Immigrant Masses & Nativism
This political movement centered on hostility toward immigrants and Catholics.
Nativism
The newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831.
What is The Liberator?
This future president won the popular vote but lost the election.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
John Q. Adams strongly supported this overall economic plan favored by Henry Clay.
What is the American System?
Jackson claimed to represent the interests of this group of Americans.
What are "common men"?
Many nativists pushed for a longer wait time before immigrants could gain this civic right.
What is citizenship/the right to vote?
This escaped enslaved man became a major abolitionist speaker and wrote multiple autobiographies.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Four major candidates ran in 1824; name the “favorite son” from Kentucky.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Adams pushed for federal funding for these two major types of infrastructure projects.
What are roads and canals?
Jackson’s opponents used this term for the group of unofficial advisors he consulted.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
The influx of these two immigrant groups in the 1840s sparked the strongest anti-immigrant backlash.
Who were the Irish and the Germans?
This network of secret routes helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Because no candidate won a majority, the election was decided by this body.
What is the House of Representatives?
Adams’ presidency struggled largely because of constant political attacks from supporters of this rival.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Jackson’s use of presidential power to reject congressional bills earned him this animal-themed nickname.
What is "King Andrew I"?
This secretive political party of the 1850s became the political face of nativism.
Who were the American Party?
This 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia intensified Southern fears of abolitionist influence.
What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
Jackson supporters called the outcome of the 1824 election this infamous phrase.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
John Quincy Adams supported a strong national government, which made him unpopular with this rising political ideology.
What is Jacksonian democracy?
This federal law led to the forced relocation of Native American tribes.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Economic resentment toward immigrants often centered on competition for this type of work.
What are low-wage jobs?
Abolitionists split over whether to use moral suasion or participate in this large national institution to end slavery.
What is the political system?
John Quincy Adams allegedly secured Clay’s support by offering him this powerful position.
What is Secretary of State?
Adams proposed a national university and an astronomical observatory, reflecting his deep belief in this Enlightenment ideal.
What is scientific advancement?
Jackson destroyed this major institution because he saw it as a tool of the elite.
What is the Second Bank of the US?