Age of Reform
Age of Industry
Age of Jackson
SCOTUS
Sectionalism
Random
100
Would you like a drink? No thanks, I prefer to capital T totally abstain.
What is teetotalism
100
The Clermont is an early example of these, which greatly increased American commerce.
What is a steamboat
100
Grew from 350k to 2.4m over the period from 1824-1840
What is the electorate
100
The SCOTUS has the ability to review decisions of State Courts
What is Cohens v Virginia
100
The Region of the US that was the most industrialized.
What is the Northeast
100
Left: Europe; Right: South America & United States
What is the Monroe Doctrine
200
Because without this, a democratic society cannot hope to survive. - Horace Mann (not real quote)
What is public education reform
200
He pioneered one of America's earliest dual-purpose factory, taking raw materials to finished product under one roof.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell
200
Constitutional provision that resolved the Election of 1824
What is the 12th Amendment
200
Native American Nations are sovereign, but NOT foreign nations
What is Worcester v. Georgia
200
The region of the country that was considered the bread basket of the US and was home to an increasingly commercialized agricultural economy. Also favored internal improvements
What is the West
200
Examples: Brook Farm, Oneida, New Harmony, the Shakers.
What are Utopian communities
300
From a desire to rectify the conditions in America's prisons, some states created these, which were designed to cultivate a more disciplined experience. The goal was to improve on the collective morality of society.
What is a penitentiary
300
In Commonwealth v Hunt, 1842, the Supreme Court validated these as a means of worker protection
What are strikes or labor unions
300
Andrew Jackson's nickname, by opponents.
What is King Andrew I
300
Only the Federal Gov't can regulate interstate commerce
What is Gibbons v. Ogden
300
Focused on cash crop farming, plantations, and slavery
What is the South
300
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach."
A quote, by this man, that embodies the emphases of non-conformity to modern life, individualism, and nature that were characteristic of the transcendentalism movement
Who is Henry David Thoreau
400
Wrote The Northstar
Who is Frederick Douglass
400
Allowed for greater collection of capital to fuel industrial and economic growth.
What is limited liability
400
For Jackson, winning the Presidency gives one the ability to fire and hire however they see fit, a practice known as...
What is the Spoils System
400
Bank of the United States is constitutional and cannot be taxed by individual states
What is McCulloch v. Maryland
400
This region supported tariffs
What is the North
400
This was representative of the new, "separate sphere," that women came to occupy as a result of an industrializing society
What is the Cult of Domesticity
500
One of the first abolitionists who used fierce arguments to fight slavery and demanded the immediate end to slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
500
Critics of the pre-Capitalist America claimed that wages in factories violated this economic theory because labor and profits were not being shared equally.
What is the labor theory of value
500
When Jackson couldn't simply eliminate the 2nd BUS by executive order, he instead instructed this Sec. of the Treasury to withdraw the gov'ts money and deposit it into "Pet Banks"
Who is Roger Taney
500
Original school charter was a contract and therefore cannot be invalidated by a state gov't
What is Dartmouth v Woodward
500
Due to a smaller population, this region was forced to ally itself politically with other regions to get changes in Congress
What is the West
500
He proposed a British-American alliance for the purposes of preventing further colonization of Latin America, which was rejected by Monroe in a fit of nationalism.
Who is Canning (George)