The Age of Jackson
He established the spoils system and opposed the national bank.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The religious revival that inspired reform movements was called this.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
his 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This belief was the idea that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This colonial region had a warm climate, rich soil, and its economy depended on plantations worked by slaves.
What is the Southern Colonies?
This South Carolina senator argued states could nullify federal laws.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
He is known as the “Father of Public Education.”
Who is Horace Mann?
This 1857 Supreme Court case declared slaves to be property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This president won the 1844 election by supporting the idea of Manifest Destiny
Who was James K. Polk?
These 1798 laws limited free speech and targeted immigrants.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This event forced the Cherokee to relocate west of the Mississippi.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This enslaved preachers 1831 revolt led Southern states to pass stricter slave codes
Who is Nat Turner?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to decide slavery by this principle.
What is popular sovereignty?
This 1848 land acquisition included California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This group argued against the Constitution, fearing a strong central government, and demanded the addition of a Bill of Rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This political crisis pitted Jackson against South Carolina over tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This meeting was marked by the participation of 300 attendees and the beginning of the women's rights movement
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This violent episode in Kansas foreshadowed the Civil War.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
Ralph Waldo Emerson warned the Mexican War would “poison” the U.S. by reigniting this issue.
What is the expansion of slavery?
This law included a tax on paper materials and followed the French and Indian War as a way to repay war debts
What is the Stamp Act?
This election was called the “Corrupt Bargain.”
What is the Election of 1824?
This person was formerly enslaved, wrote an autobiography, and published the newspaper, The North Star
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1859 raid on a federal arsenal was an attempt to spark a slave rebellion.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This doctrine declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European colonization
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This foreign policy was adopted following the War of 1812 and declared that Europeans were not welcome to colonize the western hemisphere, and that the United States would intervene if they tried.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?