after the war of 1812, henry clay called for an "american system" which meant that.... | a second national bank would make the nation economically self-sufficent and free from depending upon europe |
| the basic thrust of john quincy adams' foreign policy was... | to remain out of european wars and declaring no colonization of the US |
| what was the basic conflict between Jefferson and the quids? | his involvement in the Yazoo land scandal |
| in McCulloch versus Maryland, the Supreme court declared... | states weren't allowed to tax a federal institution/ national corporation dependent on foreign trade |
| jefferson favored the power of state governments over the power of federal governments because | state governments were more responsive to popular will than federal governments |
| the treaty of Ghents provisions? | fix boundaries between US and Canada, restore status quo antebellum, neutral rights became a dead issue, peace negotiations |
| removing officeholders from the rival political party and replacing them with members of your own party is known as? | the spoils system |
| the difference between hard money and soft money? | hard money- specie, soft money- paper |
| why did van buren lose the election of 1840? | wrote letters rather than campaigning |
| why is mormonism decribed as pushing against the currents of society? | rejeced the bible as the sole source of salvation + revelation, substituted polygamy for monogamy, elevated economic cooperation instead of competition |
| which political party was the anti-bank hard money partyin 1840? | democrats/ locofocos |
| the seneca falls declaration of sentiments called for? | the assertation that men and women were created equal- 12 resolutions werepassed including the women's right to vote (only one that wasnt unanomous) |
| the force bill let jackson | use arms to collect custom duties in south carolina |
| what was part pf the democratization of politics in the Age of Jackson? | poll taxes, written ballots, elected offices |
| what was one of the reasons why jackson vetoed the rechartering of the bank of the US? | it favored the wealthy and took power away from state banks + states |
| what happened to the american political system during the antebellun period? | democrats + whigs replaced republicans + federalists and no more propert requirements for voters |
| ther theory that the union is a compact among the states and that a state has the right to override a federal law is known as? | nullification |
| the senate rejected the treaty annexing texas by calhoun because | van buren and henry clay felt annexation would provoke a sectional conflict each was trying to avoid |
| in commonwealth versus hunt, the ruling was | labor unions were not illegal monopolies that restricted trade |
| manifest destiny meant | to spread over the continent for God's will |
| why did Polk win the presidency of 1844? | Cass and van buren deadlocked each other's nomination out and the deadlock was broken by the nomination of polk, and luysen made catholic democrats turn out to vote for polk |
| what were polk's objectives in oregon? | proposed to use the threat of hostilities to persuade british to accept a division of oregon at the 49th parallel which would give the US the harbors of the southern tip of vancouver island |
| what did polk want from mexico in 1845 and 1846? | rio grande to be the border of texas and US possession of California |
| why did calhoun believe the US had no power to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession | his idea was that since slaves were viewed as property of their owners, the slaveowners were protected under the constitution to carry their property wherever they went, which made the missouri compromise unconstitutional |
| the main reason most european immigrants came to the US between 1815 and 1860... | religious freedom/ better economic condition/ potato famine |
| cause of tense relations between mexican government and american residents in texas after 1830? | american slaveholders continued to enter texas despite the forbiddance of the mexican government |
| anti-catholic sentiment was based on: | surge of immigration, warning of samuel morse that europe was sending catholic immigrants to destroy the republican institutions, A PLEA FOR THE WEST, Maria monk's book |
| squatter sovereignity and popular sovereignity refer to | lewis cass' dpctrine that congress should let the question of slavery in the territories be determined by the people who settled there |
| wilmot proviso: | introduced ammendment to an appropriations bill that stated texas for slaveholders, california and new mexico for free labor |
