Indian Removal
Supreme Court Case that argued whether or not Cherokee was an independent nation.
What is Cherokee Nation v Georgia?
Jackson's first vice president
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This political party was formed in the 1830s in opposition to Andrew Jackson, primarily due to his policies regarding the national bank and his use of executive power.
What is the Whig Party?
This philosopher and writer is considered the central figure of Transcendentalism, known for his essay Self-Reliance and his book Walden, which reflects his experiment in simple living.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This informal network of whites and free blacks resulted in over 1000 escaped slaves in one year.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The result of the Black Hawks refusing to comply with the Indian Removal Act of 1830
What is the Bad Axe Massacre?
This powerful political party, founded by Jackson in the 1820s, opposed the influence of elites and championed states' rights and the common man.
What is the Democratic Party?
The Whigs were strongly critical of Andrew Jackson's economic policies, especially his actions against this institution, which they believed was vital to the nation's financial system.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
This poet, who was a close friend of Emerson and a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement, is best known for his work Leaves of Grass, which celebrates individuality and the beauty of nature.
Who is Walt Whitman?
This Massachusetts-born leader originally wrote the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" but moved on to "The Liberator" after being convicted of libeling a slaveholder. He began the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
The treaty that later caused the "Trail of Tears"
What is The Treaty of New Echota?
The candidates of the Election of 1824
Who is John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson?
The Whig Party's first major presidential candidate, who ran against Martin Van Buren in 1836, was this man, a general and war hero who had fought in the War of 1812.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
Transcendentalists believed in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and their philosophy was deeply influenced by this religious movement, which emphasized the individual's relationship with God.
What is Unitarianism?
The racial mixing and intermarriage that William Lloyd Garrison seemed to support by holding meetings of blacks and whites of both sexes.
What is amalgamation?
Cherokee who owned 100 slaves, 2 trading posts, and a gristmill
Who is James Vann?
In 1833, Jackson issued a proclamation that threatened to use military force to enforce federal tariff laws in South Carolina, which had declared these tariffs null and void. This conflict was eventually resolved by a compromise tariff negotiated by this South Carolina politician.
Who is Henry Clay?
The Whigs supported a program known as the "American System," which was championed by Henry Clay. This plan called for a national bank, protective tariffs, and federal funding for these types of infrastructure projects.
What are internal improvements (or infrastructure projects)?
This book, written by Henry David Thoreau, recounts his two-year stay at Walden Pond, where he sought to live deliberately and explore the idea of self-sufficiency.
What is Walden?
This piece of literature showed the violence inherent to slavery. It was extremely popular, selling nearly 100,000 in one year.
What is "American Slavery as it is: Testimony of a thousand witnesses"?
Two "benevolent ladies" who protested the Indian Removal ACt of 1830
Who is Catherine Beecher and Lydia Sigourney?
In 1837, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, this U.S. Supreme Court Justice, appointed by Jackson, delivered the Court’s opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), a landmark case that ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be citizens of the United States.
Who is Roger B. Taney
This 1841 event, in which President William Henry Harrison died just one month into his presidency, led to a crisis within the Whig Party. His successor, this man, opposed several key Whig policies, leading to his expulsion from the party.
Who is John Tyler?
This transcendentalist writer and abolitionist is known for his novel The Blithedale Romance, which draws from his experiences at a utopian community founded in the 1840s, and critiques both idealism and social reform movements.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This black evangelical abolitionist coined the phrase "Liberty or Death" in his "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" (1841).
Who was Henry Highland Garnet?