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APUS: Chapters 12b and 13a (pp. 250 – 265)

Explain the provisions of the Treaty of 1818 with Britain. Was the idea of power sharing a good idea? Explain.

Explain the acquisition of Florida – how did Jackson get the territory – and why wasn’t he court-martialed – which is the normal response to a soldier who disobeys orders?

What events created the conditions that prompted the Monroe Doctrine? What did it say?

Why were many of Adams= initial proposals greeted with such hostility in the south and the west? (page 258-9)

Why did his land policy create animosity?

Until Jackson, competence and continuity had dictated that Presidents not remove civil servants in favor of supporters. Jackson created the “spoils system. Explain why.

Explain the alleged goals of the ATariff of Abominations.@

How did Jackson and his supporters hope to give the President a Ablack eye@ with this bill?

Why did the north eventually vote in favor of this tariff?

Explain how the tariff Adiscriminated@ against the south.

Explain the dilemma that John C. Calhoun found himself in the middle of after the publication of the ASouth Carolina Exposition.@

How was this Anullification@ doctrine supposed to help preserve the US?