Key People
He was the first president from the West and represented the common man.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
In 1803, this treaty nearly doubled the size of the United States, acquiring land from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This evangelical movement, founded in 1826, called for total abstinence from alcohol.
What is the American Temperance Movement?
This was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the U.S., which began in 1819.
What is the Panic of 1819?
This 350-mile-long waterway, completed in 1825, linked Albany to Buffalo, revolutionizing trade in New York State.
What is the Erie Canal?
She was a key figure in the women’s rights movement, advocating for suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This 1814 event saw New England Federalists meeting to discuss their grievances regarding the War of 1812 and the increasing power of the federal government.
What is the Hartford Convention?
This religious revival, starting in 1801, led to the spread of Protestant ideals and social reforms, including abolition and women's rights.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This economic collapse, caused by Andrew Jackson’s fiscal policies, led to a depression in the U.S. starting in 1837.
What is the Panic of 1837?
This invention, created by Eli Whitney in 1793, revolutionized cotton farming by making it easier to separate cotton fibers from seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
This American inventor revolutionized the cotton industry with his invention of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This was a significant slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia that led to stricter slave codes in the South.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This political party, founded in the 1820s, opposed the National Bank and supported the rights of states.
What is the Democratic Party?
This term refers to the practice of forcibly recruiting American sailors into the British navy during the early 1800s.
What is Impressment?
This invention and its use in transportation, along with trains and improved roads, helped fuel the U.S. Transportation Revolution.
What is the steamboat?
This American activist lobbied for better treatment of the mentally ill and created the first generation of American mental asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This act, passed in 1828, involved a forced relocation of Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River, leading to the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This system, proposed by Henry Clay, aimed to strengthen the national economy through tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank.
What is the American System?
This was a political conflict in which President Jackson attempted to destroy the Second Bank of the United States.
What is the Bank War?
This political system pioneered by Henry Clay aimed at promoting industrial growth and building infrastructure.
What is the American System?
This abolitionist founded the anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review, giving courts the power to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The policy announced in 1823 that warned European nations against further colonization or interference in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This term refers to the system where Andrew Jackson appointed his supporters to government positions, replacing many existing workers.
What is the Spoils System?
This practice was introduced to help improve the efficiency of the economy by connecting farmers, manufacturers, and markets through internal improvements like roads, canals, and railroads.
What is the Market Revolution?