Slavery
Senator John C. Calhoun had very strong views regarding slavery. Was he for or against it?
FOR (argued that maintaining slavery was essential to protecting the southern way of life)
Where did the first women's rights convention meet?
Seneca Falls, New York
The purchase of the Louisiana territory occurred under which president?
Thomas Jefferson
Which industry was President Jefferson most concerned with protecting/expanding?
Agriculture/farming
Which presidential candidate implemented the "log cabin" campaign?
William Henry Harrison (self-made man; lived quietly in a cabin; drank hard cider instead of fancy wine)
Which organization had the goal of transporting African Americans to Africa?
American Colonization Society
Which movement encouraged conversion to evangelical Christianity?
Second Great Awakening
Name one reason that the opening of the Erie Canal in 1925 was important.
Connected the eastern and western regions, many towns sprang up along it, led to a canal boom in other parts of the country
Which state most vocally supported the principle of nullification?
South Carolina
Who wrote the influential pamphlet, Appeal...to the Colored Citizens of the World?
David Walker (a free black man from NC)
Who called for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves"? (name the specific person, or the organization they led)
William Lloyd Garrison/The Liberator/New England Anti-Slavery Society/American Anti-Slavery Society
Indicate what was decided by the Missouri Compromise.
Maine was admitted as a free state; Missouri as a slave state
What precedent was set by the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison?
judicial review (the Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts)
Name two locations where slave rebellions occurred in the 1830s and 1840s.
Haiti, South Carolina, Virginia (Nat Turner)
Name four different types of reform movements that were active in the nineteenth century.
Which government body supported the efforts of the Cherokee nation to retain their tribal lands in Georgia?
The US Supreme Court
Explain the concept of nullification.
Belief that states have the right to void, within their own borders, a law passed by Congress
Describe what the gag rule was AND its significance.
In 1836, Congress would automatically table antislavery petitions until 1844, which kept the issue off the Congressional stage
Name the commune that was created by transcendentalists outside Boston.
Brook Farm
Name three reasons for the War of 1812.
desire to annex Canada, defending the honor of the US (for the impressment of our sailors), safeguarding the frontier, possibility of acquiring Florida
Name three components of Henry Clay's "American System."
tariffs to protect manufacturing, federally subsidized roads and canals, national bank, increased trade among regions of the nation, greater reliance on domestic resources