AAS 033A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Missouri Compromise, Cotton Gin, Spoils System
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Significant in understanding how our nation got powerful. Transportation system: (infrastructure: ports and harbors - allow goods to be transported to us, railroads, canals - allow us to transport important goods and services, able to navigate rivers, better roads. Under justice john marshall three important cases illustrate supreme courts view on the market economy: dartmouth college v. woodward (1819) - ruled that states cannot impaired (weakening or cancelling a contract). Two observations regarding these rulings: us supreme court favors mart economy, us supreme court favors federal government over state government (still a contested issue today) Evidence of things that were not going so well for our country. Wanted to abolish slavery in one state. Cutting mass and creating a new state: maine: missouri entered into union as slave state as maine was a free state. 1824: marked the end of the good feeling era. Appeared in the 1828 election but it actually began in 1824.
