War & National Identity
This war helped inspire a sense of American nationalism and produced the national anthem.
What is the War of 1812?
This invention dramatically increased cotton production in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This religious movement inspired many reform efforts during the early 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
By 1848, voting rights expanded mainly for this group.
Who are white men?
This battle convinced many Americans that they could defend their nation without British help.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This transportation innovation connected the Midwest to Northern markets.
What are canals (especially the Erie Canal)?
This economic system depended on enslaved labor and cotton production.
What is the Cotton Kingdom?
This reform movement aimed to end alcohol abuse.
What is the temperance movement?
This concept allowed more white men to vote by removing property requirements.
What is universal white male suffrage? OR What is Jacksonian Democracy?
After the War of 1812, Americans began emphasizing an ideology based on independence from Europe in politics and culture.
What is nationalism?
This system relied on wage labor and developed mainly in Northern factories.
What is industrial capitalism/industrialization?
This group was denied political rights in many Northern states.
Who are free African Americans?
This former enslaved person became one of the most influential abolitionist speakers.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This convention marked a turning point in the women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This president’s presidency symbolized the rise of the “common man” in American politics.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
These textile mills employed young women and symbolized early industrial labor.
What are the Lowell Mills?
This law forced Native Americans off their land to make room for white settlement.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first gathering for this reform movement.
What is the women’s rights movement?
This document demanded women’s suffrage and equality under the law.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This post–War of 1812 period of emphasized American nationalism.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
The economic development of the nation led to this interdependence between northern and southern economies.
What is factory slavery?
This Supreme Court case ruled that Native American tribes were “domestic dependent nations.”
What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?
This abolitionist newspaper called slavery a moral evil.
What is The Liberator?
This group was excluded from voting and legal independence due to coverture laws.
Who are women?