The Market Revolution
This invention by Eli Whitney transformed Southern agriculture by efficiently separating seeds from fibers.
This term describes Andrew Jackson's practice of rewarding political supporters with public office.
The Spoils System
This movement sought to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States.
Temperance Movement
This term describes the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
This religious revival movement swept through the United States in the early 19th century.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This 1803 case established the principle of judicial review.
Marbury v Madison
These canals, such as the Erie Canal, revolutionized transportation in the early 19th century.
Artificial Waterways
Jackson's opposition to this institution led to its eventual demise in 1836.
The Second Bank of the United States
Horace Mann is associated with reforms in this area of American society.
Public Education
This 1803 land acquisition doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
This religious community founded by Joseph Smith practiced polygamy and settled in Utah.
The Mormons
This case reinforced federal authority over interstate commerce.
Gibbons v Ogden
This concept describes the economic system characterized by industrial growth and wage labor.
Market Economy
This law, passed in 1830, authorized the forced relocation of Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
The Indian Removal Act
This abolitionist published The Liberator, a prominent antislavery newspaper.
William Lloyd Garrison
This expedition explored the newly purchased western territories of the U.S.
Lewis and Clark Expedition
This transcendentalist wrote Walden and advocated for civil disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau
This case upheld the constitutionality of the Second Bank of the United States.
McCulloch v Maryland
This agreement standardized labor conditions and wages for workers in the Lowell textile mills.
Lowell System
This 1832 event involved South Carolina's refusal to enforce federal tariffs.
The Nullification Crisis
This 1848 convention marked the beginning of the organized women’s rights movement in the U.S.
Seneca Falls Convention
This treaty ended the War of 1812 and restored prewar boundaries.
Treaty of Ghent
This utopian community in Indiana was founded on principles of shared property.
New Harmony
This ruling declared the Cherokee Nation to be a "domestic dependent nation."
This invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication in the 1840s.
The Telegraph
ackson's enemies gave him this nickname for his perceived abuse of executive power.
King Andrew
This former slave and abolitionist leader published his autobiography in 1845.
Frederick Douglass
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in 1820.
Missouri Compromise
This Hudson River School artist painted landscapes that celebrated the American wilderness.
Thomas Cole
This case ruled that the state of Georgia could not impose its laws on Cherokee territory.
Worcester v Georgia