U.S. History: Key Events and Policies

Property qualifications were raised.

Property qualifications were lowered or eliminated.

Voting was extended to all adults, regardless of race or gender.

Only landowners were allowed to vote.

Eliminating all tariffs on imported goods.

Establishing a system of free trade with European nations.

Federally funded infrastructure projects like roads and canals.

Reducing the power of the national bank.

To encourage European colonization in the Western Hemisphere.

To establish new American colonies in Europe.

To prevent European powers from recolonizing independent nations in the Western Hemisphere.

To form military alliances with European nations.

All new states admitted to the Union were required to be free states.

Slavery was abolished in all existing states.

Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, to maintain balance.

The federal government purchased all enslaved people and set them free.

Limiting the power of the federal government.

Supporting Andrew Jackson's policies.

Promoting an active federal government with tariffs and a national bank.

Advocating for states' rights over federal laws.

They believed the tariffs benefited northern manufacturers at their expense.

They wanted to increase trade with foreign countries.

They supported a stronger federal government.

They were trying to protect their growing industrial economy.

To establish new trade routes with Native American tribes.

To provide financial aid to Native American communities.

To relocate Native American tribes from their lands in the Southeast to the West.

To grant Native American tribes more political representation.

It led to a period of economic stability and growth.

It resulted in the creation of a new, stronger central bank.

It contributed to inflation and an economic collapse known as the Panic of 1837.

It strengthened the power of the federal government over state banks.