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Mason Dickson Line
1763-1767 deciding between north and south the legality of slavery, south pro slaves (economy built on agriculture and slavery), north anti-slaves. Mason and Dickson drew out line states above were free slaves, states below were slave states -
Treaty of Paris
formally ended the Revolutionary War. British recognize American territorial claims that included most of the land south of the Great Lake -
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US Territorial Expansion
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Tariff Act 1789
protected trade and raised revenues for the federal government. Congress has authority to ay and collect taxes, Duties, imports, and exports -
Judiciary Act
Judiciary branch should consist of one supreme court and such inferior courts as congress decided to establish -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin, separated seeds and cotton, increased slave population, more people using cotton, trading cotton etc, south economy improved -
War on the Judiciary
judiciary act -
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson purchases land from French, unconstitutional v. better for country, agriculture, doubled the land of the US, encouraged trade in Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River. -
Fletcher v. Peck
declared the Court's power to void state laws, this case marked the first time the Supreme Court struck down a state law on constitutional grounds. -
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Second War of Independence (1812)
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Treaty of Ghent
Between US and British, because of war of 1812 -
Tariff Act
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Martin v. Hunter's Lesse
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Era of Good Feelings
time period in US History under President Monroe when partisan disagreements subsided -
James Monroe
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Panic of 1819
financial panic, after war of 1812 -
Dartmouth v. Woodward
the Court promoted business growth by denying states the right to alter or impair contracts unilaterally -
MucCulloch v. Maryland
established the constitutionality of the second Bank of the United States and denied to states the right to exert independent checks on federal authority, also whether a state had to the power to tax a branch of the Bank of the U.S., court said no. -
Tariff of 1820
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Missouri Compromise
above the line is free and below the line is slave. Marks the beginning of sectionalism, division between North and South, -
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Nullification Crisis
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Tariff of 1824
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Gibbons v. Ogden
the court made the federal gov. have more power over interstate trade. -
Andrew Jackson
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Jackson's Bank Veto
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Congress passed 2nd Bank Charter
Congress acted, not as Jackson recommended. A bill to extend the charter of the Bank passed both houses by healthy majorities, though less than the two-thirds required to override a veto. -
Tariffs of Abominations
high protective tax levied on goods coming into the country -
Texas Annexation
Americans living in Mexican state of Texas rebelled from central gov, and established an independent gov. -
Mexican- American War
Pres. James Polk provokes war with mexico