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AP US: You will have a quiz Tuesday on nationalism vs. sectionalism. It will include multiple choice questions as well as the following terms/people:

whigs
Force Bill
John Tyler
Panic of 1837
Daniel Webster
Andrew Jackson
John C. Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
nullification theory
Tariff of Abominations
William Henry Harrison
Bank of the United States
gag rule
abolition
Nat Turner
antebellum
emancipation
David Walker
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
strike
master
apprentice
journeyman
cottage industry
Lowell Mill workers
National Trades’ Union
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Irish immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s

For some reason the last few slides would not load:

Jackson and the BUS
-Earlier renewal sought for BUS charter.
-Political issue w/ Clay trying to discredit Jackson in 1832 election. AJ won.
-Jackson vetoed the bank renewal in 1832
Unconstitutional
Harmful to nation
Only served the wealthy
-AJ w/drew federal money from BUS and placed it in state banks or “pet banks”
Wildcat banks- unreliable too much paper money in circulation

Specie Circular
-Bank notes were virtually worthless and people used them to purchase land from the government
-AJ issued an order to require all land purchased from the federal government to be paid for in specie
-People rushed to banks to redeem paper money for specie resulting in banks, which had ltd specie, to suspend redemption of bank notes
-Many banks stopped accepting paper currency
-Panic of 1837

Election of 1840 (The Whigs)
-“Tippecanoe and Tyler, too” vs “Van, Van, the used-up man”
-Dem. Van Buren runs against Whig William Henry Harrison
-Harrison won, John Tyler (chosen to bring in Southern votes) was his VP
-Harrison dies one month into office
-Tyler= “His Accidency”

Jackson’s Bank War: PPT found online

JACKSON’S BANK WAR –