Industrial Revolution
Being more concerned with interests of a group of people or region instead of the whole country
What is sectionalism?
James Quincy Adams winning the election of 1824 and Henry Clay being appointed as Secretary of State
What is the "Corrupt Bargain"?
The belief that God blessed the US to expand across North America from east to west
What is Manifest Destiny?
The nationality of the people who worked on the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad
Who are the Chinese?
This law, signed by President Monroe on March 6, 1820, maintained a political balance between slave and free states. It admitted one state as a slave state and one state as a free state, while prohibiting slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36º 30' parallel
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Economic policies created by Henry Clay; to unite the U.S. economic systems so the country would be able to support itself
What is American System?
He believed South Carolina had a right to nullify the tariffs passed in the 1820s and 30s
Who is John C. Calhoun?
What is the addition of territories by the US across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is Westward Expansion?
A philosophical idea that knowledge comes from intuition and imagination, not science or logic.
Transcendentalism
A secret, decentralized network of safe houses, routes, and abolitionists—both Black and white—that helped an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 enslaved people escape from Southern states to the North and Canada between the late 1700s and the Civil War
What is the Underground Railroad?
What is to manufacture?
Jackson replaced 10% of the government workers from John Adams’s presidency with loyal friends; led to the“kitchen cabinet”
What is the Spoils System?
The lands given up to the US at the end of the Mexican-American War
What is the Mexican Cession?
Religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835. During this revival, meetings were held in small towns and large cities throughout the country, and the unique frontier institution known as the camp meeting began.
The Second Great Awakening
A series of five acts passed by Congress to resolve territorial and slavery-related tensions between the North and South, temporarily averting secession. Admitting California as a free state, enacting a stricter Fugitive Slave Act, banning the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and applying popular sovereignty to the Utah and New Mexico territories
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A device that uses wires and electricity to send and receive messages
What is a telegraph?
Forced thousands of Native Americans to leave their homelands and move west of the Mississippi River to the “Indian Territory”
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
A colonial, religious, and social institution established by Spain between the 16th and 19th centuries to spread Roman Catholicism, convert Native American populations, and solidify territorial control in the Americas
What is a Mission?
This group sought to protect the economic, religious, and cultural dominance of native-born Protestants. They formed political movements like the Know-Nothings in the 1850s, pushed for restrictive immigration laws, and fueled intense anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Who are Nativists?
This percentage of African Americans living in the South were free in 1860
What is 6%?
A flat bottomed boat used to carry heavy loads
What is a barge?
This presidency is referred to as the Era of Good Feelings. Americans were happy the War of 1812 ended, and national pride swept the country.
Who is James Monroe?
What are Mormons?
These are desperate, unemployed individuals, often immigrants or African Americans, hired by management to replace striking union workers and keep factories running
Who are strikebreakers or scabs?
This organized some western territories, explicitly repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing "popular sovereignty" to decide the legality of slavery in these areas
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?