The Jeffersonian Era
This is the name for the government's 1803 purchase from France of the vast territory west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This movement was founded in the 1830s and proposed that individuals look inside themselves and to nature for spiritual and moral guidance rather than to formal religion.
What is TRANSCENDENTALISM?
What was THE COTTON GIN?
This act was passed in 1830. The Cherokee refused to accept the terms of the act and fought back.
What is the INDIAN REMOVAL ACT?
THIS compromise established a line of latitude in the Louisiana Territory that territories above this line would be admitted as free states and territories below the line would be admitted as slave states.
What was the MISSOURI COMPROMISE?
The Louisiana Purchase raised constitutional questions regarding THIS.
What is the right of the federal government to buy land from foreign nations?
The temperance movement gained support and momentum in large part due to THIS evangelical revival movement.
What is the SECOND GREAT AWAKENING?
This was competed in 1818 and went from Western Maryland through Pennsylvania and into West Virginia. It later expanded into Ohio and Illinois.
What is the NATIONAL ROAD?
In 1836, General Santa Anna crushed settlers defending THIS Texas fort. This incident increased popular support in the U.S. for Texas independence.
What is the ALAMO?
Northern states restricted THIS for African Americans in the period 1800-1848.
What is VOTING RIGHTS AND LAND OWNERSHIP?
THIS Supreme court decision established the authority of the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of federal laws.
What is MARBURY V. MADISON?
THIS man wrote an essay called "Nature" where he expressed his newfound belief in a Universal Being. This Being existed as an ideal reality beyond the material world and was accessible through nature. This belief was distinctly American.
Who was RALPH WALDO EMERSON?
The use of interchangeable parts, division of labor, and use of water-powered machinery were known as THIS.
What is AMERICAN SYSTEM OF MANUFACTURING?
Congress passed THIS in March 1836 to prevent further conflict of the topic of new states being admitted as either slave or free states.
What is a GAG RULE?
What is SLAVES OUTNUMBERED WHITES?
This 1807 act had a devastating impact on national commerce.
What was the EMBARGO ACT?
Throughout the 19th century, blame for poverty, "fallen" women, and crime was increasingly blamed on foreigners/immigrants. These anti-immigrant Americans were known as THIS.
What are NATIVISTS?
With the emergency of middle class, THIS idea restricted wives to home and hearth.
What is CULT OF DOMESTICITY.
Jackson argued that Indian removal would ensure it's "physical comfort", "political advancement" and THIS.
What is MORAL IMPROVEMENT?
By the 1850s, Southerners defended slavery by saying it was not a necessary evil, but a _________.
What is a POSITIVE SOCIAL GOOD?
The power of judicial review (ability to rule on course cases at both the federal and state level) was established in the 1820s under the direction of THIS chief justice.
Who was JOHN MARSHALL?
The Hudson River School was led by this man. Many painted romanticized landscapes.
who was THOMAS COLE?
THIS began in the South but hit northern cotton merchants hard. Cotton shipments were sharply curtailed and unemployment rose.
What was the PANIC OF 1837?
In October 1840, THIS Whig senator spoke to a gathering of 1,200 women, calling o them to encourage their brothers and husbands to vote for Harrison. This was the new group of anti-Jeffersonians who formed the new Whig party.
Who was DANIEL WEBSTER?
One hundred participants at the Seneca Falls convention signed THIS, which called for women's equality in everything from education and employment to legal rights and voting.
What was the DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS?