Presidents
This president claimed that the bank of the United States was unconstitutional and harmful to the American people, and used extensive executive power in order to abolish it.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This long-distance communication device invented by Samuel Morse used coded signals to send messages across wires.
What is the telegraph?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state in exchange for the admission of Maine as a free state. It drew the 36'30 parallel as the boundary for slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This religious revival movement occurred in the United States in the early 19th century and saw the creation of new denominations (and Mormonism), as well as the rejection of Calvinism and Puritan doctrines.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
During the second half of the 19th century, this concept held that it was the divinely ordained right of the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean and beyond.
What is Manifest Destiny?
President Jefferson enacted this treaty in 1803. Despite its benefits for territorial expansion, it was seen as controversial because it confirmed the doctrine of implied powers in the Constitution (something Jefferson opposed).
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This invention, patented in 1794 by Eli Whitney, entrenched slavery as a dominant Southern institution by revolutionizing the production of cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The name for this forced displacement of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 refers to this deadly 1,200 mile March to the new Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
What is the Trail of Tears?
This social and political movement was largely driven by religious and moral concerns about the effects of alcohol on individuals and society. Women were highly involved in the movement's organizations.
What is the Temperance movement?
This 1823 doctrine warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, as the United States would view such interference as a hostile act.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This president declared war against Britain in 1812.
Who is James Madison?
After the invention of the steam engine allowed boats to travel upstream, this canal allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to the West.
What is the Erie Canal?
This 1832 crisis, inflamed by former vice president Calhoun, nearly ended in a military conflict between the federal government and South Carolina after the state threatened secession.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This 19th century political party was an outgrowth of strong anti-immigrant and especially anti-Roman Catholic sentiment.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
This political party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson.
Who were the Whigs?
Andrew Jackson called the election of this president in 1824 a "corrupt bargain".
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This labor production system recruited young, unmarried (often Irish) women to work in textile mills.
What was the Lowell System?
In 1828, John Quincy Adams signed off on this protective tariff, controversial in the South due to its apparent preference for the Northern manufacturing industry.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
The first women’s rights convention in the United States, which issued the Declaration of Sentiments and launched the women's suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Henry Clay sponsored this economic program after a burst of nationalism following the War of 1812, which attempted to harmonize the nation's agriculture, commerce, and industry.
What is the American System?
This financial crisis during Monroe's presidency, caused by land speculation in the West, is largely regarded as a major catalyst for the end of the Era of Good Feelings.
What is the Panic of 1819?
This term refers to the industrialist transformation of the American economy caused by rapid technological advances in the early 1800s.
What is the Market Revolution?
Conflict over this Midwestern territory was a significant cause of the War of 1812.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This utopian religious communal society was founded by John Humphrey Noyes and his followers in New York. Members practiced '"free love", polygamy, and community child rearing.
What is the Oneida community?
This philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement developed as a reaction to intellectualism. It emphasized the dignity of a simple and independent life, the inherent goodness of humans, and a personal relationship with God not mediated by the church.
What is Transcendentalism?