Cronyism
Index of Subjects
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
(compiled by Patrick Newman)
Absolutism, 23, 27, 47
Adams–Onís Treaty, 237, 245-46
Address of 1790, 87, 121, 126, 129
Address of the Minority, 67
Address to the People of the United
States, 287
Albany Regency, 199, 213, 232, 253
Alien and Sedition Acts, 125-30, 133
Alliance of Throne and Altar, 23, 25, 27, 45-46, 83, 215
American Anti-Slavery Society, 308
American Colonization Society, 241
American Quarterly Review, 268
American Revolutionary War, 16, 34-49, 51-52, 54, 56, 62, 66, 72, 88, 98, 112, 114, 124, 127, 132, 188, 243
American Society for the
Encouragement of Domestic
Manufactures, 198, 221
American System
elections of 1824 and 1828, 251, 254, 257-58, 260
empire building, 19, 205, 237, 240-41, 243, 246-47, 249, 321, 324, 327-28
monetary, 211, 214, 267, 271, 268, 284, 302, 308-09, 313-14, 327-28, 329-330
tariffs and internal improvements, 219, 221, 225, 229, 230, 233-35, 266, 282, 284, 293-96, 298, 300-01, 315, 323, 326-27, 330
Annapolis Convention, 65
Anti-Corn Law League, 292
Antifederalists
constitutional convention, 58-66
federalist era, 73-79, 83, 85-88, 94, 105-06, 108, 110, 115
Republican Party, 17, 100, 120-23, 126, 135, 139, 142-43, 167, 217-18, 285-86
ratification debates, 16, 66-73, 314
Argus, 214, 259
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual
Union
Article Two, 41-43, 76
considered inadequate, 49, 51-52, 54-55, 57-58, 59, 65-66 73
drive for, 16, 35, 40-43, 48, 92
General welfare clause(s) of Articles, 41, 43, 45, 60
Association for Promoting Currency and Banking Reform, 281-82
Aurora, 116, 131, 140, 149
Bacon’s Rebellion, 26
Bank of Albany, 149
Bank of Alexandria, 151
Bank of England, 30, 45, 89, 275-76, 277
Bank of Maryland, 93-94
Bank of New York, 52, 84, 93, 116
Bank of North America, 45, 52, 61, 89, 93, 146
Bank of Northern Liberties, 150
Bank of Pennsylvania, 94, 149-50
Bank of Pittsburgh, 150
Bank of the Potowmac, 151
Bank of the State of Tennessee, 214
Bank of the United States, 17, 88-97, 104, 116, 122, 139, 146-48, 151-52, 177, 191, 311,
See also Second Bank of the United States
Bank of Virginia, 151
Barbary States, 57, 145-46
Bill of Rights, 17, 77, 79, 85, 87, 90, 121
Boston Associates, 19, 190, 198, 216, 222, 224, 225, 243-47, 259, 278, 291-93, 309, 316, 319
Boston Manufacturing Company, 190, 197, 222
Boston Marine Insurance Company, 246
Boston Tea Party, 33
British East India Company, 33
Canada, seizure of, 18, 31, 166, 172, 174, 175-76, 181-88, 189, 190
Cato’s Letters, 28, 32, 37, 40, 124
Central banking, 30, 43-44, 52-63, 83, 88-97, 108, 124, 146-48, 152, 191, 193, 194-96, 199, 205, 215-16, 218-19, 260, 267-68, 270, 275, 278, 311
See also Bank of England, Bank of the United States, Second Bank of the United States, Soft money
Charles River Bridge, 297
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 171, 234
China Trade, 49, 119, 177, 245, 312, 315-17, 318, 322
Cincinnati Enquirer, 293
Coercive Acts of 1774, 33
Coinage Act of 1792, 90
Cole & Clark, 298
Commercial Bulletin, 316
Committee of Secret Correspondence, 36
Compact theory, 17, 126, 128, 193, 286
Compensation Act of 1816, 199
Convention of the Friends of National
Industry, 221-22
Corcoran & Riggs, 278-79, 306, 326, 328
Corn Laws, 292-93
Corporate charter
banks, 29-30, 44-45, 47, 55, 61-62, 66, 88-91, 94-95, 97, 146-52, 168, 195-96, 209, 212-14, 216, 219, 263, 267-69, 273-75, 278, 280-83
colonies, 23-27, 39, 47
incorporation, 179, 280, 293-94, 279-98
manufacturing, 98-99, 179
transportation, 102-05, 169, 231, 297-98, 321
Corrupt Bargain of 1787, 61-62
Corrupt Bargain of 1789, 83, 86
Corrupt Bargain of 1825, 18-19, 253, 224-25, 249, 251, 253-57
Courier and Enquirer, 268
Cuba, seizure of, 166, 244, 248-50, 316-17, 297-98, 325
Currency Act of 1764, 32
Currency school, 267, 268, 271, 276-80
Daily Advertiser, 282
Debt
Colonial, 61
federal assumption, 16, 35, 43-47, 51-54, 60-61, 79, 83-89, 97, 107-08, 113, 161, 258
banking, 89, 147-48, 194, 279-84, 307-08
decrease, 19, 123, 142-46, 168, 185, 200, 207, 219, 224, 230, 236, 258, 288-89, 294-95, 298-99, 325-26
increase, 35, 67, 118, 129, 131, 135, 155, 159, 165, 181, 188, 190-91, 193-94, 234-36, 298, 303
state, 44-45, 51-54, 61, 79, 83-88, 97, 107, 109, 112-13, 122, 297-99, 311-12
Declaration of Independence, 37-40, 127, 242, 270, 277
Declaration of Rights, 40
Del Norte Company, 321
Democratic Party
barnburners, 281, 314, 329
Democratic Societies, 46, 54, 56, 99, 111-12, 125, 198, 221-26, 233, 241, 308, 310
dismantling American system, 16, 20, 263-64, 267, 268, 69, 272-73, 285-86, 289-90. 291-301, 324, 327-29
formation (Era of Corruption), 18, 205, 224-28, 229-30, 235, 237, 242-43, 245-46, 248-51, 253-60
Hunkers, 281, 329
imperialism, 303-04, 306, 308, 312-15, 318, 320-23, 325-30
Democratic Societies, 111
Deposit Act of 1836, 273, 275, 290
Depression of the 1620s, 24
Depression of the 1780s, 51-54
Distribution Act of 1841, 291
Drexel & Co., 315
Election
of 1788, 68, 70
of 1796, 117
of 1800, 121, 130-33, 135, 179, 194, 201, 218, 255
of 1812, 179, 186-87
of 1816, 198-99
of 1824, 225, 246, 254-254, 258 See also Corrupt Bargain of 1825
of 1828, 19, 251, 253, 257-60
of 1832, 269, 288, 295, 305
of 1836, 296, 311
of 1840, 277-78, 290, 311
of 1844, 279, 293, 313
of 1848, 16, 329
Electoral College, 60, 72-73, 133, 254, 257, 260
Embargo Act of 1807, 172, 177-79
Empire of Liberty, 17, 38, 69, 70, 86, 114, 123, 124, 127, 128, 131, 135, 139, 142, 152, 153, 155, 159, 166, 179, 188, 240, 3167
Enabling Act of 1802, 169-70
Enlightenment, 16, 27-29, 37-39, 53, 95, 122, 168
Enquirer, 217, 258, 268, 281
Erie Canal, 103, 181, 184, 231-32, 298
Essex Junto, 17, 68, 73, 108, 114, 116, 118-20, 125, 133, 185, 190
Evening Post, 226, 229, 233, 274, 287
Federalist Party
Adams federalists, 133
Constitutional Convention, 58-66, 156, 195, 264
Era of Corruption, 205, 215, 217-19, 222, 240, 243-44, 246, 253, 255
First Congress, 68-70
Hamiltonian era, 17, 83, 85-86, 88-93, 95, 97-101, 102-06, 107-20, 121-25, 215
High Federalists, 113, 120, 121, 124, 126, 132-33, 158-59, 195-96
Jeffersonian Era, 19, 139-43, 145-46, 148-51, 153-54, 155, 157-58, 161-63, 165-66, 172-73, 176-77, 178-79, 180, 182, 191-92, 196, 198, 265, 318
Ratification debates, 66-73, 91
Feudalism, 16, 23-27, 28, 40, 47
Florida, seizure of, 18, 119, 153-54, 163-68, 172, 179, 181-83, 186, 187, 188-90, 243-45, 247, 249
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, 227
Free Banking, 30, 95, 148-50, 191, 192, 212, 213, 263, 267, 274, 275, 279-83
Free Soil Party, 329
French Revolution, 47, 111
Fries Rebellion, 113, 118, 120, 131
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, 124, 237
Funding Act of 1790, 83, 87-88, 93, 108
Gazette of the United States, 119
General Survey Act of 1824, 221, 229, 234-35
Georgia Company, 105
Georgia Mississippi Company, 105
Globe, 263, 270, 273, 296, 310,
Glorious Revolution of 1688, 26-27
Grand Design, 31-32, 49
Gresham’s Law, 29, 52
Hard money, 29, 36, 44, 52-53, 62, 89-90, 94-96, 97, 105, 123-24, 146, 148, 150-51, 191-92, 194-96, 206, 208-15, 267, 269, 271, 273, 275-77, 279, 280, 281-83
Harrisburg Convention, 226-27, 235
Hartford Convention, 192
Hat Act of 1732, 27
Illinois Company, 42
Indentured servitude, 25
Independent Treasury, 19, 263, 266-69, 271-73, 275-80, 315, 326
Indiana Company, 42
Indian Removal Act of 1830, 305
Indians, 24-25, 26, 31, 76, 100, 101, 99-100, 105, 108, 155, 164, 181, 185, 190, 244-45, 249, 321
See also Indian Removal Act of 1830, Seminole War
Internal Improvements, 18-19, 56, 63, 83, 102-04, 124, 130, 143, 153, 161, 168-71, 193, 199-201, 205, 221, 225, 229-30, 233, 234-35, 282, 284, 293-96, 298, 300, 301, 304, 315, 323, 326-327, 330
Iron Act of 1750, 27
Jay’s Treaty, 113-16, 158, 175
Jay-Gardoqui Treaty of 1786, 57
Judiciary Act of 1789, 79, 140-41, 217
Judiciary Act of 1801, 134, 140-41
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 125-30, 285-86
Kitchen Cabinet, 266-67, 269, 272, 289
Land grants and speculation, 18, 24-25, 30-31, 56, 64, 83, 105, 106, 108, 124, 163, 136, 299, 321, 327,
See also Yazoo land scandal
Liberty versus Power, 13-16, 28, 35, 69, 73, 89, 109, 121-22, 151, 154, 237-38, 241-42, 258-59, 277, 287, 290, 293, 330
Louisiana Purchase, 18, 146, 153-61, 162, 164, 167, 168, 181, 185, 200, 240, 303, 307, 325-26, 329
Louisville and Portland Canal, 295
Main Line Canal, 233
Massachusetts Bank, 52, 93
Massachusetts Bay Company, 25
Massachusetts Fire and Marine
Insurance Company, 246
Massachusetts Land Bank, 30
Massachusetts Resolve, 32
Maysville Road, 295
Memorial to Congress, 287
Memphis Convention, 300-02, 327
Mercantilism, 23
Merchants Bank, 149
Mexican War, 19, 321, 322, 323-29, 330
Michigan Southern Railroad, 298
Michigan State Bank, 274, 282
Militarism
army and navy buildup, 17, 35-36, 56, 60, 63, 77, 109, 112-113, 116-18, 120, 121-23, 143, 144-46, 172, 182, 186, 230, 327,
bureaucratic, 44-46, 52, 60, 74, 217, 298-99
foreign aggression, 54-55, 61, 95, 109, 112-14, 117, 122, 125, 138-39, 147, 195, 224, 229-37, 250, 279, 285-86, 296-306, 310
See also Canada, seizure of; Cuba,
seizure of; Florida, seizure of;
Mexican War; Quasi-War; Texas,
seizure of; War of 1812
Mingo Creek Society, 109
Missouri Compromise, 222, 237, 240-43, 308, 328-29
Mobile Act of 1803, 164
Mohawk Bridge v. Utica and Schenectady
Railroad, 297
Molasses Act of 1773, 27
Monroe Doctrine, 237, 243, 247-48, 315-16, 318, 320, 322
Monroe-Pinkney Treaty, 172, 175-76.
Napoleonic Wars, 169, 193
National Intelligencer, 140, 215, 219, 226, 259
National Road, 170-71, 199, 234, 236, 256, 295
Naval Stores Act of 1705, 27
Navigation Acts, 25-28, 32, 39, 64, 85
Navigation Act of 1650, 25
Navigation Act of 1660, 25
Navigation Act of 1663, 25-26
Navigation Act of 1673, 26
Navigation Act of 1696, 27
New England Mississippi Land
Company, 105, 162
New York & Liverpool United States
Mail Steamship Company, 328
New York State Bank, 149
New York Stock Exchange, 207
Newburgh Conspiracy, 45-46, 109, 112-13
Niles Weekly Register, 198, 215, 227
Non-Importation Act of 1806, 175-77
Nonintercourse Act of 1809, 178
Northern and Inland Lock Company, 103
Nullification, 32-33, 87, 107, 109, 121, 128, 178, 192, 285-90, 293
Nullification Crisis, 285, 289, 286, 289
Olive Branch Petition, 35-37
Ordinance of 1784, 42
Ordinance of 1785, 56
Ordinance of 1787, 43, 238
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 328
Panama Congress, 237, 243, 249-50
Panic of 1792, 95, 101
Panic of 1797, 97, 101, 116
Panic of 1819, 18, 205-210, 211, 215, 221, 236, 237, 267
Panic of 1837, 275-77, 281-82, 290, 311
Peel’s Act of 1844, 279
Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 125
Pennsylvania Society for the
Encouragement of Domestic
Manufactures, 221
Pennsylvania Society for the
Promotion of Internal
Improvements, 233
Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion
of Manufactures and Mechanic Arts, 226
Philadelphia Bank, 149
Philadelphia Free Trade Convention, 287, 288, 292
Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry, 221
Planters’ Bank, 274, 283
Plymouth Company, 24-25, 155
Porter, Barton & Company, 172, 184
Price-Specie Flow Mechanism, 52-53, 93-94, 96
Proclamation Line of 1763, 32
Proclamation of Neutrality, 114-15
Providence Bank, 93, 147
Quasi-War, 17, 107, 117, 125, 132, 145, 169, 174
Republican Party
Clintonians, 55, 59, 149, 158, 166, 178, 182, 187, 189, 213
corruption of, 17, 148-54, 154-55, 159, 168-70, 172-79, 188-89, 263, 301, 303, 323, 330
Hamiltonian Era, 17-18, 100, 104-05, 109, 113-20, 121-25, 128-29
invisibles, 182, 186-89, 201
moderate Republicans, 17, 135, 145, 152, 153, 161-63, 164, 165, 171, 172-79, 181-82, 201
National Republicans, 15, 18, 181, 194-201, 211, 215, 219, 221-23, 229-30, 234, 236, 237, 242-43, 253, 257-59, 265, 302
Old Republicans, 17-18, 139-42, 143, 144, 145-46, 151, 161-62, 171-72, 174, 176-78, 182, 187, 199-200, 217, 230, 237, 241-43, 264, 286, 309
radicals, 199, 208, 211-12, 215-16, 221, 223, 224-25, 230, 235, 243, 253, 254, 258, 285, 286
War Hawks, 182-89, 201
Residence Act of 1789, 87, 92
Restraining Act of 1804, 149
Richmond Whig, 309
Roger Williams Bank, 147
Rotation in Office, 29, 39, 43, 47, 60, 77, 124, 230, 263, 265-66, 273, 301
Royal African Company, 25
Safety Fund Act of 1829, 274
Salutary Neglect, 27-28, 29
Secession, 14, 16, 34, 37-41, 47, 49, 57, 70-71, 86, 109, 115, 119, 121, 126-28, 153, 159, 161, 162, 168, 178, 192, 226, 240, 285-86, 287, 308, 309, 310
Second Bank of the United States, 18-19, 196-97, 198, 200, 205-08, 211, 213-19, 223, 245, 258, 263, 266, 267-73, 275, 278, 284
Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania, 311
Secret Committee, 36
Seminole War
first, 245
second, 296, 307
Shays’ Rebellion, 52, 55-56
Slave trade, 25, 38, 48, 64, 160, 185, 237-38, 241
Slavery, 18-19, 25, 38, 42, 43, 48, 64-65, 70, 124-25, 161, 185-86, 231, 237-43, 249-50, 259, 290, 303, 304, 307, 308-10, 312, 313, 315, 316-17, 320, 328-29, 330
Smith & Buchanan, 145, 206
Society for Establishing Useful
Manufactures, 99-101
Society of the Cincinnati, 46, 54, 56, 112
Soft money, 29, 30, 32, 35-36, 43-44, 52-55, 62, 95, 122, 146-48, 151, 168-96, 205-11, 213, 273, 281, 283
Sons of Liberty, 32
South Carolina Canal and Railroad
Company, 231
South Carolina Railroad Company, 300
South Carolina Yazoo Company, 105
Specie Circular of 1836, 273, 275
Spirit of 1798, 17, 128, 130-31, 133, 139, 217, 259, 265,
Stamp Act of 1765, 32, 117
Sugar Act of 1764, 32
Supreme Court, 61, 78-79, 91, 92, 105, 106, 110, 134, 140-42, 153, 161-63, 217, 219, 297, 306
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 297
Fairfax’s Devisee v. Hunter’s Lessee, 163, 217
Fletcher v. Peck, 162, 217
Gibbons v. Ogden, 232, 297
Marbury v. Madison, 141, 217
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, 217, 229, 241
McCulloch v. Maryland, 211, 217-18, 241, 267, 270
Osborn v. the Bank of the United States, 218
Tariff Act of 1789, 74, 85-86
Tariff Act of 1792, 100-01
Tariff of 1816, 198, 293
Tariff of 1824, 224-25, 234
Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations), 221, 228-29, 288
Tariff of 1832 (Compromise), 288-89
Tariff of 1833 (Compromise), 290
Tariff of 1842, 291-92
Tariff of 1846 (Walker), 285, 291-92, 293
Tariffs
debt assumption, 43-45, 46, 52, 54, 79, 83, 85, 89, 98, 107-08, 113, 122, 143, 313
protective, 18, 83, 98, 172, 179, 181, 193, 196, 198, 205, 221-30, 243, 260, 264, 284-86, 288, 290, 292, 330
Taxes
backing money, 29, 192-93, 271, 277
debt funding, 29, 192-93, 271, 277
discriminatory, 13, 25-27, 139, 170, 174-75, 198-99, 216-17, 265
resistance to, 18, 32-33, 36, 41-42, 55, 66-68, 70, 94, 102-03, 107-13, 117, 121-24, 130-33, 155-56, 186, 285-86, 294, 298-99, 300, 305
Tea Act of 1773, 32
Tennessee Company, 105
Tennessee Yazoo Company, 105
Tenure of the Office Act of 1820, 230, 265
Texas, seizure of, 19, 245, 250, 303, 307-15, 319, 321-22, 325, 327
The Banner of the Constitution, 287
The Federalist Papers, 67, 90, 91-92, 107, 130, 218, 286
The Liberator, 308
Tonnage Act of 1789, 74-75
Tory, 27, 30-31, 33, 98
Townshend Acts of 1767, 32
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, 305
Treaty of Ghent, 193
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 324
Treaty of Paris, 47-48
Treaty of San Ildefonso, 153-54
Treaty of Wanghia, 319
Tribune, 292
Tripoli War
See Barbary Pirates
Tuckahoe Canal v. Tuckahoe and James
River Railroad, 297
Two Million Dollar Act of 1806, 165-66
Uniform Militia Act of 1792, 115
Union Bank, 274, 283-84
Union Manufactory, 178
Upper Mississippi Company, 105
US Constitution, 231
broad interpretation of, 83, 91-93, 97, 100, 105-06, 120, 135, 156, 217-18, 245, 304-05
coinage clause, 62, 195, 214, 217, 267, 270, 271
commerce clause, 63, 232, 297
Constitutional Convention, 17, 58-66, 85, 89, 91, 92, 98, 106, 128, 195, 206, 217, 218, 286
contract clause, 64, 106, 162, 297
First Amendment, 125
fugitive slave clause, 64, 237-38, 240-41
general welfare clause, 70, 91, 100, 103, 123, 125, 200
necessary and proper clause, 60, 61, 67, 90, 167, 217
post roads clause, 63, 103
ratification debates, 66-73, 90, 121-23, 126, 128, 312
strict interpretation of, 17, 87, 91-92, 121, 126-27, 156-59, 165, 214-15, 223, 229, 267, 285-86, 295
supremacy clause, 60-61, 108, 122
Tenth Amendment, 76, 90-91, 123, 128, 241
three-fifths clause, 61, 124-25, 238, 307-09
Twelfth Amendment, 141-42, 255
U.S. Mail Steamship Company, 328
Virginia Company, 24
Virginia Resolve, 32
Virginia Yazoo Company, 105
Wabash Company, 42
War of 1812, 18, 181, 188-93, 189, 217
Warren Bridge, 297
Washington Turnpike, 295
Western Inland Lock Company, 103
Whig Party
American, 15, 19, 28, 124, 264, 266, 269, 273, 275, 277-78, 280-88, 289-93, 295, 296, 297, 298-302, 304-05, 307, 309, 311, 313, 314, 316, 317, 319-20, 322, 323, 328, 329-30
British, 27-28, 124, 264
Whiskey Rebellion, 107-13, 121
Whiskey Tax of 1791, 108-09, 143
White Pine Act(s) of 1711 and 1712, 27
Willing & Morris, 36
Wilmot Proviso, 329
Wool Act of 1699, 27
XYZ Affair, 117, 164
Yazoo land scandal, 105-06, 161, 163-67
