The relationship and balance of power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
100
This is considered the first "big business" of the industrial age in America. It greatly enhanced trade and travel across the country.
What are railroads
100
Period of religious revivalism that swept the nation and inspired several reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
This case established the Supreme Court's the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
This president campaigned on the promise to expand the United States' territory from sea to shining sea. He settled the dispute with Britain over the Oregon Territory and went to war with Mexico to acquire the CA and NM territories.
Who is James K. Polk?
200
One of the primary parties of the second party system, they were made up of former Federalists and Republicans and led by Henry Clay.
What is the Whig Party
200
This massive project opened up trade between the Midwest and East coast, turning New York into the major center of trade in the U.S.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
This transcendentalist thinker questioned the benefits of the industrial revolution, advocated disobeying unjust laws, and believed that people should live a life of simplicity.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
This statement held that any attempt by a European nation to colonize lands in America would be viewed as an unfriendly act against the U.S.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
This religious group traveled westward in order to evade persecution, eventually settling in Deseret.
Who are the Mormons?
300
This agreement set up a bicameral legislature where representation in the House was based on population and the Senate had equal representation.
What is the Connecticut Compromise? (Great Compromise & Connecticut Plan also acceptable)
300
This invention greatly increased the efficiency of cotton production, facilitating the cultivation the crop across the Old Southwest.
What is the cotton gin?
300
The two largest immigrant groups of the early industrial era, one group was composed mostly of the working poor while the other was largely made up of middle class skilled professionals.
Who are the Irish and the Germans?
300
This is the name for the incident where the French government asked for a bribe in order to engage in negotiations.
What is the XYZ Affair?
300
This policy would have eliminated slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
These political statements made in response to the Alien & Sedition Acts claimed that states had the right to nullify federal laws that they deemed unconstitutional
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
400
These young women often lived in company housing, worked long hours, and organized one of the first successful labor strikes in the U.S.
Who are the Lowell mill girls?
400
This artistic movement sought to capture the beauty of an American landscape disappearing in the industrial age.
What is the Hudson River school?
400
This Supreme Court case established that a state cannot tax an agency of the federal government since the power to tax is the power to destroy.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
400
The policy of allowing a newly admitted state to decide for itself whether to allow slavery.
What is "popular sovereignty"? ("squatter sovereignty" also acceptable)
500
The last state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
500
The system of manufacturing products with interchangeable parts and Henry Clay's program of internal improvements share this common name.
What is the "American system"?
500
The idea that men were better at politics and wordly affairs while women were morally superior.
What is the "separate spheres" doctrine?
500
This agreement arranged for the withdrawal of British troops from American soil some 10 years after the conclusion of the American Revolution
What is Jay's Treaty?
500
Led by men such as Jedidiah Smith, these men of the West were mostly white, fur trappers.