Politics
First peaceful transfer of power
Election of 1800 - TJ
This act removed the Cherokee from Georgia in 1838-1839.
Indian Removal Act of 1830 // Trail of Tears
Individualists who believed that people could stretch beyond their known capabilities
Transcendentalists
Examples of Utopian societies
Shakers and Oneida
Terms for the growing division between the north and the south
Sectionalism
Era with minimal partisanship/disagreement in politics
Era of Good Feelings
South Carolina passed this in response to the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
Ordinance of Nullification
Author of Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Rooted in the increasing consumption of alcohol and tied tightly to the Second Great Awakening.
Temperance Movement
Rebellion that resulted in the deaths of 75 white Americans.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Supreme Court case that instituted Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
Term for the break up of the national banks into smaller state banks; brainchild of Jackson
Pet Banks
Religious revival that unfolded from the years 1801 to the mid-1830s
Second Great Awakening
An "immediate" abolitionist; author of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Planned a revolt to murder every white in the South
Denmark Vesey
Supreme Court ruled that Indian nations were “domestic dependent nations,” and thus should be dealt with by the federal government, not state governments
Worcester v. Georgia
By its completion in 1825, it measured 363 miles and connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes
Erie Canal
Americans in this period migrated in increasing numbers and young people moved from home to pursue economic gains in greater numbers than ever before
Market Revolution
Major event that marks the beginning of the Women's Rights Movements
Seneca Fall Convention (1848)
Through this, marriages were not considered legal, education was prohibited, and rape of black women were not punished
Slave Codes
US obtained FL, Spain gave claims to the Oregon Territory to the US which extended the US to the Pacific
Adams-Onis Treaty
A legislative economic program designed to unify the nation
American System
The most effective of the charismatic evangelists of the Second Great Awakening
Charles G. Finney
Rule that prohibited all discussion of abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives
The Gag Rule
Land that extended from Georgia to Texas; more than half of the Americans who moved to this region after 1815 were enslaved blacks
Cotton Belt