Monroe & Early Nationalism
The period following the War of 1812 during James Monroe’s presidency, characterized by national pride and the temporary dominance of a single political party.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
These were the three core components of Henry Clay's "American System" designed to unify the national economy.
What are protective tariffs, a national bank, and infrastrcuture?
The term applied by Andrew Jackson's supporters to the Election of 1824 when Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams in the House vote and became Secretary of State.
What is the "Corrupt Bargain"?
The forced relocation of thousands of Cherokee people to territory west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The social reform movement dedicated to addressing excessive alcohol consumption and its impact on families and society.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The leader who organized settlers to move to Texas in 1822.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
He piloted the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars, escaped a giant rolling boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and went on the run from Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive.
Who is Harrison Ford?
She volunteered as tribute in District 12, transformed into the blue mutant Mystique in the X-Men franchise, and won an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
It is the 1823 foreign policy declaration that warned European powers against further colonization or intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Eli Whitney's 1793 invention that led directly to the rapid expansion of slavery across the Deep South.
What is the cotton gin?
The major voting qualification reform that contributed to Andrew Jackson’s victory in the Election of 1828.
What is the elimination of property ownership requirements for white male voters?
The Vice President who authored the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to defend state sovereignty.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The 1848 gathering in New York that served as the official starting point for the Women's Rights Movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The 1836 siege where all Texan defenders were killed by Santa Anna’s troops, becoming a famous battle cry for Texas independence.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
This actor kept a city bus above 50 mph in Speed, dodged bullets in the digital world of The Matrix, and avenged a puppy across the John Wick franchise.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
She played MJ in the MCU's Spider-Man trilogy, performed trapeze stunts in The Greatest Showman, and rode sandworms as Chani in the Dune franchise.
Who is Zendaya?
This state admitted to the Union as a free state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to maintain the balance of power in the Senate.
What is Maine?
This major engineering project was completed in 1825 and transformed the U.S. economy by connecting the Great Lakes to New York City.
What is the Erie Canal?
The political practice, expanded under Jackson, of rewarding loyal political supporters with government positions.
What is the Spoils System?
President Andrew Jackson's response to the Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia.
What is ignoring the ruling and refusing to enforce it.
The religious group that traveled west, creating their own Trail, to settle in Utah under Brigham Young to escape persecution.
Who are the Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)?
The 1848 treaty that officially ended the Mexican-American War and ceded major western lands to the U.S. for $15 million.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
You can spot this prolific actor getting eaten by a raptor in Jurassic Park, reciting Ezekiel 25:17 in Pulp Fiction, and recruiting Earth's mightiest heroes in The Avengers.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
She kept a runaway city bus moving in Speed, went undercover at a beauty pageant in Miss Congeniality, and untethered in orbit in Gravity.
Who is Sandra Bullock?
This was the line of latitude established by the Missouri Compromise as the dividing boundary for slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase territory.
What is 36°30' North?
Protective tariffs during the 1820's & 30's primarily hurt this region of the US.
What is the South?
He was the Supreme Court Justice to whom President Jackson showed no regard and chose to not enforce their ruling regarding the Cherokee in Georgia.
Who is John Marshall?
The political doctrine advanced by South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis regarding federal law.
What is a state's right to nullify (void) federal law?
The primary document produced at the Seneca Falls Convention, modeled directly on the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
The 1853 land acquisition purchased from Mexico to secure a southern route for a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
He froze in the icy Atlantic in Titanic, navigated deep dream levels in Inception, and made a fortune off penny stocks in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
he survived a ruthless fashion editor in The Devil Wears Prada, suited up as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, and traveled through a wormhole in Interstellar.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
It was this political party, during the Era of Good Feelings, that dominated the political landscape.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
The Lowell System in Massachusetts employed many young women helping further separate the North from the South by solidifying them in this economic sphere.
What is the factory system or industry?
The 1832 Supreme Court case ruling that the Cherokee Nation was a distinct political community in which Georgia laws had no force.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The two pieces of federal action engineered by Henry Clay and Congress to resolve the Nullification Crisis.
What are a compromise tariff and the Force Bill?
The political party formed by Nativists in the 1850s to restrict immigration and naturalization laws
What is the Know-Nothing Party (American Party)?
This Congressman (prior to becoming president) introduced the "Spot Resolutions", demanding to know the exact location where American blood was shed that sparked the Mexican-American War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He provided Batman with high-tech gear in The Dark Knight, tracked down a serial killer in Seven, and played the U.S. President bracing for a comet in Deep Impact.
Who is Morgan Freeman?
She battled a terrifying Xenomorph in deep space, got possessed as Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters, and studied the Na'vi as Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar.
Who is Sigourney Weaver?