1830s
This man was the founder and first leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, aka the Mormon Church.
Who is Joseph Smith?
Henry Clay was one of these Congressmen who believed war with Great Britain would be easy and beneficial.
Who were the War Hawks?
These two men duelled at Weehawken, NJ, on July 11, 1804.
Who are Burr and Hamilton?
This candidate won a plurality but not a majority of both popular and electoral votes in the 1824 election.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
If any person embodied the idea of Manifest Destiny, it was this man.
Who is James K. Polk?
By the 1832 election, Andrew Jackson belonged to this party, and Henry Clay to this other party.
What are the Democratic Party and the Whig Party?
This militant band of Creeks lost to General Andrew Jackson at Horseshoe Bend.
Who were the Red Sticks?
This group chooses the next President if an election yields a plurality but not a majority in the Electoral College.
What is the House of Representatives?
By the end of the first party system, there were no more serious candidates from this party to oppose the Democratic-Republicans in Presidential elections.
What is the Federalist Party?
Antebellum abolitionists favored this kind of abolition, rather than the kind that had worked in the northern states.
What is immediate abolition?
The Indian Removal Act removed the "Five Civilized Tribes" from their native land and sent them to a reservation in this future state.
What is Oklahoma?
The Industrial Revolution replaced these skilled workers with unskilled, highly replaceable workers.
What are artisans?
Hamilton was this kind of thinker, believing the federal government could do anything that was not forbidden by the Constitution.
What is a loose constructionist?
The Second Great Awakening strengthened this movement, whose adherents believed that alcohol was the cause of most social ills.
What was the temperance movement?
Slaves from the border states used this network to escape to the north, usually ending up in Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A slave rebellion led by this man killed approximately 60 people in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
This man negotiated the treaty with Spain that gave the US ownership of Florida.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
The presidencies of the 1800s included two out of these four members of the Virginia Dynasty.
Who are Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe?
The Compromise of 1820 added these two states to the Union.
What are Missouri and Maine?
This treaty gave the US California, Texas with its border at the Rio Grande, and most of the land in between.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Americans in Texas finally won independence from Mexico at this battle in 1836.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
In this 1819 case, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress has the power to charter a Second Bank of the United States.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Jefferson envisioned a North America populated by this kind of farmer.
What is a yeoman farmer?
This company, dedicated to American infrastructure, was an early example of the corporate business model and its many advantages.
What is the B&O Railroad?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the first women's rights convention in this city.
What is Seneca Falls?