Jefferson & Jackson Administrations
Many US ships trading in the Atlantic were attacked by these illegal sailors during the Jefferson administration.
What are pirates
The famous painting American Progress, by John Gast, represents this idea
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention radically transformed the South's economy.
What is the cotton gin?
This proposed barring slavery from newly acquired territories in the West
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This resulted in the doubling of the United States overnight
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
He coined the term Manifest Destiny in a newspaper editorial?
Who was John O'Sullivan?
This crop made up 80 percent of US exports by 1860
What is cotton?
The idea that people in a territory could choose whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the general strategy of the Union, which included gaining control of the Mississippi, blockading the South, and attacking Georgia.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The Tariff of Abominations centered around this idea that states do not have to follow federal law
What is nullification?
This is the idea that native born citizens should have more rights than immigrants.
What is nativism?
This slave revolt ended when slaves led by a religious zealot killed nearly 65 people.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This faction wanted to punish the South for causing the Civil War
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This law, signed in 1807, cut off US trade with all countries, which shattered the economy
What is the Embargo Act?
This area refers to the Pacific Northwest and part of British Columbia.
What is the Oregon Territory
This is based on the assumption that women are weak, and therefore their proper place was in the home, being supported by men.
What is the cult of domesticity?
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that slaves were not US citizens and could not sue for their rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The economic system replaced slavery as the source of labor in the South after the Civil War
What is sharecropping?
Jackson destroys the National Bank by moving money from the National Bank and placing it in state banks
What are pet banks?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The idea that the master was the "father" and the slaves were the "children" - used to justify slavery
What is paternalism?
Under this compromise, California was admitted as a free state AND created a strong Fugitive Slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
After he was elected in 1876, he took out the last troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?