Americana
System focused on improved transportation infrastructure through private investment and states to connect the nation and strengthen the economy.
What is the American System?
James Watt invention that revolutionized not only textile factories but transportation as well.
What is the steam engine?
Treaty with Spain in 1819 that led to the purchase of Florida and Spain forfeiting its claims to the Oregon Territory.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
What is cotton/"King Cotton"?
Women were integral to this movement, seeking a US ban on intoxicating substances, because of the damage it caused to the home.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The rise of individualistic and evangelical spiritual beliefs led to this religious revival movement
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The proliferation of machines and factory work for new immigrants, led to the rise of this group of doctors, lawyers, and managers.
What is the middle class?
Agreement establishing parameters for the entrance of slave states and free states into the US at the 36°30' line.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This group of people in the South, still felt socially superior to Africans and African Americans and could treat them poorly.
What are poor White people?
With the Market Revolution, women, whose husbands could afford it, stayed home and were a part of this, which emphasized warm, virtuous homes and teaching the children Republican values.
What is the cult of domesticity?
A movement of landscape painters whose works supported Manifest Destiny.
What is the Hudson River School?
Nickname for the Tariff of 1828, which angered Southern planters and led to renewed enunciation (announcement) of the doctrine of nullification.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
American expanded its sphere of influence into Latin America with this 1823 doctrine.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Additional restrictions were put on African American slaves in response to slave rebellions such as this famous one led by an African American revival preacher in 1831.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
As property restrictions were dropped, women began to see this, which is the right to vote.
What is enfranchisement?
Influenced by European Romanticism, this philosophical movement emphasized self-reliance and living in nature
What is Transcendentalism?
Economic ties between the Northeast and Midwest increased with the digging of these manmade waterways.
What are canals?
Jackson signed this law, removing the Choctaws, Chicasaws, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminoles from lands east of the Mississippi River to the west.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Because of the South's heavy reliance on the slavery, its significance to the region's way of life, this became an expression for slavery
What is the "peculiar institution"?
19th century reformers believed that beyond the home, virtuous and nurturing women could serve in this role in society
The Battle of New Orleans (1815), a final act of the War of 1812, helped this man win the Election of 1828 due to his war hero status.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Politician credited with supporting protective tariffs and creating the parts of the "American system".
Who is Henry Clay?
What is the Supreme Court?
The Second Great Awakening played a direct role in inspiring this movement to eliminate slavery.
1848 women's meeting in upstate New York that focused on women obtaining the right to vote
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?