Expansion/ Foreign Policy
This 1803 land deal nearly doubled the size of the United States and was purchased from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This president was known for presenting himself as a champion of the “common man.”
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This invention made it much faster to separate cotton fibers from their seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while establishing a geographic line for slavery in the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This movement sought to end slavery.
What is abolition?
This 1823 policy warned European nations against further colonization or interference in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Jackson's critics called him “King Andrew” because they believed he used presidential power too aggressively, including his use of this power against Congress.
What is veto power?
The growth of factories, transportation, communication, and commercial agriculture during the early 1800s is known as this.
What is the Market Revolution?
(Looking for a political party) These Americans opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories, even though many did not necessarily call for immediate abolition everywhere.
What are Free-Soilers?
This formerly enslaved abolitionist became a famous writer, speaker, and advocate for equality.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent helped justify this war against Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Jacksonian Democracy expanded political participation for many white men, but it also occurred alongside the removal of this group from their southeastern lands.
Who are Native Americans?
These factories became especially important in New England and used machinery to turn cotton into cloth.
What are Textile Mills?
This 1850 law required the return of escaped enslaved people and angered many Northerners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Written in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention, this document demanded greater rights for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
One major effect of the Mexican-American War was that the United States gained a huge amount of land, increasing arguments over this issue.
What is the expansion of slavery?
During the Jacksonian era, voting rights expanded primarily for this group, while women, most Black Americans, and Native Americans remained excluded from political participation.
Who are white men over the age of 21?
The Market Revolution encouraged different regions to specialize economically. For example, the South focused heavily on cotton while the Northeast increasingly focused on manufacturing.
What is regional specialization?
The Compromise of 1850 attempted to reduce conflict between North and South by making concessions to both sides. This approach can be described as trying to do what to the South?
What is to appease/accommodate the South?
The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled partly on this famous founding document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Louisiana Purchase, Mexican Cession, and other acquisitions increased the size of the nation but also intensified this growing conflict between regions.
What is sectionalism?
Andrew Jackson passed this act that triggered the Trail of Tears and the forced removal of Native Americans.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This system was created by Henry Clay that placed protective tariffs on foreign goods and created a National Bank. The South felt it was unfair.
What is the American System?
Congress attempted to settle the slavery question through several compromises, but each temporary solution ultimately failed to resolve this larger problem.
What is sectionalism?
This is the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about the horrors of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?