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Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A drastic change in the manual-labor system originating in the South (and moved to the North) and later spreading to the entire world. Traditional commerce was made obsolete by improvements in transportation, communication, and industry.
What is the Market Revolution?
President who implemented the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Jackson?
A suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker who was the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
In a unanimous decision, the Court held that Congress had the power to incorporate the bank and that Maryland could not tax instruments of the national government employed in the execution of constitutional powers.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time no candidate ran as a Federalist, while five significant candidates competed as Democratic-Republicans.
What is the Election of 1824?
A Founding Father of the United States who wrote the Declaration of Independence. As U.S. president, he completed the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This President warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
Who is Monroe?
Best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of Seven Gables,' and also wrote many short stories.
This authorized the president to grant Indian tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their desirable territories within state borders (especially in the Southeast), from which the tribes would be removed.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Established the principal of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher; a New England Transcendentalist and author of the book Walden.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
An American journalistic crusader who helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States; started an abolitionist paper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Was founded in 1833 under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison. It sponsored meetings, adopted resolutions, signed antislavery petitions to be sent to Congress, published journals, printed and distributed propaganda, and sent out lecturers (70 in 1836 alone) to carry the antislavery message to Northern audiences.
What is the American Antislavery Society?
What is the American System?
A United States sectional political crisis in 1832–33, which involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Became the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1801. He is largely responsible for establishing the Supreme Court's role in federal government.
Who is John Marshall?
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, she created the agenda for woman’s rights. Her speeches addressed such topics as maternity, divorce law, temperance, abolition, and presidential campaigns.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This meeting launched the women's suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.
What is the Spoils System?
Caused by British restrictions on U.S. trade and America’s desire to expand its territory
What is the War of 1812?
Leader of the Whig party and five times an unsuccessful presidential candidate. He played a central role on the stage of national politics for over forty years. He was secretary of state under John Quincy Adams, Speaker of the House of Representatives longer than anyone else in the nineteenth century, and the most influential member of the Senate during its golden age.
Who is Henry Clay?
An educator and social reformer whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread international reforms.
Who was Dorthea Dix?
Leader of a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
Who was Nat Turner?