What is sharecropping?
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, After the Civil War, the southern states adopted a sharecropping system
as a compromise between former slaves who wanted land of their own,
and former slave owners who needed labor. The landowners provided
land, tools, and seed to a farming family, who in turn provided labor. At the
end of the year, the sharecropper tenants might owe most-or-all of what
they made to their landlord. The sharecropping system kept many of the
laborers economically bound to their employers.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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A sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 admitted Missouri to the Union
as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery in the
remainder of the Louisiana Purchase territory above the latitude of 36'30.
Why was John Tyler known as the "accidental president?"
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As a result of the Election of 1840, Whig candidate William Henry Harrison
beat the incumbent, Martin Van Buren. The new president was quite
elderly by the standards of the time in that he was 68 years old. His
inauguration speech, delivered in bad weather, was very lengthy and
difficult to hear. Feeling rather ill and faint, the president greeted thousands
of jubilant supporters, confiding to his assistant that he did not even have
the time to do “the necessary functions of nature.” A month later, the
exhausted and overwhelmed old general was dead. He was honored with
a spectacular funeral and an extended mourning period. John Tyler
became the first “accidental president” meaning a vice president who
rose to the office of president as a result of the death of the incumbent.
, How did the Andrew Jackson presidential administration influence American politics?
(Andrew Jackson, when he was young was told to clean by a british soldier to clean
his boot. Jackson would not and was slashed across the face with a riding whip. He
did not cry, and an old man who was a local said he was as tough as hickory. Hence
his nickname, old hickory)
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After riding an overwhelming victory to the White House, Jackson’s rise
from poverty, military prominence, business success, politics, and to the
presidency was now complete. His admirers regarded him as a firm
leader who strengthened the powers of the presidency, championed the
rights of ordinary people, and attacked privilege to increase economic
opportunity. His detractors accused him of weakening the economy,
waging an anti-capitalist assault on banks and other business
corporations, needlessly killing Native Americans, and causing the Panic
of 1837.
What is the "spoils system?"
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Put into place by Andrew Jackson, defended the principle that public
offices should be rotated among party supporters to help the nation
achieve its republican ideals. He believed that performance in public
office required no special intelligence or training. Rotation in office would
ensure that the federal government did not develop a corrupt class of civil
servants set apart from the people.
What was Thomas Jefferson's first foreign policy crisis and how was it resolved?
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, After the Civil War, the southern states adopted a sharecropping system
as a compromise between former slaves who wanted land of their own,
and former slave owners who needed labor. The landowners provided
land, tools, and seed to a farming family, who in turn provided labor. At the
end of the year, the sharecropper tenants might owe most-or-all of what
they made to their landlord. The sharecropping system kept many of the
laborers economically bound to their employers.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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A sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 admitted Missouri to the Union
as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery in the
remainder of the Louisiana Purchase territory above the latitude of 36'30.
Why was John Tyler known as the "accidental president?"
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As a result of the Election of 1840, Whig candidate William Henry Harrison
beat the incumbent, Martin Van Buren. The new president was quite
elderly by the standards of the time in that he was 68 years old. His
inauguration speech, delivered in bad weather, was very lengthy and
difficult to hear. Feeling rather ill and faint, the president greeted thousands
of jubilant supporters, confiding to his assistant that he did not even have
the time to do “the necessary functions of nature.” A month later, the
exhausted and overwhelmed old general was dead. He was honored with
a spectacular funeral and an extended mourning period. John Tyler
became the first “accidental president” meaning a vice president who
rose to the office of president as a result of the death of the incumbent.
, How did the Andrew Jackson presidential administration influence American politics?
(Andrew Jackson, when he was young was told to clean by a british soldier to clean
his boot. Jackson would not and was slashed across the face with a riding whip. He
did not cry, and an old man who was a local said he was as tough as hickory. Hence
his nickname, old hickory)
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After riding an overwhelming victory to the White House, Jackson’s rise
from poverty, military prominence, business success, politics, and to the
presidency was now complete. His admirers regarded him as a firm
leader who strengthened the powers of the presidency, championed the
rights of ordinary people, and attacked privilege to increase economic
opportunity. His detractors accused him of weakening the economy,
waging an anti-capitalist assault on banks and other business
corporations, needlessly killing Native Americans, and causing the Panic
of 1837.
What is the "spoils system?"
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Put into place by Andrew Jackson, defended the principle that public
offices should be rotated among party supporters to help the nation
achieve its republican ideals. He believed that performance in public
office required no special intelligence or training. Rotation in office would
ensure that the federal government did not develop a corrupt class of civil
servants set apart from the people.
What was Thomas Jefferson's first foreign policy crisis and how was it resolved?
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