Westward Expansion
Jacksonian America
The First Industrial Revolution/Northern and Southern Economies
The Civil War
Reconstruction
100
The belief that arose in the 1840's that God predestined America to expand west. This led many pioneers to make perilous journeys west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828 during a time when this policy of pride for one's region was growing.
What is sectionalism?
100
The Industrial Revolution occurred during the first half of the 1800's and it was a time of vast changes in technology, transportation, and production. It was also a time when buying and selling goods increased so it was also known as this...
What is the Market Revolution?
100
The Second Great Awakening spread religions, mainly Christianity and Unitarianism. This man was a Unitarian preacher who developed Transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
100
Which reconstruction plan created the Civil Rights Act, the Freedmen's Bureau Act, the 14th Amendment, and the Reconstruction Act in 1866 and 1867?
What is the Congress Plan?
200
This famous journey was a wagon trail from Independence, Missouri to a new territory in the northwest. Many Mormons also used this path to travel to Salt Lake City.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
Because his philosophy was to grant more political power to the common people, Andrew Jackson developed this to give his friends and family positions in government administration.
What is the Spoils System/ Jacksonian Democracy?
200
The first became more numerous and became the number one mode of transportation in 1830, the second was this vehicle invented by Robert Fulton in 1830.
What are railroads and steamboats?
200
The Abolitionist movement arose in the 1820's and Frederick Douglass was one of the most famous abolitionists. This movement was founded by this man.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
200
This republican, Civil War hero won the 1868 presidential election with 500,000 African American votes.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
After Mexico broke off from Spain in 1821 and claimed Texas, the American Stephen Austin established a colony in Texas. Mexico outlawed slavery in 1829 but the American colony still used slaves, this was one cause of conflict between them. At this mission, Mexican president Santa Anna sent troops to kill all 187 Americans in San Antonio.
What is the Alamo?
300
In 1830, President Jackson passed this law to force Native American tribes to the west. The "Trail of Tears" was the migration of the Cherokee tribe.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
300
This region embraced factories and textile mills and developed (mechanical) industry. This region's economy differed from it's counterpart so it grew apart from it.
What is the North/Northeast?
300
The issue that caused the division of the north and south, the conflict of the Compromise of 1850, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Beecher Stowe to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin", the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict, the formation of the Know-Nothing Party and the Free-Soilers, the Dredd Scott decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and ultimately the south's seccession and the Civil War was this.
What is slavery?
300
Scalawags (white farmers), Carpetbaggers (northerners who went south seeking opportunities after the war), and 90% of all African Americans made up the majority of this.
What is Southern Republicans?
400
After failed negotiation attempts, new president James Polk sent troops into Mexico. The Mexican-American war occurred and Santa Anna accepted defeat in 1848. This document confirmed America's victory and the annexation of Texas, New Mexico, and California.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
In 1828, Congress raised the Import Tariff of 1816. Southerners called it the Tariff of Abomination because of the trouble it caused in their economy. This man, Jackson's Vice President, developed the Theory of Nullification to try to free South Carolina from the tariff.
Who is John Calhoun?
400
This region grew in agriculture and embraced machines like the cotton gin which was invented by Eli Whitney. This region's economy differed from its counterpart so it grew apart from it.
What is the South/Southwest?
400
This battle in Pennsylvania was the most decisive of the war and President Lincoln gave this less-than-two-minute speech to dedicate a cemetery here.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
Some white southerners accepted the changes and African Americans while some hated blacks and formed hate groups. The most famous hate group against African Americans is this.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill and it ignited this huge migration west to mine gold in 1849.
What is the California Gold Rush?
500
President Jackson opposed the National Bank so he created these instead.
What are Pet Banks?
500
Samuel Morse invented this in 1837.
What is the Telegraph?
500
The Union General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate General Robert E. Lee met here to arrange the Confederate surrender on April 3rd, 1865.
What is Appomattox, Virginia?
500
Congress passed this act which returned voting rights to 150,000 Confederates and allowed the Freedmen's Bureau Act to expire. As a result, Southern Democrats returned to power in the government.
What is the Amnesty Act?
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