The Mass Democracy
This event in American History resulted when the speaker of the house, Henry Clay received a position in the cabinet after John Quincy Adams was elected.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
Theory promoted by John C. Calhoun that promoted disregarding federal laws.
What is Nullification?
Federal government bureau that reviews legal applications for the new inventions
What is the Patent Office?
This inventor made the cotton gin expanding the need for slavery in the south.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The notion that women were to preserve the national spirit and protect men from their beastly and savage ways
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This new philosophy was created after the election of Andrew Jackson to award political proponents with an office.
What is the Spoils System?
The economic crisis caused by over speculation and Jackson's hard-money financial policies
What is the Panic of 1837?
The man labeled as the "Father of the Factory System"
Who is Samuel Slater?
This machine mechanized the harvest of grains fueling the large-scale commercial agriculture in the midwest
What was the McCormick Reaper?
This place makes the start of the women movement in the 19th century
What is the Senca Falls Convention?
This tariff was opposed by the slavery south after it raised the prices on goods imported from Britain.
What is the Tariff of 1828 (a.k.a Yankee Tarrif)?
The political party that stressed individual liberty, rights of the common people, and hostility to the aristocracy
Who were the Democrats?
An Irish semi-secret society that served as a benevolent downtrodden Irish in the US
What is The Ancient Order of Hiberians?
Young women employed in the growing factories of the 19th century who worked long hours only to go to church on Sundays
Who were the Lowell Girls?
The group that was formed in 1826 persuaded people to stop drinking
What was the American Temperance Society?
"Old Tippecanoe" who was portrayed by whigs to look like a hard-drinking commoner man of the frontier
Who is William Henery Harrison?
A bill passed by Congress that resulted in an independent treasury and put government funds in vaults
What is the Independent Treasury Bill?
The economic system the US had made by 1860 where different regions produce different products to fuel each other
What is a Continental Economy?
The first message that was sent over the telegraph
What is "What Hath God Wrought?"
A wilderness community that practiced eugenic selection that tuned into a silverware producer
What is the Oneida Community?
Andrew Jackson's nickname that symbolized toughness and strength
What is "Old Hickory?"
A bill that allows the president to use the army to force tax collection
What is the Force Bill?
The court case that made unions legal and gave rights to negotiate labor contracts
What was Commonwealth v. Hunt?
Robert Fulton installed a steam engine on this boat
The first college to let women study for a post-secondary degree
What is Oberlin College?