Period 4 Presidents
This US President vowed to shrink the US government and did so in may ways including shrinking the federal workforce and reducing the size of the US Military.
Thomas Jefferson
This invention by Eli Whitney led to a dramatic expansion of slavery in the United States.
Cotton Gin
This is the name for the fear or hatred of immigrants.
Nativism
This group of voters propelled Andrew Jackson to the presidency.
White Males/Poor White Males
This movement was centered around abolishing slavery in the US.
Abolitionist Movement
This US President famously said " the bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it" in reference to the Second National Bank of the US.
Andrew Jackson
This was the first truly successful large canal built in the US. It opened up trade between the Hudson River and Great Lakes.
Erie Canal
This was a religious revival that unfolded from 1801-1830's. It was seen as a counteroffensive to the shift away from traditional religion in the US.
Second Great Awakening
Jackson's followers called themselves this. The name of their new political party.
Democrats/Jacksonian Democrats
This rebellion in 1831 highlighted the plight and anger of slaves in the south and led to stricter slave codes. 75 people were killed in the rebellion and the leader was captured by a white militia and killed.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This US President made the following statement at his 1823 address to Congress: "The American continents...are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Powers."
James Monroe
This invention made traveling and shipping up river possible and caused freight charges to drop drastically.
Steam Engine/Steam Ship
During the 1840's and 1850's most immigrants to the US came from these two countries.
Ireland and Germany
This famous law led to the Trail of Tears. It called for all Native Americans to be moved to reservations west of the Mississippi River
Indian Removal Act
This system/company enlisted young women, mostly farmers daughters, to work in factories and earn money.
Lowell Mills/Lowell System
This US President served from 1808-1812. Was responsible for the Declaration of War in the War of 1812 which was conveniently nicknamed after him in later years.
James Madison
This system allowed unskilled workers to produce goods in faster, in large numbers, and made products cheaper.
Interchangeable Parts
Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton this was the first women's rights convention in the US
Seneca Falls Convention
Andrew Jackson ordered his treasury secretary to move federal money out of the national bank into several of these type of state banks in order to protest the charter of the Second National Bank. It should also be known that he had invested in several of these banks.
Pet Banks
This man was enslaved at birth and eventually purchased his freedom. He devised a plan to murder large numbers of whites in the South. His plan was halted before it started and he was hanged along with 47 of his co-conspirators.
Denmark Veazy
The nickname for the years directly following the War of 1812 highlighted by unity and dominance by the Democratic Republican Party
Era of Good Feelings
The was the first national highway in the US. It was built between 1811 and 1837 and was funded by the federal government.
Old National Road
This held that women remain in the domestic sphere and maintain their female virtues of entertaining, keeping the home, and raising children.
Cult of Domesticity
This Supreme Court Justice ruled against Jackson and the federal government in Worcester v Georgia and declared that the Natives could not be forcibly removed. Jackson ignored his order.
John Marshall
This document outlined the grievances of women and set the agenda for the Women's Rights Movement in the US.
Declaration of Sentiments