Era of Jefferson
This 1803 case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1819–1820 compromise maintained balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
The reformer who led efforts to improve conditions in mental asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Forced displacement of Native people west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Jefferson’s 1807 foreign-policy law that halted all American trade with Europe.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
Henry Clay’s plan to unify the economy through tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements.
What is the American System?
The 1825 canal linking the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and New York City.
What is the Erie Canal?
This reform movement sought to limit or prohibit the consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The belief that Americans were destined to expand westward across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This land deal doubled the size of the U.S. and gave control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1814–15 meeting of New England Federalists opposed the War of 1812.
What was the Hartford Convention?
The overall term describing 19th-century economic transformations in transportation, manufacturing, and labor.
What is the Market Revolution?
The abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831
What is The Liberator?
This 19th-century philosophy led by Emerson and Thoreau emphasized nature and self-reliance.
What is Transcendentalism?
The group sent to explore newly acquired western lands under Jefferson.
Who were Lewis and Clark?
The policy allowing states to reject federal laws they found unconstitutional, tested in the 1832 tariff crisis.
What is nullification?
These two countries are where the majority of immigrant labor came from during the Market Revolution.
What are Germany and Great Britain?
A system of electoral politics where candidates are nominated by a majority of people, rather than a select group of elites.
What are party nomination conventions?
The man who led one of the most significant slave revolts in US history.
Who is Nat Turner?
The political party that favored a strict interpretation of the Constitution and an agrarian society.
Who were the Democratic-Republicans?
The issue at the heart of debates between North, South, and West over tariffs and internal improvements.
What is sectionalism?
U.S. foreign policy established in 1823 that opposed European colonialism in the Americas. It declared that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to new European colonization and stated that any European attempt to interfere with independent nations in the Americas would be viewed as a hostile act against the United States.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Movement of groups of people living in experimental communal towns outside of the industrial centers were often called this.
Backwoods Utopias
The system where presidents choose people who are loyal to their party to be a part of the federal government. (outside of elected roles)
What is the spoils system?