Jefferson & Madison
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This invention by Eli Whitney made the cash crop more profitable and expanded slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
Voting rights were extended to all of this group, regardless if they owned property or not.
Who are white men?
This movement sought to reduce or ban the consumption of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
This doctrine announced U.S. opposition to further European colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
John Marshall established this Supreme Court principle in Marbury v. Madison (1803).
What is judicial review?
These groups formed in response to low wages, long hours, and unsafe factory conditions.
What are labor unions?
The forced removal of the Cherokee on a deadly journey west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This movement sought to put an end to slavery.
What is abolitionism?
This term describes hostility toward immigrants, especially Catholics.
What is nativism?
Jefferson's 1807 attempt to avoid war by ending foreign trade.
What is the Embargo Act?
This innovation expanded rapidly in the 1830s–40s, allowing faster overland shipping of goods and passengers.
What are railroads?
South Carolina threatened this action, claiming states could void federal laws they opposed.
What is nullification?
This former slave became a major abolitionist speaker and newspaper editor.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This movement celebrated emotion, nature, and individualism in literature and art.
What is Romanticism?
"War Hawks" pushed the U.S. into this war (against Great Britain...again) during Madison's presidence.
What is the War of 1812?
This form of transportation, powered by steam, enabled faster travel on rivers.
What is the steamboat?
Despite winning the popular vote in 1824, Jackson lost the presidency to this individual after a congressional vote.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This reformer led the movement to improve prisons and treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This preacher was the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
The Hartford Convention of 1814 ultimately marked the end of this political party.
Who are the Federalists?
This political-economic program by Henry Clay aimed to unite regional economies through tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank.
What is the American System?
Jackson rewarded loyal supporters with government jobs through this controversial system.
What is the spoils system?
This religious revival movement inspired many reforms during the antebellum period.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This 19th-century movement sought truth through intuition and nature, influencing writers like Thoreau.
What is Transcendentalism?