National Affairs
This was the purchase and trade of black laborers through things like the Triangle Trade - the British and Spanish treated them horribly, but the French colonies treated them well by comparison.
What is slavery in the colonies?
This governor of Massachusetts helped establish the colony's government and shape its legislative policy - "City upon a hill"
Who was John Winthrop?
This group of colonists remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Who were the Loyalists/Tories?
This war fought over a Texas border dispute served as a key example of how bitter the debate was about expanding slavery into new territories.
What is the Mexican War?
This concept's goal was to achieve self-sufficiency for the Mother Country
What is mercantilism?
This compromise aimed at addressing the territorial and slavery-related issues arising from the newly acquired territories following the Mexican-American War. It attempted to ease tensions between Northern and Southern states over the expansion of slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This royal governor had slaves fight for the British crown in exchange for their freedom
Who is Lord Dunmore?
This political faction was against the continued immigration and spread of Irish Catholics, and ended up contributing to the evolution of 1800's primary political parties
Who were the Know-Nothings?
This doctrine passed byt the US Government tells EU nations that if they attempt to move into Latin America, they will use military force to get them out, and EU Countries actually respect their stance
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This period encompassed the industrial and transportation revolutions, the change from subsistence farming to large-scale cash farming, regional specialization, immigration, western movement, and the growth of cities.
What is the Market Revolution?
This compromise allowed Maine would be created from Massachusetts as a free state, with Missouri entering as a slave state, but just simply pushed off the issue of slavery and the Civil War
What it the Missouri Compromise?
He called out the Puritans and demanded separation of Church & State
Who is Roger Williams?
This group wanted to remove foreign threats from the border and expand the territory - Included Clay and Calhoon
Who are the War Hawks?
These immigrants were driven to the US by famine and ended up making up a large majority of the New England factory workers.
Who were the Irish immigrants?
This system was considered the first modern factory system - it had both housing and factories in the same town
What is the Lowell System?
This was a social movement in the United States, particularly prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and aimed at reducing or eliminating the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What is temperance?
This president opposed the national bank, increased presidential power, and opposed nullification.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This political party primarily opposed the expansion of slavery.
Wha was the Republican Party?
This group was created to transport blacks back to a US-bought piece of land in western Africa, which eventually became Liberia
What is the American Colonization Society?
This system punished prisoners but also aimed to conform them back into productive, law-abiding members of society.
What is the Auburn System?
A group of people that supported a complete, immediate, and uncompensated end to slavery in a variety of ways.
Who were the abolitionists?
This president's single term is remembered for its successful expansionist policies, which significantly increased the territorial size of the United States. He remains one of the few presidents who achieved most of their stated goals during their single term in office.
Who is James K. Polk?
This political party united in opposition to Jackson's policies & believed in Clay's American System and government intervention to change society.
Who were the Whigs?
This treaty allowed the US to become an economic partner with Britian by giving them a preferred trading status; allowed for early Us to get their economic footing
What it Jay's Treaty?
This middle-class ideal stated that women's roles were separate from men's, with women running the household and men making money outside of it.
What is separate spheres?