HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Second Party System, Foreign National, Thurgood Marshall
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Old hickory : all the presidents up until this period were washington elites, not jackson, wants to remove all indians from areas where whites have established themselves. 1820s-1840s: jackson vetoes the bank"s ability to renew its charter, makes the secretary of the treasury take out all the money of the bank -- only the. 3rd secretary agrees and distributes the money to state banks: the public thinks this is wonderful because the depression hasn"t hit yet, the state banks do not have hard money to backup the money -- caused the. Transportation revolution: america is big, geographically, fast growing population, need changes in technology to service the land and people, 1800 -- cost as much to send goods 30 miles inland as it did from new york to. Orleans: huge innovation, problem: limited to natural water ways and tends to explode, north to south, canals, 1815 -- governor of new york builds a canal between buffalo and albany, the erie.