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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