Week 1: Washington and the Early Republic
These two parties made up the First Party System (1792-1824).
What are the Federalist and the Democratic-Republican Parties?
He used his political sway to convince Congress to choose Jefferson over Burr in the election of 1800.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The first factories in America produced this material.
What is fabric?
The Oneida Community disbanded as a utopian society, but continued as this kind of organization.
What is a silverware manufacturer?
This South Carolina politician argued for nullification of federal law.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
In this treaty, the British agreed to abandon forts in the northwest.
What is the Jay Treaty?
When Jefferson attempted to purchase New Orleans from the French, Napoleon counteroffered with this territory.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
In 1820, Congress was deeply divided about whether this state would be slave or free.
What is Missouri?
These people believed that Christ’s second coming would occur before his thousand-year reign.
What are the pre-millennials?
This man became Secretary of State in 1825 in what Jackson dubbed a “corrupt bargain.”
Who is Henry Clay?
Hamilton believed these powers in the Constitution granted the federal govt ability to create a national bank.
What are implied powers?
The practice of enlisting merchant sailors in the British Navy was known as this.
What is impressment?
These man-made waterways drastically lowered shipping costs and times; the most significant stretched from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, across New York state.
What are canals?
This pseudo-science allowed practitioners to analyze personality and skills based off the shape of someone’s head.
What is phrenology?
This man signed the Treaty of New Echota on behalf of the Cherokee Indians.
Who is Elias Boudinot?
In his Farewell Address, Washington warned against “entangling” these.
What are alliances?
SCOTUS established the principle of judicial review in this case.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This man invented the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
The Millerites were distraught when Jesus did not return to earth on Oct 22, 1844, a day that came to be known as this.
What is the Great Disappointment?
JQA’s team attacked Andrew Jackson with “Coffin Handbills,” which accused him of doing this.
What is murdering people (in duels or for desertions)?
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves challenged which laws?
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Congress outlawed this trade on Jan 1, 1808, the first day possible.
What is the international slave trade?
This man invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Before they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, the latter-day saints were based in this Illinois city.
What is Nauvoo?
Reckless speculation in land, facilitated by the lack of a national bank, was a cause of the Panic of this year.
What is 1837? (also acceptable: 1819)