APUSH Unit IV Jeopardy

Presidential Politics

100

Party created in response to Andrew Jackson's controversial presidency

The Whig Party

200

Super temporary Whig president, rubber stamp president

William Henry Harrison

300

Presidential hopeful who promoted the American System

Henry Clay

400

Optimistic president, hoped for elimination of political parties after the War of 1812. Led the country during the Era of Good Feelings

James Monroe

500

Martin Van Buren campaigned to remove them from power in the 1820s and 1830s

Notables

Reform Movements

100

He was one of the main instigators of the Second Great Awakening, led Presbyterian ministries along the Erie Canal 

Charles Grandison Finney

200

Middle class led reform movement to curb lower class moral deficiencies. 

The Benevolent Empire

300

General term for groups like Shaker communities and Mormonism

Utopian Communities

400

This social movement was steeped in religious values of purity and was led largely by women

The Temperance Movement

500

This movement believed God was benevolent, and allowed Christians to become saintly

The Holiness Movement

Manifest Destiny

100

Leading general of the Mexican American War, 12th President of the United States

Zachary Taylor

200

President who is most likely associated with Manifest Destiny

President Polk

300

This presidential election showed the importance of Manifest Destiny in national politics

The Election of 1844

400

This was the initial draw for American settlers coming west in the early 1840s

Oregon; Oregon Territory; Oregon Fever

500

General contemporary term for Native American tribes along the Oregon Trail

The Plains Indians

North/South Divide

100

His agricultural and industrial inventions helped propel production in the US

Eli Whitney

200

Working Men's Parties and lower and middle class mothers tended to support this, while southern elite planters did not support this.

Public Education

300

Lower class southern farmers who could not afford slaves, and therefore were shunned by slave owners

Poor Freemen

400

Eli Whitney's system that allowed immense diversification of industrial production in the north, also made purchasing industrial products more affordable.

Interchangeable Parts

500

Southern society and economics appeared to robust prior to the Civil War, but further examination shows instability and long term crisis

The Paradox of Southern Prosperity

Economics, Society, Culture

100

Slave owner ideal of slaves as property

Chattel Principle

200

Benefited from semi-luxurious houses and had a sense of "moral purity"

The Middle Class

300

Social/economic system that promoted state sponsored projects that benefited the "public good"

The Commonwealth System

400

Made abolitionism a national topic of debate, also officially carved newly admitted states into "slave" and "free" states

The Missouri Compromise; The Missouri Compromise

500

William Lloyd Garrison founded this in 1833 and flooded the country with antislavery literature

The American Anti-Slavery Society