Market Revolution and Industry
Expansion and Manifest Destiny
Sectional Conflict & Slavery
Age of Jackson
Reform Movements
Road to Civil War
100
Most early factories developed in this U.S. region due to labor, ports, and capital.
The North
100
This belief stated the U.S. had a God-given right to expand westward.
Manifest Destiny
100
This line (36°30′) from the Missouri Compromise separated free and slave territories.
Missouri Compromise
100
Practice where Jackson gave government jobs to loyal supporters.
Spoils System
100
Religious revival that sparked many reform movements.
Second Great Awakening
100
Allowed territories to vote on slavery; led to violence in Kansas.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
This invention allowed instant long-distance communication, linking markets across the nation.
Telegraph
200
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
200
This 1850 law angered Northerners by requiring the return of escaped enslaved people.
Fugitive Slave Act
200
This crisis erupted when South Carolina attempted to cancel federal tariffs and threatened to secede.
Nullification Crisis
200
She fought for better treatment of the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
200
The final straw that led to the south's secession.
The election of Abraham Lincoln
300
These workers became a major labor source in Northern factories during the 1840s–1850s.
Irish and German Immigrants
300
This 1823 doctrine warned Europe not to colonize in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
300
This Supreme Court case ruled African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
300
The 1830 law that forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi.
Indian Removal Act
300
Novel that increased Northern support for abolition.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
Supreme Court ruling that said enslaved people were property, not citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
400
This economic change connected the nation through new technology, transportation, and factories.
Market Revolution
400
This treaty gave the U.S. the Mexican Cession after the Mexican-American War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
400
This 1850 law angered Northerners by requiring the return of escaped enslaved people.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Political party formed in opposition to Jackson, believing he abused presidential power.
Whig Party
400
1848 meeting that demanded rights for women.
Seneca Falls Convention
400
Abolitionist who raided Harpers Ferry to spark a slave uprising.
John Brown
500
This Massachusetts factory town became a model for early American industrialization and hired young women.
Lowell
500
This 1854 land purchase completed the southern border of the U.S. and allowed a transcontinental railroad.
Gadsden Purchase
500
This proposal attempted to ban slavery in territories won from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
500
Jackson’s fight to destroy this institution led critics to call him “King Andrew.”
Second National Bank
500
Leader of public education reform in the 1800s.
Horace Mann
500
Name for the violence between pro- and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.
Bleeding Kansas