Policies/Government
Important People
Events
Vocabulary
Politics
100
This ended the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
100
Key Whig leader who opposed Jacksonian democracy and advocated for modernization, banking, and industry.
Who is Daniel Webster?
100
Term describing when millions of Irish immigrated to the U.S. due to the potato famine.
What is the Black Forties?
100
transformed a subsistence economy of scattered farms and tiny workshops into a national network of industry and commerce.
What is the Market Revolution?
100
The purpose of this was to reward political supporters with jobs.
What is the Spoils System?
200
Negotiated by Henry Clay, it kept the balance of slave and free states equal.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Senator from South Carolina who led the nullification crisis.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
Called "Clinton's Ditch", this increased transportation in the Great Lakes area.
What is the Erie Canal?
200
Called the nation's Poet Laureate of Democracy.
Who is Walt Whitman?
200
Political party during the time of John Q. Adams that opposed Jacksonian Democrats.
What is the National Republican Party?
300
political parties' congressional delegations that met informally to nominate the presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
What is King Caucus?
300
Blamed for the Panic of 1837 when the economy entered the worst depression in its history to that point.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
300
Used as a rallying cry/motivator in the war for Texas independence.
What is the Alamo?
300
refers to the western and central areas in New York in the early 1800s where religious revivals /movements took place.
What is a Burned over District?
300
strongly opposed immigrants and Catholics
What is the "Know Nothing Party"?
400
policy that would create a strong banking system to provide easy credit, a protective tariff, and improvements to transportation.
What is the American System?
400
members of a literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early 1800s.
Who were the Transcendentalists?
400
Drawn up in 1848 to demand rights for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
400
a view about women int he 1800s in which it was believed a woman's place was in the home.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
400
Known as the "Great Compromiser", ran for president and lost three times.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
authored by Calhoun to denounce the Tariff of 1828.
What is Exposition and Protest?
500
published an abolitionist paper called the Liberator
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
The Supreme Court rulings during the Marshall Court limited the extent of this.
What is states' rights?
500
Required payment for government land to be paid in silver or gold.
What is Specie Circular?
500
political party central to the Second Party system from early 1830s to mid-1850s.
What is the Whig Party?
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