throughout various sections of the country. When Missouri applied to become part of the union‚ they insisted on being a slave state. This upset the north due to their interest in a balance of power. The Missouri Compromise was enacted with the help of Henry Clay in order to come to a conclusion to the political arguments between the North and South. It stated that in order for Missouri to be accepted as a slave state‚ Maine would come into the union as a free state. Also‚ slavery wasn’t to be permitted
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and became deeply involved in the North vs. South debate on slavery. He was afraid the nation would be divided. Douglas felt that the population of a state should decide if it has slavery or not. This is called popular sovereignty. Stephen helped Henry Clay pass the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise admitted California as a Free State and gave Utah and New Mexico popular sovereignty. Douglas also had other thoughts on his mind. “In 1854‚ Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois saw an opportunity to run
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American Political Parties There have been many different political parties since the beginning of the American political system. A political party is made up of a group of people that share common goals and ideals‚ and these people work together to help elect people to offices that share these goals to represent them. Political parties work to try to control the government and their ultimate goal is to win as many elections and to gain as many offices as possible. During the time when the
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not taken into account this right “reconsidered democracy’s economic basis during 1820s and 1830s” (357). 2. What is meant by the term “The American System”? What were its three pillars? It was a government-promoted economic development labeled by Henry Clay and approved by President J. Madison during his State of the Union message in December 1815. The three basic pillars of these program were a “new national bank‚ a tariff on imported manufacturing goods and federal financing of improved roads and
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Columbia Convention. The delegates of the convention called for the tariff to be void within South Carolina. The convention threatened to take South Carolina out of the Union if the government attempted to collect the customs duties by force. • Henry Clay introduced the Tariff of 1833. It called for the gradual reduction of the Tariff of 1832 by about 10% over 8 years. By 1842‚ the rates would be back at the level of 1816. • The compromise Tariff of 1833 ended the dispute over the Tariff of 1832
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John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville‚ South Carolina on March 18th‚ 1782 and he supported his family whenever his father was ill when he was still a child. In 1807‚ John became a lawyer and was soon elected to congress in 1810 where he was openly a “war hawk” or someone who wanted to go to war with Great Britain for independence‚ and in 1812 he got his wish when the war of 1812 began. During the war‚ he raised troops so that he could support congress which made him a nationalist and he fought for
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CHAPTER 13 The Rise of a Mass Democracy‚ 1824–1840 00001PART I: Reviewing the Chapter 00001A. 0Checklist of Learning Objectives After mastering this chapter‚ you should be able to: 10. Describe and explain the growth of Mass Democracy in the 1820s. 20. Indicate how the alleged corrupt bargain of 1824 and Adams’ unpopular presidency set the stage for Jackson’s election in 1828. 30. Analyze the celebration of Jackson’s victory in 1828 as a triumph of the New Democracy over the more restrictive
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Andrew Jackson and the Politics of the Market Revolution I. The Presidency of John Quincy Adams Adams appointed Henry Clay as his Secretary of State. This was a corrupt bargain says his opponents. Jackson described Clay as Judas of the west. After he became president he got to work trying to build all these things like an observatory and national college. II. Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson Martin close supporter of Jackson put together an organization that was designed to drive Adams and
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Andrew Jackson had made many enemies during his first term as president. The National Republicans joined with Jackson’s opponents to form the Whig party. The one thing the unified the Whig party was their dislike for Jackson and they nominated Henry Clay to run against him in the election of 1832. States rights was a major issue that contributed to the reemergence of political parties. Jackson proposed that once the federal debt had been paid off‚ the government would be able to distribute the
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Jeffersonian states’ righters. Tyler had in fact been put on the ticket partly to attract the vote of this fringe group‚ many of whom were influential southern gentry. 2. What were the main planks of the Whig platform? Although the dominant Clay-Webster group had published no platform‚ every alert politician knew what the unpublished platform contained. And on virtually every major issue‚ the obstinate Virginian was at odds with the majority of his adoptive Whig party‚ which was pro-bank‚
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