Miscellaneous 1800-1828
Thomas Jefferson purchased this land from Napoleon, and hired these people to lead the Corps of Discovery.
What is the Louisiana Territory? Who are Lewis and Clark?
The Supreme Court rules in Worcester vs Georgia that this Act of Andrew Jackson's is unconstitutional and he goes "What're you going to do about it?"
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This case ruled The Judiciary Act (Adams' Midnight Judges) unconstitutional and created Judicial Review.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
This compromise claimed that everything North of the 39 30 line except its namesake was free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name 3 things Evangelical Protestants (a new branch of Christianity formed during the Second Great Awakening) fought for.
What is abolition, a better & free education system, reformed prison system, temperance, and women's rights.
Summarize the Monroe Doctrine.
It told Europe to stop messing around in the Americas.
South Carolina nullifies this tariff and eventually secedes because of it, causing Jackson & Calhoun to break.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
This case Constitutionalized the National Bank by ruling against Maryland taxing it.
What is McCulloch vs. Maryland?
This was the idea that States should vote on whether to be slave or free.
What is popular sovereignty?
West New York was called this because of the number of sermonizers and new sects that formed there.
What is The Burned Over District?
Name 2 of the 3 Acts that the US used to try to stop Britain and France from attacking their merchants during the war. Double points for all 3.
What are the Embargo Act, the Non-Intercourse Act, and Macon's Bill No. 2?
Violence against immigrants grows in the 1840s, led by this group of people in this political party. (Need both the group of people and the party)
What are the nativists and the Know-Nothing Party?
This case defined colleges as private contracts that states can't interfere in, as outlined in the Constitution.
What is Dartmouth College vs. Woodward?
Describe this Act that was used to get Stephen Douglas political power to build a railway through Chicago and had violent repercussions.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act which allowed popular sovereignty in those states?
This paper by Paine kicked off the Second Great Awakening and the Age of Reform that followed.
What is The Age of Reason?
There were three major deals/treaties made with European time powers during this time period. Name 2 of them or all three for double points. They fixed issues with borders with Russia, borders with British Canada & Oregon, and the War of 1812.
What is the Anglo-American Convention, the Russo-American Treaty, and the Treaty of Ghent?
Summarize the National Bank bs that went on.
Clay & Webster made the National Bank a reelection issue for Jackson, who killed it. After he killed it, various solutions that didn't work at all were put in place, including pet banks whose money was worthless and Buren's divorce bill, and there was a huge economic crisis.
This case solidified the Supreme Court's right to review appeals and reverse the rulings of lower courts, even though they didn't reverse this ruling.
What is Cohens vs. Virginia?
This resolution made it so Congress had to ignore anti-slavery appeals, and it was eventually overturned by John Q. Adams' work in the House.
What is the Gag Resolution?
This preacher spread the Second Great Awakening through huge camp meetings that lasted for days.
Who is Finney?
10 important inventions were made in or brought to the US during this time period, name 5 or name 10 for double points.
What are the cotton gin, the spinning machine, interchangeable parts, the assembly line, the sewing machine, the telegraph, the steel plow, McCormack's mechanical reaper, railroads, and the steamboat?
Harrison is elected in 1840 on the basis of hard cider and log cabins, marking the point of no return for having to appeal to common people to get elected, but he dies one month into term and this VP replaces him as a president without a party.
Who is Tyler?
This case firmly placed the federal government over State governments in cases of interstate travel.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden?
Name the 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850.
1. Fugitive Slave Act - Northerners had to turn in runaway slaves
2. Stopped the spread of slavery to new territories
3. Stopped the slave trade in Washington D.C.
4. Established boundaries between New Mexico & Texas
Name the 3 things people in wilderness utopias practiced.
What are free love (polygamy), birth control, and eugenics?