Economy
This cash crop in the south enabled slavery to grow and spread in the early 19th century.
What is cotton (aka King Cotton)?
A religious movement that encouraged people to improve their lives which led to the start of various Reform Movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The is how Thomas Jefferson referred to the first peaceful transfer of power in American History
What is the Revolution of 1800?
This forced march of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole from their ancestral homelands in the southeast to Oklahoma (aka Indian territory) resulted in mass death and devastation
What is the Trail of Tears?
The period in American history, roughly from 1815 to 1825, following the War of 1812, marked by a sense of national unity and political harmony
What is the era of good feelings?
This increased communication and helped to improve business production.
What is the telegraph?
This movement has earlier roots, but took off in the 1830s and had a large and symbolic event in Seneca Falls in 1848
What is the women's rights movement?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Andrew Jackson vetoed this, leading to a financial panic in 1832
What is the Second National Bank?
3 year conflict between the United States and Great Britain sometimes called the second American Revolution
What was the War of 1812?
The economic system designed by Henry Clay to promote economic growth
Arguably the most important abolitionist, born into slavery, who used his powerful voice and pen to advocate against slavery, and who also supported the movement for women's rights
Who was Frederick Douglass?
A supreme court case that determined a Law passed by Congress to be unconstitutional and gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The argument that a state has the right to void within its borders a law passed by Congress, which led to a crisis between the federal government and the state of South Carolina
What is the nullification crisis?
A law passed in 1820 to maintain the balance of slave and free states in the United States
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A transportation route that connected New York to the Midwest and helped improve industrialization and migration.
What is the Erie Canal?
A reform movement that encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home.
What is the temperance movement?
This outlawed trade with all foreign countries and was another example of Jefferson and the Democrat-Republicans switching their Strict Interpretation of the Constitution to Broad.
What is the Embargo Act?
This term was used after the election of 1824 was won by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay was made his Secretary of State.
What is the corrupt bargain?
This American religious leader and politician was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Who was Brigham Young?
This man invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin, which were important technological innovations.
Who was Eli Whitney?
This is a belief that individuals could be remade only be discovering their original relation with Nature and entering into a mystical union with the currents of Universal Being.
What is transcendentalism?
A federally funded expedition to explore the western United States from 1804–1806 under Thomas Jefferson
What was the Lewis and Clark expedition?
This is when after winning an election politicians reward their supporters by giving them jobs and positions within the government.
What is the spoils system?
The foreign policy position of the United States that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?