The Economy
Growth of Democracy
Religion and Reform
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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 franchise or suffrage?

100
These are ideal communities that allow people to live differently and realize their spiritual potential.
What are utopias?
100

The international slave trade was made illegal in which year?

1808

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 workers with boarding rooms, enforced strict curfews, evening lectures and cultural activities, prohibited alcoholic beverages and required regular church attendance.
What is the Waltham-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

In 1845, this territory was annexed by the United States, thereby in part precipitating the Mexican-American War.

What is Texas?

300
This man invented 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 utopia community embraced "complex marriages" and turned to perfectionism in a belief that people could aspire to sinless perfection in their earthly lives.
What is the Oneida community?
300

This system of networks and safehouses helped slaves to escape to freedom in the North.

What is the Underground Railroad?

300

This 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 be discovering their original relation with Nature and entering into a mystical union with the currents of Universal Being.
What is transcendentalism?
400

This group was founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the migration of free African Americans to the continent of Africa

What is the American Colonization Society?

400

He was the foremost expansionist president of the latter antebellum era.

Who was James K. Polk?

500

This was the first protective tariff in U.S. history.

What is the Tariff of 1816?

500
This system was destroyed during Jackson's presidency in keeping with his belief in a laissez-faire government.
What is the American System?
500

This American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening and abolitionist movement in the United States has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism."

Charles Grandison Finney

500

This compromise established the line of 36ยบ30' as dividing future free and slave states.

What is the Compromise of 1820?

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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