Election of 1824
This event, following the War of 1812, led to the disappearance of the Federalist Party and the splintering of the Republican Party.
What is the end of the "Era of Good Feelings"?
This major financial institution, founded in 1816, was at the center of the conflict during Jackson’s presidency, with Jackson opposing its renewal.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the forced relocation of Native American tribes to this region, which is now part of Oklahoma and Kansas.
What is the Indian Territory?
This Massachusetts-born printer founded The Liberator in 1831, a powerful anti-slavery newspaper that advocated for the immediate abolition of slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This religious group of women founded the Female Moral Reform Society in 1834 to fight against prostitution and protect women from moral corruption.
What is the New York middle-class women?
This candidate in the 1824 election was the son of former president John Adams and served as Secretary of State under President Monroe.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
The Second Bank of the United States was founded in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
This Cherokee leader invented a written system for the Cherokee language, helping to promote literacy among his people.
Who is Sequoyah?
This pamphlet, written by William Lloyd Garrison and other religious abolitionists in 1833, formed the basis of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
What is The Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition pamphlet?
This woman, a prominent leader in the moral reform movement, was elected president of the Female Moral Reform Society in 1834.
Who is Lydia Finney?
This candidate, known for his dynamic personality and his role as Speaker of the House, was from Kentucky and was one of the five main contenders in the 1824 election.
Who is Henry Clay?
This man was the president of the Second Bank of the United States and was criticized for his concentration of power.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
The Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia (1832) ruled in favor of this Native American group, affirming their right to self-governance and territorial boundaries.
Who are the Cherokees?
This pair of sisters, both former South Carolina plantation owners, became prominent abolitionists and moved to Philadelphia, where they campaigned against slavery.
Who are Angelina and Sarah Grimké?
This woman, after learning that mentally ill women were being jailed with male criminals, led a national movement to establish state asylums for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
These two statesmen, who were veterans of President James Monroe’s cabinet, also campaigned in the 1824 election. One was Secretary of War, and the other was Secretary of the Treasury.
Who are John C. Calhoun and William H. Crawford?
In 1832, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster pushed for this action, hoping to provoke Jackson into a political miscalculation.
What is seeking an early rechartering of the Second Bank?
This brutal 1832 event, part of the conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans, resulted in the massacre of 850 Sauk and Fox warriors.
What is the Bad Axe Massacre?
The American Slavery as It Is (1839) book, written by Theodore Weld and the Grimké sisters, used this method to expose the brutal realities of slavery.
What is using firsthand testimony and newspaper reports?
This woman’s work in the 1830s and 1840s helped expand public education, particularly for women, and she argued that women were better suited than men to teach the young.
Who is Catharine Beecher?
This democratic reform, implemented before the 1824 election, required most states to choose their electors through a popular vote, rather than by a vote of the state legislature.
What is the introduction of popular elections for electors?
Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank in 1832, arguing it was unconstitutional and dangerous to these groups.
Who are farmers, mechanics, and laborers?
This term refers to the forced relocation of the Cherokee people in 1838, during which approximately 3,000 died of starvation, disease, and exposure.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This system, led by freed blacks and white abolitionists, helped slaves escape to the North, with figures like Harriet Tubman making repeated dangerous trips to lead slaves to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
In 1848, women’s rights activists met in this New York town to issue a historic call for women's suffrage and equality in the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is Seneca Falls?