John Quincy Adams Presidency
Speaker of the House and key player in the Corrupt bargain that influenced the election in favor of John Quincy Adams
Who is Henry Clay
What act created Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma and Kansas and removed Native Americans east of the Mississippi river
What is the Indian removal act of 1830
an informal network of whites and free blacks that assisted fugitives to reach freedom in the north
What is the Underground Railroad
Who was the philosopher who was the leading voice of transcendentalism, reaching hundreds of thousands of people through writings and lectures?
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Who supported anti-abolitionist southern planters out of fear that freed blacks would work for lower wages and take their jobs?
Northern merchants/ wage earners/ manufacturers
The term Tariff of Abomination was coined by which group who argued it to be economically discriminatory
Who were southerners/planters
Which Indian tribe was forced west in the Trail of Tears
Who were the Cherokees
led the violent rebellion against slavery killing at least 55 white men, women, and children in Virginia
Who was Nat Turner
Transcendentalism appealed most to what class?
What is the middle class
Supporters of slavery benefited from the Internal division that occurred amongst abolitionists over this societal issue
What are women’s rights
Which region/interests did the Tariff of Abomination favor?
What is the industrial north
Who opposed the Indian removal act of 1830
evangelical Protestants
In 1833, William Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Weld established what organization to advocate for the abolition of slavery?
What is the New England Anti-Slavery Society
What term did Alexis de Tocqueville coin in 1835 to describe American society, which was no longer bound by traditional social institutions due to rapid economic growth and geographical expansion?
What is individualism?
the racial mixing and intermarriage that was universally opposed by almost all whites
What is amalgamation
Mercantilist economic program that included strengthening the national bank and raising tariffs for internal improvements
what is The American System (by Henry Clay)
In what Supreme Court case did Cherokees defend their lands and claimed the status of a “foreign nation.”
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
A term coined by female abolitionists who believed traditional gender roles and legal restrictions created a form of slavery for married women
Domestic Slavery
Many Americans migrated to rural areas of the Northeast and Midwest to create these ideal communities that allowed them to live differently and realize their spiritual potential.
What are Utopias?
Informal agreement when the House of Representatives automatically tabled antislavery petitions, so they would not be debate in congress.
What is Gag rule
Which state threatened to nullify the tariff of Abomination and potentially secede from the union during the nullification crisis?
What is South Carolina
Unlike most eastern Indian peoples, which tribe fought a successful guerrilla war against the U.S. Army in Florida during the 1840s?
Who are the Seminoles
African American activist and publisher of a stirring abolitionist pamphlet which ridiculed religious pretensions of slaveholders, justified slave rebellion, and warned of the consequences if justice was delayed.
Who was David Walker
This American author embraced the themes of transcendentalism and applied them to women’s independence.
Who is Margret Fuller?
The Georgia legislature offered a reward for the kidnapping of this determined abolitionist
Who was William Lloyd Garrison