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100
This party was lead by Andrew Jackson and opposed a national bank as well as tariffs while encouraging western expansion under Manifest Destiny.
What is the Democratic Party?
100
This Senator from Kentucky, lead the legislative fight in 1836 to recharter the Second Bank of the United States.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
This was the forced relocation of Native Americans following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
What is The Trail of Tears?
100
Thomas Cole is one of the most famous painters of this 19th century art movement.
What is The Hudson River School?
100
This textile manufacturing system used a labor system made up of "mill girls".
What is the Lowell System?
200
Created as an opposition party to Andrew Jackson, this party favored protectionism and was dissolved by 1854.
What is the Whig Party?
200
This conflict involved Jackson administration and South Carolina over a series of tariffs.
What is The Nullification Crisis?
200
This term is credited to columnist and editor John O'Sullivan.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
A religious figure of the Second Great Awakening, he is the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saints movement.
Who is Joseph Smith?
200
Built in 1825, this transportation route connecting New York City and the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
This party operated on a national level throughout the 1850's and was centered around its nativist opposition to Irish Catholic immigration.
What is The Know Nothing Party?
300
This South Carolina politician resigned from the Vice Presidency and entered the US Senate to fight for free trade, slavery, limited government, and nullification.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
This effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and drove the United States closer to Civil War.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This Massachusetts representative is credited as the father of the Common School movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
300
This was the prevailing values system for women among upper and middle classes during the 19th century. It included piety, purity, and submissiveness.
What is Cult of Domesticity?
400
Considered one of the earliest "third" parties in the United States, this single issue party existed in its opposition to the influence of a fraternal organization.
What is the Anti-Masonic Party?
400
Passed by Congress, this among other things, authorized the President Jackson to use troops in order to compel South Carolina to comply with the law.
What is the Force Bill?
400
This proposed to ban slavery in all land acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
This 19th century writer, editor, and literary critic is the only author to have an NFL team named after one of his works.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
400
This man is credited with inventing the first commercially successful steel plow and is today associated with a brand of tractors.
Who is John Deere?
500
This party originated in New York with its main purpose to oppose slavery in new territories.
What is The Free Soil Party?
500
This is a pejorative term used for state banks that were selected by the Treasury Department to receive surplus government funds.
What are pet banks?
500
These requested that James Polk provide the exact location where blood was spilt on American soil that he claimed justified the declaration of war on Mexico in 1846.
What are spot resolutions?
500
This 19th century movement believed society and institutions corrupted the purity of the individual and was embodied by the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
What is Transcendentalism?
500
This Massachusetts judicial case in 1842 ruled that labor unions were legal for the purposes of raising wages.