Andrew Jackson
Upon taking office, Jackson fired hundreds of government employees, replacing them with Democrats loyal to him, a practice known as this:
What is the Spoils System?
This group was responsible for creating the U.S. Constitution, because they wanted a strong national government.
Who were/are the Federalists?
This was the primary issue that drove sectionalist politics from the 1830s to the 1860s.
What is slavery?
This device led to a communications revolution, because for the first time people could instantly communicate over long distances.
What is the telegraph / telegraph machine?
This reform movement demanded the immediate and unconditional end of slavery.
What are the abolitionists?
When the Senate would not give Jackson a new cabinet, he created this group, which had no official power, but helped Jackson run the government.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
This established a bi-cameral Congress, each with different powers in order to please both big and small states.
What is the Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise?
This Compromise established that for every free state added to the Union, a slave state would be added and vice versa.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This refers to the rise of the mass-movement of goods and people, mostly between the industrial northeast and the west.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
This movement urged for the end of alcohol consumption in the United States.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Jackson signed this law, which allowed him to use the army to make states follow Federal law, including making South Carolina pay its taxes.
What is the Force Act?
This clause in the Constitution required all states to return "escaped servants" but had no requirements as to how, or when they were returned, or who would return them.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
This event vastly expanded the population of California, causing it to seek to enter the Union as a gigantic free state.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This idea from the Industrial Revolution promoted the notion that women and men were naturally destined to occupy separate spheres of life- home and work.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This Revolution Era argument said that women needed to right to vote, and access to education so that they could teach the next generation to be good citizens.
What is Republican Motherhood? / What is the Republican Motherhood Argument?
This idea, which promoted white male supremacy over all of North America, was used by Jackson as a reason for Indian Removal.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Among this groups objections were that the Constitution had no guarantee of rights, created a potential dictator in the President, and made no mention of God.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This northern party formed to protect business interests. It wanted high tariffs, more trains and canals and a national bank.
What is the Whig Party? / Who are the Whigs?
This is an economic system based around individuals acting as producers and consumers, make decisions based on their own best interest.
What is Capitalism?
This is an organization that allows workers to bargain collectively for better pay and benefits.
What is a labor union?
This massive economic crisis was a direct result of Jackson's veto and destruction of the 2nd National Bank.
What is the Panic of 1834?
What is the Electoral College?
This Eli Whitney invention revitalized slavery and moved it into the deep south.
What is the Cotton Engine?
This War led to the capture of the American Southwest from Texas to California, in order to make more cotton plantations to supply Northern factories.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This idea argues that states can refuse to enforce federal laws that they consider to be unconstitutional.
What is nullification?