Sectionalism & Tariffs
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, this device mechanized seed extraction and unexpectedly cemented the South's reliance on enslaved labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The forced 1,000-mile relocation of Southeastern Native American tribes that resulted in thousands of deaths
What is the Trail of Tears?
Issued in 1823, this foreign policy declaration stated that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to future European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Jacksonian Democracy expanded white male voting rights primarily by removing this requirement.
What is property ownership?
This tax on imports was passed in 1828 and outraged Southern agrarian exporters, leading to the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
Purchased from France in 1803, this land acquisition doubled the size of the nation and secured control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Supreme Court ruled that state laws had no legal force within this sovereign nation.
Who are the Cherokee?
The Era of Good Feelings was characterized by one-party political rule following the collapse of this political party.
What is the Federalist Party?
Also known as "rotation in office," this was Jackson’s practice of rewarding political loyalists with federal jobs.
What is the Spoils System?
In response to radical abolitionist publications, Southern theorists shifted from describing slavery as a "necessary evil" to this term.
What is a "positive good"?
Established in 1787, this land legislation created a formal path to statehood and permanently banned slavery in the Old Northwest.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This Southeastern nation fought an extended guerrilla war in the Florida Everglades to resist federal removal.
Who are the Seminole?
In the Presidential Election of 1820, this incumbent candidate received all but one Electoral College vote.
Who is James Monroe?
Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of this financial institution because he viewed it as an unconstitutional monopoly for wealthy elites.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
Championed by John C. Calhoun, this constitutional theory held that states created the federal government and had the power to void unconstitutional federal laws.
What is Compact Theory (or the Nullification Doctrine)?
Built between 1811 and 1837, this was the first major federally funded highway connecting eastern ports to western frontiers.
What is the Cumberland Road (or National Road)?
Daily Double
Located along the Tennessee River in North Alabama, these two supply and shipping hubs served as vital logistical staging depots for federal removal operations.
What are Bell Factory and Waterloo?
Caused by western land speculation and credit contractions, this 1819 event was the nation's first major economic panic.
What is the Panic of 1819?
Passed by Congress at Jackson's request, this bill authorized the military to enforce federal tariff laws in South Carolina.
What is the Force Bill?
Which Controversial Compromise promised to fix the issue of slavery as new states were added into the Union?
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Signed in 1783, this agreement established the Mississippi River as the original western border of the independent U.S.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Andrew Jackson's refusal to enforce John Marshall's Worcester v. Georgia ruling demonstrated a major flaw in this constitutional principle
What is the separation of powers? (or questioning what powers the executive branch had)
The early political rivalry of the First Party System pitted Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans against this founder’s Federalist vision.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Opponents of Andrew Jackson who accused him of executive overreach (King Andrew the 1st) formed this anti-Jackson political coalition in the 1830s.
What is the Whig Party?