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100

Initially founded by "Mother" Ann Lee, these communities of the early 1800s followed principles of celibacy, simplicity, common property, and equal labor.

Utopian Communities

100

Published in 1823 by President James Monroe, this stated that the United States would no longer tolerate European colonization in its sphere of influence (i.e. North, South America).

Monroe Doctrine

100

This was a famous dark romantic novelist from Massachusetts who is famous for writing American classics in the mid-1800s such as The Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

100
American inventor famous for inventing the Cotton Gin in 1794, a machine which dramatically increased the production of cotton and the demand of slaves throughout the 1800s.

Eli Whitney

100

Economic correction caused largely by the crash of the 2nd BUS and in some part, by Henry Clay's American System.

Panic of 1819

200

This was an American nurse who is notable for opening up some of the first mental asylums in the United States. Famous advocate for the disabled and mentally ill.

Dorothea Dix

200

This entailed a series of secret meetings in 1814 and 1815 which helped lead to the downfall of the Federalist Party.

Hartford Convention

200

This was an abolitionist society founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan which utilized public outreach to achieve abolitionist objectives.

American Anti-Slavery Society

200

This man was an industrialist and inventor of the Mechanical Reaper.

Cyrus McCormick

200

This reopened the United States to trade with all nations barring Britain and France in 1809, replaced the Embargo Act.

Non-Intercourse Act

300

Created by Charles B. Allen, this anti-immigrant group developed into the "Know-Nothing" party.

Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

300

This resolution, passed by the House of Representatives during Andrew Jackson's presidency required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate.

"Gag" Resolution of 1836
300

This was an American poet, essayist, diplomat, and literary critic best known for writing the "Biglow Papers", a work which condemned President Polk's policy of expanding slavery in the United States.

James Russel Lowell

300

This man was an American inventor notable for inventing both the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship. Helped advance New England shipbuilding.

Robert Fulton

300

Passed during the later half of the Jefferson administration, this piece of legislation forbid all exportation of goods from the U.S. to weaken France and Britain after multiple sea skirmishes.

Embargo Act of 1807

400
This person was famous for founding the first Women's College in the United States, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

Mary Lyon

400

This landmark Supreme Court case was influential in upholding the sanctity of contracts in America. 

Dartmouth v. Woodward

400

Based in New York, this consisted of famous writers such as Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryant who helped enable America to boast about having respectable literary voices.

The Knickerbocker Group

400
Founded by Nathan Hale in Boston, MA, this was America's first literary magazine

North American Review

400

This was a tariff aimed at protecting merchants, while also attempting to protect New England textile factories from British competition.

Tariff of 1816

500

This was a stereotypical caricature of an 1800s British man in American Political cartoons. Typically appears to be a chubby, stout, and jolly fellow.

John Bull

500

This landmark supreme court case was influential in giving the Supreme Court the right to review any decision involving powers of the federal government.

Cohens v. Virginia 

500
These were largely New England-born, northeast establishment, abolitionist writers who wrote about the American South negatively due to their hatred of slavery. Influential in shaping public opinion throughout the mid-1800s.

American Historians (George Bancroft, William H. Prescott, and Francis Parkman)

500

This man is famous for bringing the first water powered cotton mill to the United States, earning the nickname "The Father of the American Factory System".

Samuel Slater

500

This bill, becoming a law on May 14, 1810 temporarily lifted all embargoes on Britain and France for three months.

Macon's Bill #2.

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