Economic
This 1807 law, intended to protect American ships from British and French attacks, instead crippled American merchants and was widely hated.
What was the Embargo Act?
A period of national unity and optimism following the War of 1812.
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
A foreign policy that prohibited European colonization in the Americas and declared that the U.S. would not interfere in the internal affairs of European nations.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
A movement led by Horace Mann that advocated for free public education across the United States.
What was the Common School Movement?
A particularly brutal form of slave labor in which a group of slaves worked collectively under the strict supervision of white overseers.
What was the Gang System of Labor?
In the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for...
$15 million
This conflict resulted in substantial territorial acquisitions for the United States and intensified the national debate over slavery.
What was the Mexican-American War?
The Judiciary Act of 1801 came about due to efforts to preserve Federalist influence in the judicial branch following their political defeat in the 1800 election.
What was Marbury v. Madison
A movement dedicated to the abolition of slavery and the liberation of African Americans in the United States.
What was abolitionism
The founder of the abolitionist publication The Liberator and a co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, advocating for the immediate emancipation of enslaved individuals. .
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Chartered in 1816 to stabilize the economy after the War of 1812, this national institution became a major target of Andrew Jackson’s "Bank War."
What was the Second Bank of the United States?
A line from the newspaper written by John O’Sullivan stating that it was America’s destined responsibility to expand across the continent, spreading its influence and ideals.
What is “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by…”?
A law that authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands to designated territory west of the Mississippi River
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
A Protestant religious revival movement in the United States, distinguished by impassioned sermons and a focus on individual salvation and personal spiritual renewal.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
An abolitionist group in the United States that advocated for the swift and absolute cessation of slavery.
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society?
It became known as the "Tariff of Abominations" and triggered the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina.
What was the Tariff of 1828
What rebellion resulted in the deaths of approximately 55 white people and prompted a severe backlash, including the execution of 56 enslaved people
What was Nat Turners Rebellion?
Referred to as the "Age of the Common Man," marked by the expansion of suffrage for white males.
What was Andrew Jackson's presidency known as?
A movement aimed at combating the excessive consumption of alcohol.
What is Temperance
A resolution addressing the issue of slavery in the newly admitted states of Maine and Missouri
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The Market Revolution was a direct result of advancements in transportation, industrialization, and communication technologies in the early 19th century.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
A period of national unity and optimism following the War of 1812. This 19th-century philosophical and literary movement emphasized individual intuition, the beauty of nature, and the inherent goodness of people, with leaders like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
What was Transcendentalism?
A political party in the United States that arose in response to Andrew Jackson’s policies and in opposition to the Democratic Party.
What was the Whig Party?
A convention where they discussed women’s right to vote and were also for abolition.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
The coerced migration of enslaved people within the United States, driven by the growing demand for labor in the cotton economy.
What was the International Slave Trade?