Looking Beyond the United States
This conflict between the United States and Great Britain erupted over trade restrictions and British support for Native American resistance.
What is the War of 1812?
These two political parties emerged in the 1820s and 1830s.
What are the Whigs and the Democrats?
This invention made it easier to separate cotton fibers from its seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
This group of people were given the right to vote in the 1830s?
This reform movement aimed to end the institution of slavery in the United States.
What is the abolition movement?
Congress passed this law in 1807 to stop all trade with foreign countries in hopes of punishing Britain and France.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
This Supreme Court case established that the Supreme Court has the power to determine whether a law is constitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
This invention became a way to generate energy from steam.
The Steam Engine
This religious movement aimed to "revive" people's religious devotion, featured large camp meetings, and emphasized personal salvation.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This region's economy relied heavily on manufacturing and trade and was the main focus for internal improvements like canals and railroads.
What is the North?
This agreement between northern and southern states stated three things:
1. Missouri would join the United States as a slave state.
2. Maine would join as a free state.
3. No state above the 36'30 line would be a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Seventh President of the United States, this man was a war hero known for supporting the "common man."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This machine, invented by Samuel Morse, allowed people to send electrical signals (which were then translated into messages) across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
This social movement urged people to reduce or stop drinking alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This region's economy was heavily agricultural and relied on the institution of slavery.
What is the South?
This 1819 treaty between the United States and Spain established a boundary between the US and New Spain (Mexico) and gave Florida to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Known as an "abomination," this was a high, protective tax meant to protect Northern manufacturing at the expense of Southern states. It was the highest tax in history at this time.
What is the Tariff of 1828?
Built by the federal government, this highway was the first of its kind, stretching from Maryland to Illinois.
What is the National Road?
This national event marked the start of the women's rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This theory argued that the slave-plantation system of the South was beneficial for American society.
What is "slavery as a positive good"?
This US foreign policy warned European nations not to interfere with countries in the Western Hemisphere (North and South America).
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the Nullification Crisis?
What is the Market Revolution?
This document proclaimed that all men and women are created equal and demanded equal rights for women, including suffrage, education, property rights, and child custody.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This revolt was organized by an enslaved preacher and was the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history, leading to the death of more than 50 white men, women, and children.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?