Politics of the United States

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Rutherford B. Hayes ? 19th U.S. president, Republican that ran against Democrat Tilden. He received fewer popular and electoral votes, but he still became president after the Compromise of 1877 James Garfield ? Elected president in 1880 on the Republican ticket, Garfield was murdered by Stalwart Charles Guiteau claiming that the Conklingites would now get all the good jobs now that Arthur was president. Chester Arthur ? Vice president of Garfield; became president after a Stalwart assassinated Garfield. He refused to award Stalwarts any federal posts and helped legislate civil-service reform by signing the Pendleton Act in 1883

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Tariff

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Chapter 18 John Tyler ? Originally Democrat, ran as a Whig and shot down most Whig legislation. Refused to revive BUS and disapproved funding internal improvements, passed Tariff of 1842. Successfully annexed Texas James Polk ? Democrat, elected as president on Manifest Destiny platform, lowered protective tariff, revived independent treasury, acquired Oregon, seized California in Mexican War Caroline and Creole Incidents British force sink American ship Caroline British officials in the Bahamas offered asylum to 130 Virginia slaves who had rebelled and captured the American ship Creole Aroostook War ? Feuding of lumberjacks, small skirmishes on Maine?s claimed territory of the northern/eastern border that was also claimed by England.

AP European History Spielvogel Chapter 19 annotated lecture notes

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Chapter 19 A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon The American Revolution Reorganization, Resistance, and Rebellion Britain?s victory in the Seven Years? War ? allowed them to raise and enforce old taxes onto colonists which obviously angered them 50% of adult male population can vote Indirect political representation in England colonists had no say in what was done to them. Pissed them off. ?No taxation without representation? Boston Tea Party ? colonists threw tea into the harbor to symbolize their want for less taxation War for Independence Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 ? created an outcry for a revolution Declaration of Independence, 1776 July 4th and became an enlightened document that the French loved and used in their writings

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Great Triumvirate

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Conservatism in the United States

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Chapter 13 The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840 ? The "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824 There were 4 main "Republican" candidates in the election of 1824:? Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford, and Henry Clay. No candidate won the majority of the electoral votes, so, according to the Constitution, the House of Representatives had to choose the winner.? Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House, was thus eliminated although he did have much say in who became president.? Clay convinced the House to elect John Quincy Adams as president.? Adams agreed to make Clay the Secretary of State for getting him into office.? Much of the public felt that a "corrupt bargain" had taken place because Andrew Jackson had received the popular vote.? ? A Yankee Misfit in the White House

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CHAPTER 13: THE RISE OF A MASS DEMOCRACY Answer the terms and the questions for this chapter. The "Corrupt Bargain? or 1824 Know: Andrew Jackson- Andrew Jackson was the general who defeated the British at New Orleans during the war of 1812. He also defeated the Spanish, British, and the Indians when he invaded Florida, something that brought two different types of judgment upon him. He is either known as the Leader of the Poor or as ?King Andrew?. He?s also on the twenty dollar bill. He was greatly favored in the west because his strong opposition against corruption in the government and advocated the spoils system. Henry Clay-

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CHAPTER 13: THE RISE OF A MASS DEMOCRACY Answer the terms and the questions for this chapter. The "Corrupt Bargain? or 1824 Know: Andrew Jackson- Andrew Jackson was the general who defeated the British at New Orleans during the war of 1812. He also defeated the Spanish, British, and the Indians when he invaded Florida, something that brought two different types of judgment upon him. He is either known as the Leader of the Poor or as ?King Andrew?. He?s also on the twenty dollar bill. He was greatly favored in the west because his strong opposition against corruption in the government and advocated the spoils system. Henry Clay-

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CHAPTER 13: THE RISE OF A MASS DEMOCRACY Answer the terms and the questions for this chapter. The "Corrupt Bargain? or 1824 Know: Andrew Jackson- Andrew Jackson was the general who defeated the British at New Orleans during the war of 1812. He also defeated the Spanish, British, and the Indians when he invaded Florida, something that brought two different types of judgment upon him. He is either known as the Leader of the Poor or as ?King Andrew?. He?s also on the twenty dollar bill. He was greatly favored in the west because his strong opposition against corruption in the government and advocated the spoils system. Henry Clay-

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Federalist Papers

Conservatism in the United States

Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

Chapter 7 and 8 key terms George Washington - George Washington was the first president of the United States. He fought the hessians at the battle of Trenton, and won. He?s a tall man and a born leader. He held two presidential terms. Hamilton?s Financial Plan - Alexander Hamilton was in charge of the Treasury. The United States was in debt from the American Revolution, so he created the National Bank to give out loans with interest to pay off the debt. Loose Construction, Strict Construction - the belief that all powers not specifically granted to the central government were reserved to the states under the Constitution; the belief that what the Constitution did not permit it forbade; proposed by Jefferson

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