Political
What are the Whigs?
A Bank system that was a key component of the American System plan. It became a key point in the Bank War, which was primarily between Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson. The Whig party supported this.
What is the Second National Bank?
Advocation for this type of education started to spread throughout America. Some figures such as Horace Mann were leaders in this movement.
What is Public Education?
A leader on the Underground Railroad who famously "never lost a passenger," and went on to become a winning general on the North side in the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Implemented by Henry Clay's, a plan to shield American Industries from foreign competition and build infrastructure, especially after the War of 1812. It faced lots of backlash.
What is Henry Clay's American System?
The North, South, West and East all started to form their own, from the art and food they make to the music they listen to.
What is Regional Identities?
A forced march of approximately 100,000 Native Americans from their southeastern homelands to Oklahoma, a journey where thousands perished.
What is the Trail of Tears?
What is nationalism?
A term for the regions becoming economically reliant on each other. The South produced cotton, the North processed it, the Midwest fed the East, etc.
What is interdependence?
A movement that sought to reduce or ban alcohol consumption.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The document based on the Declaration of Independence that was written in order to express grievances toward unfair laws, co-written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823?
An innovation that made cotton production way more profitable and more efficient, as well as rising the global demand for the product.
What is the Cotton Gin?
A movement of religious revivals that swept through the US> It encouraged the belief that individuals had the right to choose their own spiritual destiny.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
A "radical" American abolitionist group who advocated for the rights of enslaves peoples in America through public boycotts, speeches, and papers.
What is the Anti-American Slavery Society (AASS)?
A political confrontation between South Carolina and the Federal Government. South Carolina was led by John C. Calhoun, and threatened that they would secede if tariffs were enforced.
What is the Nullfication Crisis?
A revolution that led to the invention of the cotton gin as well as other innovations. It created a shift to factory work and US Industries. Let to improved transportation with the construction of canals and roads.
What is the Market Revolution?
A group of landscape painters who created nationalism through their art of the American wilderness.
What is the Hudson River School?
An idea that promoted theavy focus on self-reliance and personal individualism. Included thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, who advocated for this cause.
What is transcendentalism?