Reform Era
The first great American advocate of public education, who believed that, in a democratic society, education should be free and universal, nonsectarian, democratic in method, and reliant on well-trained professional teachers.
Who was Horace Mann?
This is when politicians rewarded their supporters by giving them jobs and positions within the government after they won an election.
What is the Spoils System?
This region was the focus of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Northern U.S.?
A transportation route that connected New York to the Midwest and helped improve industrialization and migration
What is the Erie Canal?
which state wanted to join the Union during Jackson's presidency?
What is Texas?
A perfect society in which ideal components and equal rights are administered through government justly.
What is a Utopia?
what party was created by Clay to go against Andrew Jackson?
What is the Whig Party?
Region of the U.S. that was considered the bread basket as they produced the most food for the country.
What is the midwest?
An American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
President of the Second Bank of the United States; he struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson.This philosophy stated that each person was to have direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches.
What is Transcendentalism?
His attempt of building up the economy of America. Jackson strongly opposed this, a plan from his nemisis...
What is the American System?
This was the most prominent subject of disagreement between the North and South during the mid to late 1800's.
What is slavery?
A system was designed so that manufacturing processes were done in factories and the work was done by young adult women.
What is Lowell System?
After the Bank of the United States was closed, speculators borrowed large sums of money from state banks and it ended up causing the ______ __ _______.
What is the Panic of 1837?
Protestant revival movement during the early nineteenth century which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This term was used after the election of 1824 was won by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay was made his Secretary of State.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
Part of the U.S. that had the most differences compared to other regions.
What is Southern U.S.?
This increased communication and helped to improve business production.
What is the Telegraph?
This scandal involving US members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives.
What is the Petticoat or Peggy Eaton Affair?
The first American women's right's convention held in New York in 1848 which included a reading of the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The theory that state governments have the ultimate power over federal governments when it came to determining the constitutionality of laws.
What is Nullification?
An issue debated between the North and South. The North favored it because made foreign products more expensive and encouraged people to buy American products.
What are tariffs?
A principle created by Eli Whitney that allowed for the basis of modern mass-production
What is Interchangeable Parts?
Served as secretary of state during Andrew Jackson's first term, vice president during Jackson's second term, and won the presidency in 1836
Who is Martin Van Buren?