The Era of Jackson
Southerners called this 1828 tariff the "Tariff of Abominations."
New technologies helped make this crop so dominant that the South called it "King."
What is cotton
Horace Mann pioneered this movement in Massachusetts, pushing for compulsory attendance and better teacher preparation
What are free common schools (public education)
Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri adopted this, letting all white men vote regardless of property ownership
What is universal white male suffrage
Charles Grandison Finney's emotional revivals in upstate New York were part of this religious movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening
Jackson's supporters used this phrase to accuse John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay of political backdealing after the 1824 election
This 1831 Virginia uprising killed 55 whites and ended antislavery talk in the South
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion
Maine was the first state to ban the production and sale of liquor as a result of this movement
What is temperance
Henry Clay's three-part plan combined protective tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements.
What is the American System
Joseph Smith founded this church in 1830, and Brigham Young later led it to the Great Salt Lake
Who are the Mormons
This 1830 law authorized the forced relocation of Native nations from east of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act
William Lloyd Garrison published this abolitionist newspaper and demanded immediate emancipation
What is the Liberator
Dorothea Dix crusaded to improve the treatment of this group, who were often housed with criminals.
Who are the mentally ill
As part of the Missouri Compromise, this state was admitted as a free state.
What is Maine
This transcendentalist urged Americans to create a distinct American culture and stressed self-reliance
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this crisis, South Carolina declared federal tariffs void, and Jackson backed the Force Bill.
What is the Nullification Crisis
In 1847, Frederick Douglass started this abolitionist newspaper
What is the North Star
Thomas Gallaudet and Samuel Gridley Howe opened schools for these two groups.
What are the deaf and the blind
William Henry Harrison's 1840 campaign to highlight his humble roots.
What is the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign
After William Miller's predicted date of October 21, 1844 passed, his followers carried on under this new name
Who are the Seventh Day Adventists
Jackson rejected the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States, calling it a private monopoly and a "hydra of corruption"
What is the Bank Veto
Denmark Vesey's plot aimed to capture Charleston's harbors and sail to this Caribbean nation, whose revolution alarmed slave owners
What is Haiti
These elementary textbooks by William Holmes McGuffey taught hard work, punctuality, and sobriety
What are the McGuffey Readers
The Second Bank of the U.S. tightened credit to curb inflation, triggering this depression
What is the Panic of 1819
Artists of this school expressed the Romantic fascination with nature and beauty in landscape paintings
What is the Hudson River School