Elections
In the Election of 1828, both sides resort to these insults with hopes of ruining each opponent's reputation.
What is Mudslinging?
These adventurers or men of the American West were often known by this term (2 words).
Mountain Men
These three states exist along the Atlantic coast and are known as the Upper South.
What are Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina?
These gatherings where people traveled great distances to hear preachers speak and to pray, sing, weep were called this.
What are revivals?
Peter Cooper designed and built this American steam-powered locomotive called this.
What is the Tom Thumb?
In 1836, Texans elected this man to be president of the Lone Star Republic.
Who is Sam Houston?
The belief that we have been chosen by God or Providence to to extend our boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Cotton Gin helped workers process cotton this much faster than by hand.
What is 50 times faster?
The desire to create a perfect society led to these types of communities.
What are Utopias?
This device used electric signals to send messages.
What is the telegraph?
In the Election of 1844, Democrats used the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" for his campaign.
Who is James Polk?
This is the term for Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home.
Who are Tejanos?
Who are Yeomen?
After visiting a mental institution, she told people of the horrible conditions she witnessed and made her life's work to change these harsh conditions.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
This American inventor invented a code using dots and dashes to represent the alphabet.
Who was Samuel Morse?
In the Election of 1836, Whigs use Harrison's war hero status to campaign with this slogan.
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too?"
Those who lived in the Gold Rush societies who feel compelled to form committees to protect themselves were called this.
Who are vigilantes?
The Upper South became a center for the sale and transport of enslaved people. It became known as this.
What is the domestic slave trade?
Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau all believed in this literary movement emphasizing nature and individual conscience.
What is Transcendentalism?
These three inventions greatly helped farmers overcome difficulties with farming land.
What are the steel-tipped plow, the mechanical reaper, and the thresher.
Andrew Jackson's successor, Van Buren, had barely taken office when this occurred. It was the result of Jackson's desire to eliminate the Bank of the U.S..
What is the Panic of 1837?
Those who believe immigration threatened the future of American born citizens.
What are nativists?
Before the American Revolution, Southern planters mainly grew these three crops.
What are rice, indigo, and tobacco?
Meaning "place of freedom," many African Americans go there to begin a new life.
What is Liberia?
Skilled workers started forming these to have more power collectively.
What are trade unions?