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The purpose behind the spoils system under this president was to reward political supporters with public office.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
As a result of the development of this device, slavery revived and expanded.
What was the cotton gin?
In this case, it was decided that the Supreme Court has the right to determine the constitutionality of legislation.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
These acts granted Marylanders freedom of Christian worship.
What are the Acts of Toleration?
He began a rebellion primarily caused by the poverty and discontent of many single young men unable to acquire land.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This Era was sharply disrupted by the panic of 1819 and the battle over slavery in Missouri.
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
This bill introduced in Congress during the Mexican War declared that slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded (gave up) to the United States.
What was the Wilmot Proviso? +2
This reformer is known for championing the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix? +2
The triangular trade involved the sale of rum, molasses, and slaves among these three areas.
What are New England, Africa, and West Indies?
This president proclaimed in his message of 1823 that the US would not tolerate further European intervention or colonization in the Americas.
Who is Monroe? (Monroe Doctrine) +2
Stephen A. Douglas’ plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the this act passed by Congress.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
John Marshall held that the federal Bank of the US was constitutional, and no state had a right to tax it in this case.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland? +2
Celebration of women's roles within the home is known as this.
What is cult of domesticity?
This was the single most important qualification for voting, above all others, in the provincial government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What was Church membership?
He led other debt-ridden farmers who were losing their land to foreclosures in a rebellion.
Who is Daniel Shay? +2
The most alarming aspect of this legislation to northerners was the concession to the South concerning the revised, more stringent and coercive Fugitive Slave Law.
What was the Compromise of 1850? +2
According to Southerners, this tariff protected New England manufacturing at their economic expense.
What was the “Tariff of Abominations” ?
The Second Great Awakening reshaped American religion by making it more reliant on _____ as members and social reformers.
Who are women?
The primary early colonial competitor with Spain in the New World was this country.
What was Portugal?
Among the important factors that first stimulated European interest in trade and discovery was this group of people who brought back a taste for silks and spices of Asia. (Hint: two words relating to religion)
Who were the Christian crusaders? +2
Explain the Dred Scott case and decision. What cases will it be used as a precedent in?
Slave moves to a free state and unsuccessfully sues for his freedom. This leads to Plessy v. Ferguson & Brown v. Board of Education
In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was to be decided by this.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Transcendentalist wrote an essay entitled "Civil Disobedience" and refused to pay taxes that supported the Mexican-American War.
Who is Henry David Thoreau? +2
The first free public education system in the United States began in this colony.
What is Massachusetts? +2