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• Mudslinging• Trail of Tears• Revenue tariff• Protective tariff• Nullification• Canal• Factory System

Election of 1816

• James Monroe elected president• Served 2 terms

Adams-Onis Treaty

• Florida was a place for smugglers• US bought Florida from Spain for $5 million• Drew southern boundary of the US

Monroe Doctrine

• American foreign policy• Told the Europeans not to meddle and we

wouldn’t either

Missouri Compromise

• Missouri wants to join US as a slave state• Luckily, Maine wanted to join as free state• Henry Clay wrote it• No slavery above the Missouri border

Henry Clay

Election of 1824

• John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson• Jackson won most votes, but not enough• House chose Adams with help from Henry Clay• Adams then named Clay Secretary of State• Called it the “corrupt bargain”

Adams vs. Jackson

Henry Clay

Election of 1828

• First campaign with mass campaigning and mudslinging

• Mudslinging – making malicious statement about opponents

• Jackson won and served two terms

Spoils System

• Jackson used it• Handing out government jobs to loyal

followers

Indian Removal Act

• Goal was to remove the Indians off the land that the whites wanted

• Trail of Tears – Removal of Cherokee Indians to Indian territory

Compromise of 1833

• Revenue Tariff – tariff designed to raise money• Protective tariff – protected American

business from foreign competition• Government passes a higher tariff

• Vice-president Calhoun believed in nullification and resigned as vice-president

• Nullification – state could declare a law unconstitutional

• South Carolina nullified the law and asked for help from other states

• No one came to help

Compromise: lower tariff gradually so industry had time to protect themselves