Jacksonian Era
Andrew Jackson's inauguration symbolized the ascendancy of this group
The masses (common people)
This New England reformer is best known for exposing the inhumane treatment of the mentally ill and prisoners.
Dorothea Dix
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling declared that Congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories.
The Dred Scott decision
Thomas Jefferson feared large standing armies could be used for this dangerous purpose.
To establish a dictatorship
The Union victory at this 1862 Maryland battle probably prevented Britain and France from intervening on behalf of the Confederacy.
The Battle of Antietam
This tariff sparked South Carolina's nullification crisis of 1832–1833
Tariff of 1828
The first national women's rights convention was held in 1848 in this New York city
Seneca Falls
The admission of California as a free state threatened to destroy this longstanding balance in the U.S. Senate.
The balance between free and slave states
In Marbury v. Madison (1803), the Supreme Court established its power to do this
Judicial review
When issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in these states.
Confederate states still in rebellion
This document, written by Vice President Calhoun, argued that states could nullify federal laws
The South Carolina Exposition
This transcendentalist poet was called the "Poet Laureate of Democracy."
Walt Whitman
These northern state laws were designed to protect escaped enslaved people after the Compromise of 1850.
Personal Liberty Laws
These young congressmen from the West and South pushed for war with Britain, earning this nickname.
War Hawks
General Lee surrendered to General Grant at this Virginia location.
Appomattox Court House
Jackson tried to rein in runaway paper money in 1836 by issuing this order requiring hard currency for land purchases
The Specie Circular
The Oneida Community declined primarily because of widespread criticism of this controversial practice
"Free love" (complex marriage)
Events in Kansas in the mid-1850s proved this principle of letting settlers decide the slavery question to be impractical.
Popular sovereignty
Jefferson was concerned the Louisiana Purchase could be considered this, since the Constitution didn't explicitly authorize it
Unconstitutional
This amendment to the Constitution legally abolished slavery throughout the United States.
The Thirteenth Amendment
Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in favor of the Cherokee in this landmark case, yet Jackson refused to enforce it
Worcester v. Georgia
This religious sect emphasized simple communal living and added members only through conversion.
The Shakers
This proposed amendment would have prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
The Wilmot Proviso
This British practice of seizing sailors from American merchant vessels was a major grievance before the War of 1812
Impressment
This general pioneered the strategy of total warfare during his famous march through Georgia.
General William T. Sherman