Jackson and Federal Power
The private institution that Jackson thought was corrupt and wanted to end.
What is The Bank of the US?
The name of the artistic, literary, and intellectual movement of this era.
What is romanticism?
It was called the Second Great Awakening because we had previously had...this.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This movement sought to make alcohol disappear.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Laws that made life EVEN MORE difficult for slaves and free Black Americans
What are slave codes?
The name for Jackson's party.
What are democrats?
The European country where most of the architecture from this period was borrowed.
What is Greece?
This "rational" approach to religion, common in the days of the constitution, said there probably was a god, but not quite the one in the Bible.
What is Deism?
Utopian "communities" give us our first exposure to this idea, which will become an important economic approach in twentieth century history.
What is communism?
The name for slave states from Georgia to Texas.
What is the Cotton Belt?
The other main party of the Jackson era...not democrats.
What are whigs?
The famous school of American painters of this era, named after the big river in New York City.
What is the Hudson River School?
Who were the most prominent leaders of this awakening...men or women?
Who were women?
A religious community that believed in "spiritual equality" of the sexes. Although, they lived separately.
Who are the Shakers?
His attempt at rebellion was stopped before it got started, and he was hanged.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
The theory that a state can reject federal laws it doesn't agree with.
What is nullification?
The famous book by James Fenimore Cooper that tells of a white man raised by Native Americans.
What is Last of the Mohicans?
Towns in upstate New York, along the Erie Canal, were referred to as this...because the revivals featured "hell-and-brimstone" sermons.
What is the burned over district?
A publisher of a newspaper, and leader of the abolitionist movement.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
His rebellion in 1831 resulted in 75 whites killed. He was then killed himself.
Who is Nat Turner?
Jackson's VP, he quit over the Nullification Crisis
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The title for writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
What is Transcendentalists.
The most famous preacher of this awakening.
Who is Charles Finney?
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
At the heart of African American communities in this period were family and this...
What is religion?