1820s
Notable Individuals
1830s/Reforms
Sectionalism
100
This statement from the 5th President warned European states that the U.S. would not tolerate further colonization or conquest of the American continents.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
100
This individual escaped from slavery and went on to become one of America's famous orators and abolitionists. This abolitionist started a newspaper known as the North Star.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
100
The development of this principle led to American women to go from working on the farms to becoming the "moral leader" in the home.
What was the cult of domesticity?
100
The abolition movement aimed to put an end to this institution.
What was slavery?
200
This engineering achievement connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
This American president, in addition to founding a new political party, is also known for the Indian Removal Act.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
200
This reform movement aimed to reduce the manufacturing and consumption of alcohol.
What was temperance?
200
The creation of this invention led to an increased demand for the use of enslaved people on plantations, especially in the Deep South.
What is the cotton gin?
300
Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams get the votes in the House, in the contested election of 1824, to become the next president. Andrew Jackson's supporters, outraged, dubbed the agreement between these two men as this.
What was the "corrupt bargain"
300
This group of immigrants in the early 19th century tended to be Catholic, spoke English, and settled in New England cities.
Who were the Irish?
300
This political party arose to oppose Jackson and the Democratic Party. They supported a stronger central government and internal improvements.
Who were Whigs?
300
This individual led the most well-known slave rebellion in American History. Following this rebellion, southern states passed tighter laws known as slave codes.
Who was Nat Turner?
400
The Jacksonian Era is known for prioritizing the political power of working-class and/or self-made Americans such as farmers. Thus this era is also known as the age of this group of people.
What is the Common Man?
400
This reformer helped start the common school movement.
Who was Horace Mann?
400
This theory asserts that a state can refuse to follow a federal law if that state feels it violates the Constitutional compact of federalism. This is what South Carolina attempted to do in 1832.
What is nullification?
400
This legislation proposed by Henry Clay in 1820, allowed the U.S. to maintain the balance between slave state and free states. This legislation also drew a line at the 36°30′ latitude to restrict the expansion of slavery.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
500
This treaty resulted in the U.S. acquiring Florida.
What was the Adams-Onis Treaty?
500
This person was a radical abolitionist who published a newspaper known as the Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
500
The Declaration of Sentiments which stated that "all men and women are created equal" originated at this meeting in 1848.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
500
Factory owners in the northern states supported this policy because it gave them an advantage when competing with foreign-made goods.
What are tariffs?