Government
Third president of the United States, supporter of the agrarian republic
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Route taken by natives forcibly removed from their land by the Jackson administration. An estimated 4,000 people died on this route to Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in exchange of goods and services in market transactions due largely in part to transportation networks, roads, and canals.
What is the Market Revolution?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Whig leader who came up with a plan to build American infrastructure called the American System.
Who is Henry Clay?
The second national party formed in 1839. It arose in opposition of Andrew Jackson's policies and conduct.
Who are the Whigs?
First women's rights convention held in New York in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
364 mile man-made waterway connecting the Hudson River with the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
This country's revolution had a role in shaping America's commitment to slavery during the Antebellum era.
What is Haiti?
President responsible for the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Who is John Adams?
The party of Thomas Jefferson, they believed in smaller government, individual liberty, and the preservation of the Constitution.
Who are the Democratic Republicans?
Antiforeign movement in the United states that favored native-born citizens and fueled anti-immigrant sentiment and immigration restriction policies.
What is Nativism?
Who is Eli Whitney?
After escaping slavery, he became a leading abolitionist and social reformer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The 1823 declaration that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any further colonization or interference by European powers. In exchange, the United States would not become involved in European struggles.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
A conflict between South Carolina and the Federal Government in regard to a state's obligation to follow federal laws (1832-1833).
What is the Nullification Crisis?
1824 Supreme Court case that expanded the power of the federal government and solidified the constitutionality of the national bank?
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Inventor of the steam engine.
Who is Robert Fulton?
As a result of the Compromise of 1820 each of these states was admitted into the Union. One was free and one was slave.
What is Missouri (Slave) and Maine (Free).
1831 slave rebellion in Virginia that killed between 55 and 65 people. This led to violent retribution from Southern whites who feared future slave uprisings.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Candidate who defeated Andrew Jackson in the 1824. Leader of the "corrupt bargain."
who is John Quincy Adams?
Name of the women workers in the Massachusetts manufacturing factories.
Who are the Lowell Girls?
This industry led the manufacturing industrial revolution in places like Massachusetts.
What is the textile industry?
An 1857 Supreme Court Case that said a slave owner could take their slaves with them anywhere in the Union.
What is Dred Scot v. Sanford?
Existentialist author of Walden, or Life in the Woods.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?