Antebellum Era 1

Elections and Campaigns

100

He presided over a short-lived "Era of Good Feeling" that was shortly followed by a financial panic and sectional crisis

James Monroe

200

Three-time unsuccssful candidate for president, he played key roles in the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1833 and the Compromise of 1850.

Henry Clay

300

This successful candidate for president won in the House of Representatives, accused by the loser of making a "corrupt bargain" with the man whom he subsequently appointed as Secretary of State.

John Quincy Adams

400

Running with the slogans "Tippeecanoe and Tyler too" and "Log cabins and hard cider," this successful candidate for president pioneered the modern presidential campaign, making a fully national appeal and employing campaign organization and publicity that have since become standard.

William Henry Harrison

500

From New York, and one of the nation's first professional politicians — meaning politics was his livelihood — this president was a beneficiary of the so-called "petticoat war" whose failed attempt at a second term owed in part to his predecessor's "Specie Circular."

Martin Van Buren

Westward Expansion

100

The first movement of whites into the American southwest was prompted by this country's concern to maintain its territorial claims?

Mexico

200

Andrew Jackson's unauthorized but successful campaign against the Seminole Indians resulted in the American acquisition of what future state, secured by the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819?

Florida

300

Concern over expanding Russian influence in the northwest and a potential threat to American westward expansion resulted in what foreign policy milestone?

The Monroe Doctrine

400

In an article he wrote in 1845 for The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, John L. O'Sullivan coined what phrase that captured the spirit and intention of the American westward movement?

Manifest Destiny

500

During whose presidency did more territory come under the flag of the United States than at any time before or since.

James K. Polk

Slavery and Sectionalism

100

What 1831 bloody massacre of more than fifty white men, women and children, resulted in the Virginia Assembly's no longer considering abolishing slavery, instead passing laws tightening restrictions on both slaves, free blacks and slave owners?

Nat Turner's rebellion

200

In a speech in the United States Senate, this spokesman for the South described slavery as a "positive good."

John C. Calhoun

300

Founding The Liberator newspaper in 1831, this outspoken activist declared, "I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—AND I WILL BE HEARD," and denounced the Constitution in 1854, quoting Isaiah, as "a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell."

William Lloyd Garrison

400

Thundered this president, "I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which It was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed."

Andrew Jackson

500

This proposed and rejected amendment almost scuttled what legislation: "And provided, That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been fully [duly] convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five Years.".

the Missouri Compromise

Religion and Reform

100

What new religious denomination of the Second Great Awakening stressed individual freedom of belief, a united world under a single God, and the mortal nature of Jesus Christ, whom individuals should strive to emulate?

Unitarianism

200

What was the chief vehicle behind the outpouring of religious faith of the Second Great Awakening?

the religious revival meeting

300

How did Lincoln's Gettysburg Address echo and in fact immortalize a key message of the revivalist sermons of the Great Awakening?

America's mission to lead the world forward to equality and democracy

400

Revivalists believed that every person had an individual duty to combat what?

Sin

500

Still one of the largest African-American denominations, the name of the first autonomous African-American church, founded in Philadelphia in 1816, was

the African-American Methodist Church

Economics and Technology

100

During the first half of the nineteenth century, rural household and urban artisan industry were replaced by what other form of production?

the factory system

200

The project that sparked an economic revolution in the United States in the early 19th century was

the Erie Canal

300

Vociferous opposition to this form of transport included allegations that persons would suffer "concussion of the brain."

Train travel

400

The information revolution in the United States that occurred in the first half of the 19th century owed largely to what communications medium?

the newspaper

500

Americans overcame their resistance to technological change as a result of whose efforts?

inventors, tinkerers and amateur scientists