Andrew Jackson's Presidency
This was Jackson's biggest opponent in the election of 1832
What is Henry Clay?
The class mainly composed of immigrants who lived in dense, urban areas
What is the lower class?
This was the direction the mormons migrated to in the United States
What is West?
The act of officially ending slavery
What is abolition?
This person won the election of 1824
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This was the political party Jackson aligned with
What is the Democratic Party?
The class that dominated politics in the 1810's/20's
The Intellectual movement rooted in Unitarianism
What is Transcendentalism
What is Evangelical Abolitionism?
This person had the highest % of the popular vote
Who is Andrew Jackson
The controversial removal of Native Americans was called
What is Trail of Tears?
This event in Ireland caused a spike in migration to the United States in the 1840's
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This person heavily pushed for Individualism
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A slave revolt in Virginia that severely dampened and worsened African American treatment
What is the Nate Turners Revolt?
This speaker of the house "thwarted" Jackson's chance of winning
Who is Henry Clay?
This was the crisis in South Carolina over Andrew Jacksons Tariffs
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This group of people were northern landlors, slaveowning planters, and seaport merchants who dominated the political system in the new republic.
What is the Notables?
A movement in 1826 that created new ways to reach people through public lectures and pushed for discussion; was attractive to the middle class.
What is the Lyceum movement
A book that focused on social uplift, justified slave rebellion, and pushed for abolition
What is David Walker’s Appeal
This system was endorsed by the president
What is the American System?
The year the National Bank's charter ended and Jackson refused to renew it
What is 1836?
This was the most successful evangelical social reform effort
What is the Temperance Movement?
Name two people who were inspired by Emerson's works
Who is Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, or Herman Melville?
Law that was passed in 1836 by congress to keep abolitionists from petitioning for abolition and was kept in place until 1844
What is the Gag Rule of 1836?
The amount of votes John Q Adams had in the election (5,000 vote marginal error accepted)
113,122 Votes