The Economy
Growth of Democracy
Religion and Reform
The South Expands
Random Things
100
This happened between 1790 and 1860 and enabled merchants and manufacturers to reorganize work routines, build factories, and exploit a wide range of natural resources.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100

This is another term for the right to vote.

What is suffrage (franchise)?

100

Ideal communities that allow people to live differently and realize their spiritual potential.

What are utopias?

100
Slavery subsidized an elegant lifestyle for a white elite and provided tutelage for genetically inferior Africans is one of the ways that southern apologists claimed that slavery was this.
What is a positive good?
100
This author was a part of the transcendentalist movement and wrote "Leaves of Grass."
Who is Walt Whitman?
200

This was a cheaper source of labor and provided female workers with boarding rooms, enforced strict curfews, evening lectures and cultural activities, prohibited alcoholic beverages and required regular church attendance.

What is the Lowell System?

200

This is when after winning an election politicians reward their supporters by giving them jobs and positions within the government.

What is the spoils system?

200

This man is the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Who is Joseph Smith?

200
This cash crop in the south enabled slavery to grow and spread in the early 19th century.
What is cotton?
200
This man facilitated the settlement of Texas by Americans in the 1830s.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
300

This man invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts that was a technological innovation.

Who is Eli Whitney?

300

This term was used after the election of 1824 was won by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay was made his Secretary of State.

What is the corrupt bargain?

300

This movement called for the complete prohibition and/or moderation of the consumption of alcohol.

What is the Temperance Movement?

300
The term refers to the belief that slaves are tangible personal property of their owners.
What is chattel?
300
This informal agreement in the House automatically tabled antislavery petitions thereby keeping the explosive issue of slavery off the congressional stage.
What is the gag rule?
400

These organizations enable workers to collectively bargain with their employers for better hours and wages.

What are unions?

400

The argument that a state has the right to void within its borders, a law passed by Congress.

What is nullification?

400

This is a belief that individuals could be remade only through introspection and discovering their original relation with Nature and entering into a mystical union with the currents of Universal Being.

What is transcendentalism?

400
This belief generally ignored the doctrines of original sin and predestination and preachers didn't use biblical passages that encouraged unthinking obedience to authority.
What is Black Protestantism?
400
This was an informal network of whites and free blacks that assisted fugitives by providing lodging, food and support.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500

This was made up of farmers, mechanics, manufacturers, and traders who carry on professionally the ordinary operations of buying, selling, and exchanging merchandise.

What is the middle class?

500

Henry Clay's infrastructure system was destroyed during Jackson's presidency in keeping with his belief in a laissez-faire government.

What is the American System?

500

This reform movement was supported by christians of all colors and called for the immediate emancipation of slaves.

What is abolitionism?

500

This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe is considered to be a fundamental influence in the development of the Civil War.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

500
This caused the southern states to threaten to nullify and/ or succeed from the union while Jackson was president.
What is the tariff of abominations?
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