Colonial America
This 1773 event saw colonists in Boston destroy British tea to protest taxation without representation, escalating tensions with Britain.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Passed in 1820, this compromise admitted a slave state and free state, prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30' line in the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The movement to not only prevent the expansion of, but end enslavement in America.
What is abolitionism?
This period of economic transformation saw advancements in transportation, industrialization, and commercialization, drastically altering American society and markets.
What is the Market Revolution?
The belief that Americans were divinely ordained to settle across the continent of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This economic system, practiced by European empires, was based on accumulating gold and silver and maintaining a favorable balance of trade.
What is mercantilism?
This act required citizens to assist in the capture of those accused of being escaped slaves, and denied them the right to a jury trial.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Protestant revival movement emphasized personal salvation, emotional worship, and social reform, leading to the growth of abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This labor system allowed women to work in textile factories under strict supervision.
What is the Lowell System?
The large purchase of land that gave the United States sovereignty across the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This conflict highlighted tensions over land and expansion between New England colonists and Native Americans led by Metacom.
What is King Philip's War?
In this Supreme Court Case, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and that Congress lacked the power to prohibit slavery.
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford?
Ideology where women were entirely in charge of household chores and responsibilities, including child care-taking.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This financial crisis led to widespread bank failures and and a severe economic depression.
What is the Panic of 1819?
A policy holding that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the United States.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1794 rebellion tested the new federal government’s ability to enforce its laws after farmers revolted against a tax on distilled spirits.
What is Whiskey's Rebellion?
This political theorist and Vice President anonymously authored the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, arguing that states could nullify federal laws they deemed unconstitutional.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by ideas of the unity of all creation, innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic.
What is transcendentalism?
This economic plan sought to unify the nation's economy through protective tariffs, a national bank, and federal funding for internal improvements.
What is the American System?
This conflict began when US troops were ordered to the disputed territory between two rivers.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This set of 85 essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, supported the ratification of the Constitution and explained the principles of federalism.
What are the federal papers?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act directly contributed to the collapse of this political party, which split over the issue of slavery, paving the way for the rise of the Republican Party.
What is the Whig Party?
Meeting of around 300 men and women, the attendees discussed women's social, civil, and religious rights, asserting in the Declaration of Sentiments that "all men and women are created equal."
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This engineering marvel solidified the status of New York as America's premiere seaport, commercial center, and gateway to the interior.
What is the Erie Canal?
This war saw the burning of Washington, DC, the defeat of the British Navy, and inspired the writing of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' during the Battle of Fort McHenry.
What is the War of 1812?