Connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and Buffalo with Albany, NY; most spectacular engineering project of the young US
Erie Canal
100
Henry Clay's plan to unite the nation by builiding roads, canals, and bridges; funded by the US government
American System
100
Warning to European nations not to colonize any region in the Western Hemisphere (notably Latin America and the Oregon Country)
Monroe Doctrine
100
Court decision that set the precedent of Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
100
Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
200
Said, inpart, that God was on the side of American expansion from the Atlantic to Pacific; was achieved after the Mexican American War.
Manifest Destiny
200
Reform movement calling for the regulation/removal of alcohol
temperance
200
Father of the public education movement
Horace Mann
200
Beginning of the Women's Suffrage movement; held in 1848
Seneca Falls Convention
200
Involved support of the common man, the use of the spoils system expanded suffrage for non-land owners, manifest destiny, strict construction of the Constitution, and laissez faire economics
Jacksonian Democracy
300
Spirit of nationalism and patriotism following the War of 1812 with only one political party in power
Era of Good Feeling
300
Slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831
Nat Turner's Rebellion
300
Name 3 people involved in the abolitionist movement
William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Sarah and Angelina Grimke
300
Passed in 1820, admitted Missouir as a slave state and Maine as a free state; purpose was to maintain the balance between the # of slave and free states in territories from Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Compromise
300
Occurred in response to Tariff of Abomination; SC said it raised prices of goods so they could nullify it (really a states' rights issue); caused a showdown between President Jackson and VP Calhoun; 1st serious threat of secession
Nullification Crisis
400
Would have banned slavery in territories won in Mexican War; north favored it and south opposed
Wilmot Proviso
400
1) Admitted California as a free state 2) Utah and New Mexico could decide slave/free with popular sovereignty 3) slave trade banned in DC 4) stricter fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850
400
1854; allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide slave/free using popular sovereignty; led to violent event Bleeding Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Case that ruled slaves were not citizens and that they were property of their owners so had no right to sue in federal court
Scott v. Sanford
400
Led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA in 1859 attempting to arm slaves
John Brown
500
Union general who won Battle of Shiloh and led the Army of the Potomac to victory in Civil War
Ulysses Grant
500
Led the Confederate army; surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
Robert E. Lee
500
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
500
First shots of the Civil War were fired here
Fort Sumter (in Charleston Harbor)
500
Largest battle of the Civil War; fought in Pennsylvania; South never recovered from their loss