Good Feelings
This phrase, coined by a newspaper, described the apparent political harmony after the War of 1812 under President James Monroe.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
In the election of 1824, Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes but lost in the House when Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams, leading Jackson’s supporters to call the outcome this.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
This battle in 1836, where approximately 187 Texan defenders (including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie) were overwhelmed by Santa Anna’s forces, became a rallying cry for the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
This 1850 compromise package admitted California as a free state, ended the slave trade (but not slavery) in Washington, D.C., organized Utah and New Mexico without a federal ban on slavery, and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This massive religious revival (roughly 1815–1860) emphasized individual choice, emotional worship, and the idea that society itself could be perfected through Christian action.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Congress had this type of power under the Necessary and Proper Clause, allowing creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
What are implied powers?
This informal group of advisors (editors, political allies, and confidants) that Jackson often consulted instead of his official Cabinet.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
He was an American stateman and frontiersman who became famous for "grinning down a bear" and dying at the Battle of the Alamo.
This doctrine, associated with Lewis Cass and later Stephen Douglas, held that settlers in a territory should decide the slavery question themselves when writing a state constitution.
What is popular sovereignty?
This prominent revivalist, originally trained as a lawyer, introduced techniques such as extended camp meetings, informal preaching, and greater participation by women.
Who is Charles G. Finney?
The Adams-Onis Treaty, negotiated by John Quincy Adams, transferred this state from Spain to the United States and clarified western boundaries.
What is Florida?
This social and political controversy involving the wife of Secretary of War John Eaton damaged John C. Calhoun’s relationship with Jackson and elevated Martin Van Buren.
What is the Peggy Eaton or Petticoat Affair?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War, adding California, New Mexico, and other western lands to the United States in exchange for $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo?
This 1854 act organized Kansas and Nebraska territories under popular sovereignty and repealed the Missouri Compromise line, outraging many Northerners and helping birth the Republican Party.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1848 convention in New York, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, produced the Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence and launched the organized women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Issued in 1823, this policy declared that European powers should not interfere in the Western Hemisphere, becoming a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
In Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia could not interfere with Cherokee lands protected by federal treaties, but Jackson refused to enforce the decision, leading to this forced relocation.
What is Indian Removal, or Trail of Tears?
Proposed by Congressman David Wilmot, this measure sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico; it never passed but intensified the slavery debate.
What is the Wilmott Proviso?
Violence in this territory (including the sack of Lawrence and rival free-soil and pro-slavery governments) earned it the nickname “Bleeding Kansas”; Northern rifles sent to free-soilers were nicknamed “Beecher’s Bibles.”
What is Kansas?
This radical abolitionist editor of The Liberator called for immediate emancipation, denounced the Constitution as a “covenant with death,” and sometimes burned copies of it.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and banned slavery north of the 36°30′ line in the Louisiana Purchase territory. Thomas Jefferson called the controversy a “fire bell in the night.”
What is the Missouri Compromise?
South Carolina’s attempt to nullify the Tariff of Abominations led to this 1832–33 crisis; Jackson responded with a Force Bill while Henry Clay brokered a compromise tariff.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Some said God made men, but he made men equal.
Who is Samuel Colt?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, sold hundreds of thousands of copies and dramatized the horrors of slavery for many Northern readers in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
These two sisters from a South Carolina slaveholding family became prominent abolitionist speakers and advocates for women’s rights after leaving the South.
Who are the Grimke sisters?