Modern Democracy
What were the two political parties in the early 1800s?
Federalist Party and the Dem-Republicans.
The idealization of visions of a perfect society is called?
Utopian Societies.
What does the phrase 'King Cotton' mean and to whom?
Term used by southern authors and orators to defend the souths continuation of slavery in which it relies on for cash crops.
What happen during the shift from subsistence farming?
More men and women worked in factories built near water (Lowell, Massachusetts) to produce goods for distant markets.
Who conceived and directed the convention at Seneca Falls?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Acquisition of territory purchased from France in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson.
The Louisiana Purchase.
What movement occurred in the 1830s that encouraged individuals to have communication with God and Nature?
Transcendentalism.
Who favored the "American System" and why?
Henry Clay a Whig, because it was to strengthen the economy of the United States.
Forced removal of thousands of Native Americans from the Five Most Civilized Tribes at the hands of President Andrew Jackson from their homelands, and marched over 1,200 miles where many migrants died from disease, famine, weather, and warfare. All so the U.S. can expand is known as?
The Trail of Tears.
Superintendent of Army Nurses during the Civil War, _____ was also an advocate for mentally ill patients and reformed the way mentally ill patients were being treated.
Dorothea Dix.
How is McCulloch V. Maryland case important to understanding the changing nature of American Federalism?
The state of Maryland taxed the bank that was created by the national government. Since the state itself did not create the National Bank, it impose taxes on it. James McCulloch refused to pay these taxes and Maryland filed a law suit. If the state taxes the Bank it was aloud the state to tax other things and then the bank would lose funds to continue to run. This is reserved by the supremacy clause and implied powers given to the state that the congress did have power to have a national bank and Maryland didn't have the power to tax it.
What impact if any did Henry David Thoreau have?
He wrote series of essays one being his most influential 'Civil Disobedience,' after refusing to be in jail for not paying taxes. His work, reflected how he deeply felt about political views, opposing slavery, the Mexican-American war, and being a transcendentalist.
What was the gag order passed by the house of representatives in 1836?
It prohibited the introduction of abolitionist bills in the house of representatives in response to the demand of ending slavery.
What was the impact of the Monroe Doctrine?
Warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere and to separate the influences it had on the United States.
Creator of the Whigs political party and anti Andrew Jackson, ____ favored a strong federal government, internal improvements, tariffs, and the Bank of The United States.
Henry Clay.
How did the protective tariffs of 1816 and 1824 affect the north vs the south?
It benefitted the north, because they were more industrialized and it reduced foreign competition on American goods. While the south was not benefitted and argued it didn't benefit them since they have slaves and weren't industrialized like the north. The south felt that it made them pay more on goods from other countries.
What two organizations worked together in an attempt to improve society to individual behavior?
Abolitionist movement and American Temperance society.
Why did states make it illegal for slave owners to manumit their slaves?
Because of states gradually emancipating slaves which increased the number of free African Americans in the north and south.
What was the goal of the Missouri Compromise in 1820?
Preserve balance between slave and free states. Allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state.
The same year of Nat Turners rebellion, _____ came out with 'The Liberator,' which called for the immediate and uncompensated end to slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison.
How did regional political and economic loyalties overshadow national concerns? Give an example.
Nullification Crisis of 1833 where South Carolina and other southerns opposed tariffs of 1828 and 1832. South Carolina nullified the tariffs and threatened to secede if they were collected by force.
The rise of democratic and individualistic beliefs and changes to society caused by the market revolution, along with greater social and geographic mobility contributed to what?
The Second Great Awakening.
How did Uncle Tom's novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nat Turners rebellion coincide?
Nat Turner was a slave who started a rebellion of black slaves in which they killed between 55-65 white slave owners starting with Turners. Uncle Tom's novel showed the realities of slavery and slaves being treated unfairly. Together, they destroyed the myth that slaves were happy in slavery and ignorant to rebel.
What was the impact of the development of infrastructure?
Connected the north and Midwest more closely than the south through roads, canals, and railroads paid by the state and local governments.
An American ornithologist who became known to studying bird prints.
John James Audubon.