Politics and Power
The term for the eight- year period after the War of 1812 with one party rule
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
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?
Native American prophet who attempted to resist the endless flow of settlers into the west.
Who is Tecumseh and his brother?
"It is true I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them I take only my existence; from my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune; and oh! that I could make of my own fortune; and oh! that I could make that of my red people, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the Spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear the treaty and to obliterate the landmark; but I would say to him: “Sir, you have liberty to return to your own country.”
Who is Tecumseh?
They formed as the opposition to party to the Jacksonian era Democrats.
Who are the Whigs?
First women's rights convention held in New York in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Supreme Court justice who made sure the Republicans then Democrats knew the federal government was really in charge.
Who is John Marshall?
Treaty signed by the Americans and the British that ended the War of 1812 and changed absolutely nothing.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.
William Lloyd Garrison
Jefferson's failed attempt to bring warring England and France to the bargaining table.
What is the Embargo Act?
Most famous American evangelical preacher who emphasized emotion and humanity's good nature.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
Who is Eli Whitney?
Foreign policy document that told Europe the western hemisphere was closed for business.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
In such measures as I may be called on to pursue in regard to the rights of the separate States I hope to be animated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our Union, taking care not to confound the powers they have reserved to themselves with those they have granted to the Confederacy.
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson's crisis that tested his commitment to union rather than sectionalism.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Religious group that promoted gender equality and celibacy whom also made high quality furniture.
Who are the Shakers?
Financial institution chartered in 1790 and recharted in 1816 to give the nation a stable economic footing.
What is the Bank of the United States (BUS)?
Place where the Federalists met in 1814 to try and remain relevant.
What is the Hartford Convention?
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
The belief that those who are elected to political power should award their supporters with jobs.
Spoils system or patronage
What are "pet banks"?
Most successful Secretary of State in the 19th century who helped to acquire new territories and began to "fill in" the lower 48 states.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?