Age of Reform
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic
Republican Motherhood
This secret network of whites and free blacks helped lead hundreds to freedom.
Underground Railroad
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Louisiana Purchase
United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
364 mile man-made waterway connecting the Hudson River with the Great Lakes
Eerie Canal
Women largely led this anti-alcohol movement in the mid 1800s.
Temperance Movement/American Temperance Society
This man won his freedom and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement, including writing an autobiography exposing the institution of slavery.
Frederick Douglas
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
Trail of Tears
Jackson was known for appointing common men who helped him get elected, also known as this system.
Spoils System
Eli Whitney invented this and had these effects
Cotton Gin; Caused a greater demand for slavery as the invention made the cotton industry more efficient, making cotton a more profitable crop.
A religious movement that encouraged people to improve their lives which led to the start of various Reform Movements.
Second Great Awakening
An 1857 Supreme Court Case that said a slave owner could take their slaves with them anywhere in the Union.
Dred Scot v. Sanford
An 1820 compromise that aimed to keep the number of slave and free states equal.
Missouri Compromise
This outlawed trade with all foreign countries and was another example of Jefferson and the Democrat-Republicans switching their Strict Interpretation of the Constitution to Broad.
Embargo Act
Financial institution chartered in 1790. Hamilton argued for it for these reasons.
Bank of America; It would provide stability to the American Economy by providing loans to merchants, handling government funds, and issuing bills of credit.
These two women organized the Seneca Falls Convention after their voice was suppressed at an anti-slavery convention in England
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1831 slave rebellion in Virginia that killed between 55 and 65 people. This led to violent retribution from Southern whites who feared future slave uprisings.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
A compromise that made California a free state, left open the potential for slavery in the Southwest Territories, enforced the fugitive slave act, and banned slave trading in Washington DC.
Compromise of 1850
A nativist political party hostile to immigration. It expressed xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment
Know-Nothing Party
The Bank of the United States, as well as state and private banks, began recalling loans, demanding immediate payment caused this and had these effects.
Panic of 1819; Unemployment mounted, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and agricultural prices fell by half. Investment in western lands collapsed.
The person who fought to improve the conditions for the mentally ill and insane living in asylums and hospitals.
Dorothea Dix
William Lloyd Garrison started this anti-slavery weekly publication.
The Liberator
As a result of the Compromise of 1820 each of these states was admitted into the Union. Which was free and which was a slave state?
Missouri (Slave) and Maine (Free)
A conflict between South Carolina and the Federal Government in regard to a state's obligation to follow federal laws (1832-1833)
Nullification Crisis
Most notable opponent of the Second Bank of the United States.
Andrew Jackson