Reform Movements and Culture
This reform movement advocated for an end to drunkenness and alcoholism
What is...the temperance movement
Thomas Jefferson sent these two explorers on a fact finding mission into the Louisiana Territory between 1804-1806
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
This 1803 territorial acquisition from France doubled the size of the United States
The Louisiana Purchase
A tax on imports or exports
Tariff
More than 46,000 Native Americans were forced—sometimes by the U.S. military—to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory” under this 1830 Act
The "Indian" Removal Act of 1830
This group of New York artists painted rich landscapes that reflected the natural world and the emergence of a distinct American culture
The Hudson River School
This party argued that the scope of federal government should be reduced in order to restore republican ideals
Democratic-Republicans
This term refers to the belief that it was destiny of the United States the expand Westward because they were "culturally superior"
Manifest Destiny
The fundamental transformation of the United States economy throughout the first half of the 19th century, primarily due to the widespread mechanization of industry and the expansion and integration of various economic markets both domestic and foreign.
The Market Revolution
These immigrants settled in urban areas of the North after they experienced a potato famine in the 1840s.
Irish immigrants (mostly Catholic)
A core belief of this nineteenth century movement was that individual conduct should be guided by truths found in the individual conscience.
Transcendentalism
Amendments to the United States Constitution expanded voting rights to which group in the early nineteenth century?
All white men (even those who didn't own land)
This war led to territorial acquisitions in the southwestern region of the United States (Texas, California, New Mexico)
The Mexican American War
Henry Clay's plan for the federal government to pay for internal improvements by creating protective tariffs
The American System
This political group favored a strong federal government and supported tariffs
Whig Party (Party of Henry Clay)
Women at this 1848 meeting in New York drafted a Declaration resolving that women and men were equal
Seneca Falls Convention
Impressment was a principal issue of this war between the United States and Great Britain in the 1810s
The War of 1812
Henry Clay proposed this legislation in 1820 to resolve discord between the North and the South by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel.
The Missouri Compromise
This party was critical of Henry Clay's American System and supported state's rights to regulate their economies.
Jacksonian Democrats
The separation of economic production from the home and family life in the 1830s and 1840s was a distinctive feature of this social class.
The middle class
An American Transcendentalist poet, philosopher and essayist during the 19th century; Well known for his essay "Self-Reliance.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Jefferson's vision for the United States as an agricultural republic emphasized this role of this social group.
Yeoman farmers (independent farmers with small landholdings)
The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region of the United States intensified controversies over the following issue.
Slavery
Allowing slavery in the new territories
An example of a technological innovation created during the Market Revolution:
Name of Creator and Innovation
Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney
South Carolina nullified (declare void) this policy in 1828 because it restricted the valuable trade of Cotton with Europe.
The Tariff of 1828
or
The Tariff of Abominations