Elections, Parties & Courts
This election marked the first peaceful transfer of power between rival political parties in the United States.
What was the election of 1800?
This New England textile industry employed many young women in factory towns such as Lowell, Massachusetts.
What were the Lowell mills?
This movement sought to reduce or ban the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What was the temperance movement?
This 1819 treaty transferred Florida from Spain to the United States.
What was the Adams–Onís Treaty?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Jefferson’s administration passed this 1807 law, which banned most U.S. exports in an attempt to pressure Britain and France.
What was the Embargo Act?
Henry Clay’s plan to strengthen the national economy through a bank, protective tariffs, and transportation projects became known by this name.
What was the American System?
This revival movement encouraged individual conversion and helped inspire reform causes such as temperance and abolition.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
This 1830 law authorized the federal government to negotiate the removal of Native nations living east of the Mississippi.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
By the 1840s, this crop dominated the Southern economy and increased the demand for enslaved labor.
What is cotton?
In this 1819 case, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the national bank and affirmed implied powers and federal supremacy.
What was McCulloch v. Maryland?
Completed in 1825, this helped make New York City a major commercial center.
What was the Erie Canal?
At this 1848 gathering, reformers issued the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
In this 1832 case, the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia could not impose its laws within Cherokee territory.
What was Worcester v. Georgia?
This 1831 revolt led Southern states to enact stricter laws controlling enslaved and free Black people.
What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
After no candidate won a majority of electoral votes in 1824, this institution chose John Quincy Adams as president, prompting Jackson’s supporters to allege a “corrupt bargain.”
What was the House of Representatives?
This economic downturn began in 1819 after land speculation, falling agricultural prices, and tighter credit contributed to bank failures and unemployment.
What was the Panic of 1819?
This reformer campaigned to improve conditions and treatment for people with mental illnesses.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
This Shawnee leader sought to unite Native nations against U.S. expansion and was killed during the War of 1812.
Who was Tecumseh?
Beginning in 1836, this House rule automatically tabled antislavery petitions without debate.
What was the gag rule?
This conflict followed Andrew Jackson’s 1832 veto of the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States and his removal of federal deposits.
What was the Bank War?
This broad transformation linked regions through transportation and communication, expanded commercial farming and manufacturing, and encouraged people to produce for distant markets.
What was the Market Revolution?
Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, this religious movement followed the teachings of the Book of Mormon and moved west after facing persecution.
What was the Latter-day Saint movement?
Signed in 1835 by a small Cherokee faction without the approval of most Cherokee people, this treaty ceded Cherokee lands in the Southeast to the United States.
What was the Treaty of New Echota?
In an 1837 Senate speech, this South Carolina politician argued that slavery was “a positive good,” rather than a necessary evil.
Who was John C. Calhoun?