This method of interpreting the Constitution required that the government could only do what was specifically written in the Constitution.
What is Strict Construction?
100
This acquisition of a large piece of land by President Jefferson went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This region of the US was the most industrialized.
What is the North or Northeast?
100
This religious movement encouraged people to improve their lives and led to the start of various reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
This inventor from Augusta County, Virginia, developed the reaper. Along with the steel plow, his invention transformed agriculture in the midwest.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
200
This method of interpreting the Constitution allowed for the government to expand its powers based on the Elastic Clause.
What is Broad (or Loose) Construction?
200
Based on the idea of Strict Interpretation of the Constitution, the Democratic-Republicans favored giving most power to the --
What is States?
200
This region of the country was considered the bread basket of the US and provided a majority of the food for the country.
What is the West or Midwest
200
This actually began during the American Revolution with the idea of Republican Motherhood. It became more powerful during the reform era of the 1830s-40s and was symbolized by the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
What is the Women's Rights Movement?
200
The first major industry of the US, it developed in part because of the Embargo Act in the early 1800's.
What is the Textile Industry?
300
The part of the Federal government that had the power to interpret the laws of both the States and whole country and determine if they were Constitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
300
This event marked the peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democrat-Republicans.
What is the Revolution of 1800 or the Election of Thomas Jefferson?
300
This cash crop, and the dependence upon slave labor to produce it, defined the South.
What is "King Cotton"?
300
This reform movement encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home.
What is Temperance Movement?
300
This invention helped to connect the North and South. It allowed the South to meet the demand for raw materials needed in Northern textile factories.
What is the Cotton Gin?
400
This supreme court case determined a law passed by Congress was unconstitutional. More importantly, it gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
This law outlawed trade with all foreign countries. It was an example of Jefferson and the Democrat-Republicans abandoning strict interpretation of the Constitution in favor of broad (or loose) interpretation.
What is the Embargo Act?
400
Addressing the issue of slavery, this 1820 agreement admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This person fought to improve conditions for the mentally ill who were living in asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
400
This invention increased the speed of communication and helped to improve business production.
What is the Telegraph?
500
This Supreme Court case increased the power of the federal government and ruled that a National Bank was constitutional.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
500
Jefferson and the Democrat-Republicans avoided these wars in Europe between 1802-12. Thus, they were able to adhere to Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality during this period.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
500
The North favored this economic policy because it made foreign products more expensive and encouraged people to buy American products. The South was opposed.
What are Tariffs?
500
One of the first abolitionists, this man used fierce arguments to demand the immediate end to slavery in his weekly publication, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
This transportation route connected New York to the Midwest and helped increase industrialization and migration.