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Slavery
100
President Jackson opposed this because he feared it would cause a war with Mexico and increase sectional tension.
What is the Annexation of Texas?
100
This court case gave the Supreme Court the right for judicial review and the right to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is the Marbury v. Madison?
100
This connected small farmers and traders to larger markets through the use of newly developed infrastructure.
What is the Market Revolution?
100
This emphasized living a simple life while celebrating the truth in nature, emotion, and imagination and believed freedom was not a set of defined rights or privileges but an open-ended process of self-realization.
What is the Transcendentalism?
100
This created Liberia for putting slaves back to Africa where they could be free.
What is the American Colonization Society?
200
New England's opposition to the War of 1812 reached the point where secession from the U.S. was discussed. The return of status quo ante bellum disgraced the Federalists which disbanded in most places.
What is the Hartford Convention?
200
This displayed two major shifts in politics including the triumph of populist democratic style and the formation of the two-party system.
What is the Election of 1840?
200
An economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements and emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy.
What is the American System?
200
This series of religious revivals stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects and attracted women, blacks, and Native Americans.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
200
This abolitionist and author was a depiction of slavery life. Her novel energized the anti-slavery forces in the North and provoked anger in the South.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
This outlawed the sailing of American ships to foreign ports. This was intended to protect American ships from the impressment of foreign forces but ended up simply decimating the economies of port cities.
What is the Embargo Act?
300
This person vested rights in contract clauses, expanded the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, blocked state regulations that limited property rights, and freed American commerce from restraints.
Who is John Marshall?
300
This economic downturn was caused by loose lending practices of state banks and overspeculation. Martin Van Buren spent most of his time in office attempting to stablize and lessen the economic situation.
What is the Panic of 1837?
300
This social reform encouraged people to drink less alcohol so angered many Catholics and working men who enjoyed drinking after a hard day of work.
What is the Temperance Movement?
300
This person published an anti-slavery newspaper "The Liberator" and called for an immediate emancipation of all slaves.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
This warned European powers to refrain from seeing any new territories in the Americas; however, America highly lacked the power to back up this, which was actually enforced by the British who sought unrestricted access to Latin American market.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
This was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification which declared that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore are null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
400
This was a natural post-war depression caused by overproduction and the reduced demand for goods after the war; however, it was generally blamed on the National Bank.
What is the Panic of 1819?
400
Women gathered together at this and discussed about thier rights. Elizabeth Cady Staton read the Declaration of Sentiment listing the discriminations against women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
A group of slaves in Virginia made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families.
What is the Nat Turner Revolt?
500
This restored the borders and showed growing power of the new nation but failed to address any of injustice.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
500
This brought strength to the Democratic Party and marked the coming of Jacksonian Democracy from the First Party System to the Second Party System.
What is the Election of 1828?
500
This was a battle between Andrew Jackson and the congressional supporters of the bank of the United States over the issue of the bank's renewal. Jackson vetoed the bank bill and argued that the bank favored moneyed interests at the expense of western farmers.
What is the Bank War?
500
This was an ideal community created by transcendentalists and other radical reformers. The transcendentalists were frequent visitors, but the economic failure led to their downfall.
What is the Brook Farm?
500
This black abolitionist escaped from slavery and wrote a narrative of his own life.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
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