Reform and Culture
Western New York during the Second Great Awakening
What is The burnt over district
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The act that shut down all American foreign trading and transportation of goods.
What was the Embargo Act of 1807?
The Election of 1824 according to Jackson was...
What was the Corrupt Bargain of 1824?
A British navy force that enforced the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
What was the West Africa Squadron?
Ain't I a women?
What is Sojourner Truth?
A revolution that caused this state to be annexed into the U.S. in 1845 from Mexico.
What is the Texas Revolution?
Having strict obligations and following the rules of the Constitution word by word.
What is strict-constructionism?
Andrew Jackson's system of placing his supporters in office positions.
What is the Spoils System?
Eli Whitney's invention that caused an upsoar of slavery in the South.
What was the cotton gin?
The law in Maine which prohibited the manufacturing and sale of alchohol in 1851
What is the Maine Law of 1851
The politician who took over the perished President Harrison and was expelled from his own party.
Who is John Tyler?
People along the North African coast who would seize American merchant ships and later on a war.
Who were the Barbary Pirates?
The Supreme Court Case in 1832 between a state and Indians over territory settlement.
What was Worchester v. Georgia?
The laws preventing slavery to be talked about in Congress.
What were the gag resolutions?
The depiction of a perfect world and society with no problems, equality for all citizens, and overall safety.
What is a utopian society?
Polk's battle cry for all of Oregon territory from Britain
What is fifty-four forty or fight?
The tactics of the British seizing American ships and enslaving sailors, causing the War of 1812.
What is impressment?
The main cause of the Nullification Crisis with South Carolina and John C. Calhoun.
What were the Tariff Abominations?
The slave rebellion in Virginia that resulted in the death of 51 whites.
What was Nat Turner's Rebellion?
The belief in which nature is over society, experience over knowledge, society is corrupt, and be independent
What is transcendentalism?
U.S. general who reached Mexico City and ended the Mexico-American war in leading the final battle.
Who is Winfield Scott?
The revolution that caused Napoleon to sell Louisiana territory to the U.S.
What was the Haitian revolution?
The right for the president to use the military to collect tariff duties.
What was the force bill?
The capital of Liberia that served as a haven for freed slaves from America.
What was Monrovia?