Age of Jefferson 1800-1816
This purchase from France in 1803 doubled the size of the US and expanded Jefferson's vision of an agrarian republic.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
19th Century transformation in America where the economy shifted from local farming to a national interconnected system driven by new technology, factories, and transportation such as canals and railroads to connect distant communities.
What was the Market Revolution?
This group of people was native-born Americans who strongly favored established inhabitants over immigrants, fearing new arrivals of certain ethnic groups.
Who were the Nativists?
What was the Corrupt Bargain?
What did "Uncle Tom's Cabin", the Liberator, and Fredrick Douglass do for this movement?
A federal law passed in 1820 that addressed growing sectional conflict over the expansion of slavery, maintaining a balance between free and slave states in the Senate.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Working slowly, breaking tools, feigning illness, organizing revolts, and maintaining strong cultural traditions were all ways this group of people resisted.
How did African Americans resist slavery?
This president was strongly opposed to the Bank of the United States, believing it had too much power and that Congress lacked constitutional authority to create it.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
These are three causes of the War of 1812.
This "Great Chief Justice" was known for transforming the Supreme Court by establishing Judicial review: the power to declare laws unconstitutional.
Who was John Marshall?
What was a frontier?
This group (1), led by Andrew Jackson, favored limited federal power and strong states' rights, whereas this group (2), led by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, advocated for a strong federal government, especially in economic matters.
What were the differences between the Democrats (1) and the Whigs (2)?
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
The Nonintercourse Act of 1809 repealed these acts created by Jefferson, which allowed trade with all nations except Britain/France.
What were the Embargo Acts of 1807?
This economic plan to strengthen the U.S economy and foster national unity after the War of 1812 centered on three key policies: a protective tariff, a national bank, and federal funding for internal improvements.
What was Henry Clay's American System?
Who was the "Know-Nothing Party"? (American Party)
The showdown between South Carolina and the U.S. Federal government over protective tariffs, arguing that they benefited the North's economy yet harmed the South's.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
This Protestant religious revival in the U.S. emphasized personal salvation, moral reform, and democratic faith, leading to massive church growth and inspiring major social movements such as abolition, temperance, and women's rights through camp meetings.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
A series of secret meetings in Connecticut, where New England Federalists who opposed the War of 1812 discussed their grievances and demanded constitutional change.
What was the Hartford Convention?
U.S. foreign policy declared America and the Western Hemisphere off limits to future European colonization and warned that any European influence would be seen as a hostile attack.
This region's economy began to boom financially after the Market Revolution, shifting labor from homes to central mills, leading to urbanization and the emergence of a new middle/working class, while increasing demand for slave-grown cotton.
What is the North, and how was it benefited?
This was a case concerning the Indian Removal Acts, in which Natives sought an injunction from the Supreme Court to prevent the state from enforcing a series of laws that stripped them of their native land, since they were a domestic dependent nation. This eventually led to Worcester v. Georgia.
What was the case of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
Ralph W. Emerson and Henry D. Thoreau were both abolitionists and believers in THIS idea of spiritual thinking rather than scientific.
What is transcendentalism?