Major Events
This 1803 transaction with France during the Jefferson Administration resulted in the United States doubling its territory, for the price of $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The election of this president marked the first time power passed peacefully from one political party to another in the United States (1800).
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This Northern waterway connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, slashing shipping costs and driving urban growth. It's construction was completed in 1825, and is still utilized today
What is the Erie Canal?
This reform movement, motivate largely by the Second Great Awakening, focused on reducing and/or eliminating the consumption of alcohol within American society.
What is the Temperance movement?
This economic plan devised by Henry Clay supported a strong national bank, a protective tariff to boost northern manufacturing, and federally funded internal improvements (roads/canals).
What is the American System?
This war was famously supported in Congress by "War Hawks" of the Democratic-Republican Party, who demanded the federal protection of American maritime rights, the end of British impressment of U.S. sailors, and new availability of westward expansion.
What is the War of 1812?
This fourth U.S. president co-founded the Democratic-Republican Party along with Thomas Jefferson, and oversaw the chartering of the 2nd National Bank.
Who was James Madison?
Textile Mills in this Northern city featured several famous strikes during the Market Revolution, and served as methods for young women to earn their own cash wages while living in strictly regulated, company-owned boarding houses.
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
The early Women's Rights Movement, headed by figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, declared its sentiments at this New York event in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This sweeping act passed by President Jefferson in 1807 was proposed in hopes that it would starve Britain and France of vital American agricultural products and raw materials. He believed this economic pressure would force both European powers to respect U.S. maritime rights, and end impressment. However, The act proved disastrous for the American economy and boosted the Federalist Party.
What is the Embargo Act?
This formal declaration of U.S. foreign policy from 1823 asserted that the United States held dominion over the New World, European colonization was no longer freely allowed in the Americas, and that the United States would not interfere in European affairs.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This president from Kinderhook, NY inherited the economic Panic of 1837, and played a key part in organizing the modern Democratic Party.
Who was Martin Van Buren?
This technology invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 revolutionized cotton production, and transformed the South into the "Cotton Kingdom."
What is the cotton gin?
This newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison was a popular source of radical antislavery ideology, and demanded immediate emancipation of all enslaved people and equal rights for African Americans.
What is The Liberator?
This 1832 crisis was driven by high protective tariffs that favored Northern industry but severely hurt Southern agrarian economies. South Carolina, led by John C. Calhoun, declared the tariff unconstitutional and threatened to secede if forced to pay. President Andrew Jackson used force to uphold federal law.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This compromise delayed the culmination of the issue of slavery by maintaining the power of free states and slave states in the Union, in part by admitting Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This president, elected through the Corrupt Bargain of 1824, was a prominent Democratic-Republican and later Whig, and earned the title "The Hellhound of Abolition" from Southern legislators.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
Within this 19th-century ideology that defined a woman's role as strictly confined to the home, women were expected to epitomize four core virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, and motherhood.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This pioneering woman observed the horrific treatment of the mentally ill and successfully lobbied states to create the first wave of mental asylums, separating the mentally ill from hardened criminals.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
This landmark 1819 Supreme Court decision under justice John Marshall established that the federal government possesses "implied powers" not explicitly written in the Constitution, and established that federal law is supreme over state law.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This federal act during the Jackson Administration would drive the later Trail of Tears, and effectively aimed to clear the Southeast of Native tribes.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This president served a term of only 31 days due to dying of what is believed to be pneumonia, making him the first U.S. president to die in office.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
These vehicles/technologies were primary forms of transportation westward since their spread in the 1830s, and state and local governments provided the means for the bulk of their initial wave of construction.
What are trains/railroads?
This controversial New York utopian community practiced both complex marriage and common sharing of property.
What is the Oneida Community?
This system under President Jackson rewarded political supporters with government jobs, operating on the premise that ordinary citizens were capable of serving in government, but often resulted in rampant corruption and ineptitude within government.
What is the Spoils System?