Constitution
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This secret network of whites and free blacks helped lead hundreds to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Emerson's philosophy that each person has direct communication with God and nature.
What is transcendentalism?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
1607
When was Jamestown, 1st permanent English settlement, is established in VA?
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
DAILY DOUBLE
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
This conflict led to a brief period of nationalistic fervor, and helped the U.S. gain respect abroad.
What is the War of 1812?
1619
When did the first enslaved people arrive in VA?
A way to interpret the Constitution that believed the government could expand their powers based on the Elastic Clause.
What is broad or loose?
Women largely led this anti-alcohol movement in the mid-1800s.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’ .
What is the Missouri Compromise?
an expansion of Washington's neutrality precedent that warned European countries to leave the Western Hemisphere from further colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
Immigrants came in larger numbers from these two countries in the mid 1800s
What is Germany and Ireland?
1754
What is the start of the French and Indian War (Seven Year's War)?
A way to interpret the Constitution that believed the government could only do what was specifically written in the Constitution.
What is strict or literal?
President who vetoed the national bank, voice of the common man, and pushed through the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
MA farmers led an uprising in 1786 against new taxes imposed by the fledgling U.S. government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The widespread mechanization of U.S. industry and expansion of markets during the first half the 19th century.
What is the market revolution?
Jefferson signed a law outlawing trade with all foreign nations, a move that increased tension with Britain. Name the law.
What was the Embargo Act (1807)?
DAILY DOUBLE
1730 - 1745 movement
What is the 1st Great Awakening?
Devised by Eli Whitney in 1801 to more efficiently make rifles, allowing unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly and at lower cost.
What are interchangeable parts?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the women's suffrage movement and helped organize this New York meeting in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
He started a public education movement that pushed for better-developed, tax-funded, secular school systems. (Common School Movement)
Who is Horace Mann?
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Indian Removal Act? (Trail of Tears)
Nickname for Monroe's presidency that reflected a rising sense of nationalism (1817-1825).
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
1846-1848
What is the Mexican American War?