State v. Federal Power
Party Systems/Policies
Geography/ Regional Differences
Reform Era
Early Industrialization
100

A way to interpret the Constitution that believed the government could only do what was specifically written in the Constitution.

What is Strict Interpretation

100
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
100

The Region of the US that was the most industrialized and attracted immigrants for employment.

What is the North or Northeast

100

A religious movement that encouraged people to improve their lives which led to the start of various Reform Movements.

What is the 2nd Great Awakening

100

The person is credited with implementing interchangeable parts into the industry of America (leading to the assembly line).

Who is Eli Whitney

200

The event where South Carolina and John C. Calhoun (the sitting VP) threatened to secede and the sitting president (Andrew Jackson) refused to allow this to happen.

What is the Nullification Crisis.

200

This party was led by Andrew Jackson and fought for the common man and state's rights.

What is the Jacksonian Democrats or Democratic party

200

Where many settlers move to build farms on fertile land (like the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers).

What is the West or Midwest

200

beginning during the American Revolution (with the Republican Motherhood) but increased during the reform era and was symbolized by the Seneca Falls Convention.

What is the Women's Rights Movement

200

The agricultural invention that made farming more efficient and easier, (leading to an increase in cotton production and slavery based off of the profit)

What is the reaper or the cotton gin.

300

The Judge that played a major role in the early years of the US Supreme Court decisions.

Who is John Marshall

300

Led by Henry Clay, stood in opposition to Jackson and sought to make Jackson seem as though he was a tyrant ('King Andrew').

What is the Whig Party.

300

The social hierarchy that developed in the South due to the system of slavery, with plantation owners at the top and African Americans at the bottom.

What is Cottonocracy or 'King Cotton'

300

A reform movement that encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home.

What is the Temperance Movement

300

The concept that the North and South needed to be connected through the South meeting the demand of raw materials needed in Northern Textile factories.

What is the American System.

400

A supreme court case that gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.

What is Marbury v. Madison

400
This outlawed trade with all foreign countries and was another example of Jefferson and the Democrat-Republicans switching their Strict Interpretation of the Constitution to Broad.
What is the Embargo Act
400

The issue that led to high tensions between the North and South, as the North had industrialized and now took a moral standpoint on this issue while the South still needed the system for their economy.

What is Slavery

400

A movement that was created based off of ideals of the 2nd Great Awakening, and fought against the age-old system of slavery (fueled by the Underground RR, Harriet Tubman, and others).

What is the abolitionist movement or the anti-slavery movement

400

The growing disparity between the upper and lower classes in society and the rise of the middle class.

What are class divisions or class development

500

A supreme court case that increased the power of the Federal government and ruled that the states couldn't regulate interstate trade.

What is Gibbons v. Ogden

500

Jackson fought for this in order to expand the democracy of America (hint: he really focused his domestic policy on expanding rights for the commoners - specifically their voting rights).

What is white man's suffrage

500

An ideal that was first used by James Monroe to ward off European Settlement of Latin America (later used heavily during times such as the cold war).

What is the Monroe Doctrine

500

One of the first abolitionists who used fierce arguments in a newspaper The Liberator to fight slavery and demanded the immediate end to slavery.

Who is William Lloyd Garrison

500

An invention that came with the first industrial revolution and revolutionized transport (hint: waterways specifically).

What is the steamboat

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