Social Reform
a widespread Protestant religious revival movement that swept across the United States during the early 19th century, characterized by emotional preaching, camp meetings, and a focus on personal conversion, which led to the rise of new denominations and fueled various social reform movements
2nd Great Awakening
In 1857, this Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be citizens and that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories
Dred Scott v Sanford
American President who passed the Embargo Act of 1807 in pursuit of peaceful coercion, a policy that would cripple the New England economy
Thomas Jefferson
The ruling that established the principal of Judicial Review
Marbury vs Madison
The collapse of the federalist party is most associated with this meeting.
Hartford Convention
1st state to secede from the Union after the election of 1860
South Carolina
Leading figures in the Women's suffrage movement who organized the Seneca Falls Movement
Elizabeth Cady Staton & Lucretia Mott
This abolitionist led a violent raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, hoping to incite a slave rebellion.
John Brown
President who supported expansion and ran on the campaign slogan 54 40 or Fight
James Polk
The ruling that states cannot tax the federal government, also recognized the 2nd National Bank
McCulloch v Maryland
2 examples of states attempting to undermine central authority prioritizing state rights over the central government
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the Nullification Crisis
Jefferson Davis
This woman is credited with leading the reform movement for the mentally ill in the United States, advocating for better treatment and the establishment of asylums.
Dorothea Dix
This compromise aimed to resolve disputes between slave and free states but ultimately failed to prevent sectional tensions, especially with the admission of California as a free state.
Compromise of 1850
Won the election of 1828, the first election with universal male suffrage
Andrew Jackson
The ruling that only the federal government regulates interstate trade
Gibbons v Ogden
Ghent, Guadalupe Hidalgo, Paris 1783, Adams Onis, Webster Ashburton & Rush Bagot
The president that failed to preserve the Union after the election of 1860
James Buchannan
This Massachusetts educator pushed for the establishment of public schools
Horace Mann
This political party, founded in 1854, a result of the Conscience Whigs and Free Soil parties merging, opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories and became a major political force in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Republican Party
Democratic Republican President who signed the Missouri Compromise and was most associated with the era of good feelings
James Monroe
The Supreme Court justice who is credited with establishing the role of the Supreme Court through rulings such as Marbury v Madison
John Marshall
The proposal to have Texas entered as a free state
Wilmot Proviso
Lincoln would challenge his opponent in the 1858 Senate race to a series of debates in what would become known as...
The Lincoln Douglas Debates
This philosopher and author, best known for his book Walden, was a central figure in the transcendentalist movement and advocated for simple living and self-reliance
Henry David Thoreau
Causes of the Civil War
Failed compromises, slavery, Dred Scott, Election of 1860
The first president to come to office as a result of the death of the sitting president. He was referred to as "His accidency" by his party and every member of his cabinet would resign except for Daniel Webster
John Tyler
The Supreme Court Justice who nationalized slavery in his ruling in the Dred Scott V Sanford case
Roger Taney
Following the election of 1860, The proposal to add a Constitutional amendment legalizing slavery
Crittenden Compromise
The Freeport Doctrine