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Proposed the "American System."
Who is Henry Clay?
A political scandal that arose when the Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, allegedly met with John Quincy Adams before the House election to break a deadlock. Adams was elected president against the popular vote and Clay was named Secretary of State.
What is corrupt bargain?
This election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party.
What is the Election of 1800?
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor.
What is the temperance movement?
The Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by this President, known as the Louisiana Purchase which doubled the size of the United States.
Who is Jefferson?
Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This time period is defined as the time between the formation of the US government and the outbreak of the American Civil War.
What is the antebellum period?
Women met in New York to call for expanded women's rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The arrangement under which public offices were handed out on the basis of political support rather than qualifications
What is the spoils system?
Vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Caused by British restrictions on U.S. trade and America's desire to expand its territory
What is the War of 1812?
This groups goal was to immediately and unconditionally abolish slavery; it sponsored speaking tours of orators, including Frederick Douglass, and published antislavery books, newspapers, and pamphlets. By the late 1830s, it had hundreds of chapters and 250,000 members
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
This called for a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other "internal improvements" to develop profitable markets for agriculture
What is the American System?
Ended the War of 1812 and required all conquered territory to be returned and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United State and Canada
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
Won the election of 1824.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
363-mile waterway that connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River in upstate New York
What is the Erie Canal?
A political party formed in 1834 by opponents of President Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian Democrats.
What is Whig party?
The confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
What is the Nullification Crisis?
A series of gradual transformations that began the process where the majority of Americans no longer lived in the countryside and worked as small yeoman farmers or skilled artisan workers, but instead lived in cities and worked in factories.
What is the market revolution?
Established a newspaper that advocated for the abolition of slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Represents a belief that mothers were responsible for raising children to practice the principles of republicanism, thus making them perfect citizens of a new country.
What is republican motherhood?
A period in the United States' political history from 1815 to 1825 that was marked by a sense of national unity and purpose after the War of 1812
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Warned European powers not to attempt further colonization or otherwise interfere in the Western Hemisphere, stating that the United States would view any such interference as a potentially hostile act
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia
Who is Nat Turner?