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Henry Clay's system of using federal money to improve infrastructure was inspired from America's need to modernize after the struggles of the War of 1812. In 1824 he proposed his American system to establish a national bank, levy tariffs, and improve infrastructure. Explain 2 of the 3 reasons he wished to implement this new system
Bank: Regulate American currency to sustain its value
Tariffs: Protect American businesses and encourage Americans to buy American made goods
Infrastructure: Improve transportation to make the shipment of goods faster so businesses can make more money
This future President lost the Election of 1824 after winning a plurality of electoral votes but not a majority calling it a "Corrupt Bargain." He later won the Election of 1828 and is the first Democrat President
Andrew Jackson
The policy of Indian Removal led to this forced deportation of American Indians from states like Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia leading to the deaths of thousands to Oklahoma is more popularly remembered as
Trail of Tears
The state of New York financed the construction of this canal between Lake Erie and New York City, creating a shortcut between the Great Lakes and America's largest city
Erie Canal
36'30" Line (Missouri Compromise Line)
The Monroe Doctrine warned European nations to not seek new colonies in this geographic area or else risk war with the United States
Latin America (Also acceptable South America, Caribbean, or Western Hemisphere)
The era of Andrew Jackson saw the creation of a more open political process. What new group of people was able to vote in general elections and primaries?
White men who did not own land (also acceptable is poor/middle class white men)
Jackson campaigned on eliminating the Spoils System for government appointees between 1824 and 1832. What is the Spoils System?
System in which political allies are given government jobs because of their connections rather than their qualifications (Nepotism)
John C. Calhoun, from South Carolina, detested the "Tariff of Abominations of 1828). He and other Southerners argued that states should be able to choose not to follow federal laws if they were not to their benefit. This idea is called?
Nullification
Jackson and Clay were political enemies. Jackson disagreed with Clay's system. Jackson believed the American System of using federal cash for infrastructure, creating a national bank, and levying tariffs was an overreach of federal power. If Jackson was a Democrat and from the South/West. What party would Clay have likely belonged to?
Whig (North/East)
Place the following Presidencies in chronological order: Jackson, JQA, van Buren, and Harrison
JQA ->Jackson-> van Buren-> Harrison
Nickname that glorified the role of women as caregivers who would raise the new generation of young people to be outstanding Americans during the early 1800s
Republican Motherhood
Eli Whitney's invention made it easier to produce cotton but also inadvertently led to the further Southern reliance on Slavery. This invention is called?
Cotton Gin
Cyrus McCormick's invention helped grow the boom and industrialization of farming with his new invention that helped harvest crops easily. (Hint: buying this invention would help reap the benefits of owning farmland)
Reaper
Name for the Protestant Religious Revival in the 19th century that saw the creation of the LDS (Mormon) Church as well as other spiritual movements. Most of these movements sprung up in Western New York
2nd Great Awakening
Women's rights leaders led this meeting known as the Seneca Falls Convention. They demanded social equality and used the Declaration of Independence as a model for their document known as the?
Declaration of Sentiments
Philosophical, literary, and art movement in the 19th century that focused on a connection with the natural world led by figures like Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism
This is the main "Cash Crop" of the South
Cotton
This crisis over nullification almost led to a Civil War when Jackson threatened to send troops to South Carolina to collect tariffs
Nullification crisis
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe led more people to believe in the abolitionist cause
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Tubman led this secret movement of enslaved people to "free States" or Canada
Underground Railroad
Name of the republic founded by former enslaved people in America as part of the "Back to Africa" movement. (Hint: It's in West Africa)
Liberia
Name for the often treacherous Western Trail that led people to the Oregon Country. (Also a popular old video game)
Oregon Trail
Abolitionists wished to abolish slavery while free soilers wished
To keep slavery from expanding westward and confine it only to the South
Belief that God wanted the US to occupy the entire North American Continent from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny