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    rivalries with others‚ such as Vice President John C. Calhoun of South Carolina‚ which led Jackson to accept policies and veto those in which Calhoun would be identified with. For example‚ during the first year of Jackson’s administration‚ some issues concerning internal improvement were halted‚ one being the Maysville Road Bill. For Van Buren‚ it was easy to bring Jackson into opposition to internal improvements and thus to federal programs with which Calhoun had long been identified (Tindall/Shi P.336)

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    Text Questions Pgs. 234-243 1.What fears were present in the minds of most Americans as they entered an era of economic change/industrialization and westward expansion in the early 19c? Some feared that the nations rapid growth would produce social chaos and insisted that the countries first priority must be to establish order and a clear system of authority. Others thought the greatest danger was privilege and that the society’s goal should be to eliminate the favored status of powerful elites and

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    WhatistherelativesignificanceofeachtermasacauseofCivilWar? 
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"By the 1850s the Constitution‚ originally framed as an instrument of national unity‚ had become a source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it has created." 
Assess the validity of this statement using your knowledge of the period 1850-1861. Part III * Compromiseof1850 * Fugitive Slave Act‚ 1850 * Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ 1852 * Gadsen Purchase‚ 1853 * Kansas-Nebraska

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    The Presidential Election of 1828 was different from any other presidential election that had ever taken place in America. Why? This was the first presidential election in which all males could vote. Andrew Jackson campaigned as the candidate of the ordinary people. In 1828‚ the ordinary non-landowners became Jackson’s strongest supporters‚ and with their votes‚ he won the Presidential Election of 1828. He championed the cause of the ordinary man throughout his entire presidency. BITS (acronym

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    the following were accomplishments of monroes administration except- the spoils system 5. under the provisions of the adams-onis treaty- spain ceded all of florida to the united states 6. all of the following were results of the Missouri compromise except- the tallmage amendment was enacted into law 7. in the 1830s

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    The Southern states were led to secede from the Union by many different factors‚ including the question of slavery‚ the election of Abraham Lincoln‚ and the “right of self government.” In 1850‚ John C. Calhoun asked the question‚ “What is it that has endangered the Union?” in his speech "The Clay Compromise Measures‚" and continued on to say‚ “...the immediate cause is the almost universal discontent which pervades all the States composing the Southern section of the Union... It commenced with

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    Slavery’s Effect on Political Party’s During antebellum America there were a lot of different parties‚ acts‚ and compromises created due to slavery. This issue is what eventually led our nation to the Civil War. Although U.S. expansion during the 1850’s was not the main reason why the nation got torn apart‚ the increase of land was a catalyst to it. The fact that there was equilibrium in congress between the North and the South was basically the last hanging thread before war. After the conquest

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    U.S.  History     Europe   England:     Economics  –  enclosure   o   Economy  began  to  revive   o   Enclosure:  property  owners  fence  off  land  for  grazing     Squatters  kicked  off  Hiof  land  =>  landless  population   o   Colonies  =  solution  for  landless  peoples     Merchant  capitalism   o   Merchants  in  look  for  investment  opportunities     Development  of  joint-­‐stock  companies     Nationalism   o   Spain  =  Britain’s  greatest  rival   o   Defeat  of  Spanish

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    It has been said throughout each generation that history is destined to repeat itself. Now ask yourself‚ is the history of John C. Calhoun‚ one of the most influential US leaders‚ and his beliefs destined to repeat themselves? Life is not only stranger than fiction‚ but frequently also more tragic than any tragedy ever conceived by the most fervid imagination. Often in these tragedies of life there is not one drop of blood to make us shudder‚ nor a single event to compel the tears into the eye. A

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