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Fletcher vs. Peck
declared act of GA legislature as violation of contract
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Gibbons vs. Ogden
State's power over commerce, and could NOT interfere with federal control over interstate commerce
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McColloch vs. Maryland
power of a State to tax a federal intrumentality implied the power to destroy that instrumentality and, therefore, such taxation was unconstitutional
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in 1st half of 19th century Cherokee efforts gained support for retaining Ga lands from
Supreme Court
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the authority of State governments included the power to decide whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional
the Position of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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The natural path of armies between capitals hampered by wide rivers and estuaries
Why Union and Confederate troops did not attack each others' capitals.
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Baptism of children of baptized but unconverted Puritans
what Halfway Covenant provided
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new states from Northwest Territory , = footing with original states
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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Forestallment of possible European intervention:
Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862
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Absence of aristocracy:
Reason by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America
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Grant Subsidies to encourage industrial development:
action NOT by first Congress of U.S.
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Principal issue on which U.S. sought settelment with G.B. at outset of War of 1812?
end to impressment
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Stamp Act Crisis reason that isn't important to American Revolution is--
colonists ddemonstrated their willingness to use violence rather than legal means to frustrate British policy
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young unmarried women from rural New England:
Majority of MA textile mills workers in 1830's
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colonial Pennsylvania characteristic:
No established church
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Ireland=
Greatest # of 1st/2 of 19th century immigrants
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NE American Indian tribes at time of beginning of European colonization were-
hindered from different political and linguistic beliefs
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Most likely to OPPOSE "Manifest Destiny"
Whig Party members during Mexican War
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T.Jefferson's "We are all republicans- we are all federalists" meant that
principles of American government were ABOVE party politics
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Stono Rebellion + NY conspiracy trials of 1741 revealed ...?
Resistance to slavery
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most likely to oppose ratification of Constitution in 1787-1789
Farmers in isolated areas (weren't represented)
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Women generally lost control of her property when she married
True statement of married woman in colonial era
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G.B. justification for occupation of posts in U.S. after Treaty of Paris?
U.S. had violated the treaty clauses dealing with the restoration of Loyalist property
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Stressed importance of inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity
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immediate effect of Emancipation Proclamation in 1863:
strengthen moral cause of the Union
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"American System" NOT call for
sale of federal lands to finance higher education
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Mexican policy of the gov. toward Tx?
encouraged American SETTLEMENT in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's
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Rejected call for direct subsidies to manufacturers was--
a denied economic proposal by Alexander Hamilton
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Major reason why T.Jefferson interested in Purchasing LA --
hoped to preserve an agricultural society by making abundant lands available to future generations
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result from Andrew Jackson administration:
number of banks, each issuing its own paper money, increased
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purpose of Harvard and Yale:
supply an adequate amount of ministers.
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argument between G.B. and its American colonies 1760-1770 over "virtual representation" concerned
Parliament's ability to reflect colonial interests
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election of 1800 also known as "another revolution" bc:
party in power stepped down after losing election
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14th Amendment; Congress concerned with :
protecting legislation guarenteeing civil rights to the former slaves
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consequance of "tariff of abominations" - led to:
enunciation of the doctrine of nullification
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accurate statement of Monroe Doctrine:
immediately accepted as international law
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During War for Independence, principal reason why US gov. sought diplomatic recognition from foreign powers
facilitate purchase of arms and borrowing of money from other nations
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increase slave labor 1810-1860 due to
natural population from inc. of American -born slaves
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other than cotton gin, Eli Whitney's contribution:
introduction of interchangeable parts
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William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator
associated w/ "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of slaves"
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Scotch-Irish, German, English immigrants
moved in great #s into Appalachia as American Indians of region were defeated
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"Lowell system"
A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities
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theme of individualism most evident:
Ralph W. Emerson
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Violence exhibited in: Shay's , Whiskey, Boston Tea Party ?
Violence was directed at "outsiders" or representatives of distant authority
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mercantilist system:
subordination of the colonial economy to that of the mother country
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