US HISTORY

UNIT 7 REVIEW SHEET

Reform/religious topics + PEOPLE associated with reform movement

Temperance—Lyman Beecher, Charles T Washington
~abstain from alcohol

Education—Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, John Hughes

~encourage orderliness and thrift in common people

Abolition—Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd Garrison

~gradual emancipation w/ compensation to slave owner ad shipment of free black slaves to Africa

Women’s Rights—Grimke sisters (Lucretia Matt, Lucy Stone, Abby Kelly), Elizabeth Stanton
~opportunity for public activities

Prison/Mental Health—Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Samuel G Howe

Utopian Communities—Robert Owen, Ralph Emerson, George Ripley

Jackson v Clay

Jackson v Calhoun
Calhoun had tried to get Jackson punished for unauthorized raid of FL + discredit him by hurting his cabinet’s wife with slander Peggy
O’Neale Conflict
SC upset over tariffs –nullify
Calhoun writes SC Exposition and Protest—States have right to nullify + argue against Tariff of 1828
Compromise Tariff of 1833—gradually lower tariffs
Force Bill—president can use arms to collect duties in SC

Jackson v Bank
Clay propose recharter of US Bank—If Jackson vetoes, then angry supporters vote for Clay (backfires)
Deposit Act — Jackson move all money from US Bank to state bank/ “pet” banks to kill US Bank
Jackson hates paper money
State banks loan money recklessly

Jackson v Indians/Supreme Court

Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaws, Cherokees, Seminoles, Creeks, Chickasaws)
Indian Removal Act—Jackson remove Indians and move to Indian Territory/OK
Cherokees petition through Supreme Court:
Cherokee v GA: Indians are domestic dependent nation in GA –prolonged occupancy = keep claim in GA
Worchester v GA: John Marshall rule for the Cherokees—Jackson disapproves
Cherokees forcible removed along Trail of Tears

Causes and Consequences of Panic of 1837

Jackson kill US Banks = no regulations on state banks (lend money too recklessly)
Speculation bubble—prices drop = bubble pops = Panic of 1837
Depression

Specie Circular
Govn’t only accept specie for payment of public land
Attempt to reverse effects of Deposit Act

Independent Treasury
Independent organization that keeps the govn’t revenue (instead of giving it to a bank)

Election of 1832 Election of 1836 Election of 1840

Whig : Clay Harrison Harrison
Democrat : Jackson Van Buren Buren

Whigs v Democrats
Whig = for tariff , for bank

Democrat =