New Political Parties
What was the Democratic Party?
President Andrew Jackson frequently used this presidential power to stop Congress' new laws, famously the charter for the national bank.
What is the veto?
Texan revolutionaries held off a Mexican army for 13 days at this battle led by Davy Crockett.
What was the Battle of the Alamo?
These technologies improved transportation to make westward expansion easier.
What are canals and/or railroads?
This is a term for a tax placed on foreign goods in order to make American goods more competitive and also makes prices higher.
What is a tariff?
This political party was led by Henry Clay. They supported a national bank, a high tariff, and government funding for infrastructure.
What was the Whig Party?
President Jackson's support of the Indian Removal Act resulted in this event, where 1/3 of southeast Native Americans died.
What was the Trail of Tears?
This president promised to acquire Oregon, annex Texas, acquire California, and lower tariffs all in one term.
Who was James Polk?
This new technology allowed for people to communicate with Morse code through wires and made communication over large distances easier.
What is the telegraph?
This movement arose to promote the moderation and/or banning of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
This party was nativist, meaning that they opposed immigration. Especially Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Germany.
What was the "Know Nothing" Party?
Andrew Jackson held many speeches and threw a party at the White House in order to show his support for this type of person.
Who is the "Common Man"?
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This was an attempt to ban slavery from all new territories gained from the Mexican-American War
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
These northern workshops and factories turned southern cotton into finished goods like clothes and fabrics.
What are textile mills?
This economic system, promoted by the Whig Party, proposed using high tariffs and a national bank in order to fund infrastructure projects.
What is the American System?
All white men were allowed to vote since most states removed the landowning requirement.
What is white male suffrage / franchise?
President Jackson gave government jobs to many political supporters based on party loyalty, rather than based on merit.
What was the Spoils System?
This is the belief that the United States was destined by God to expand west at any opportunity possible in order to "civilize" the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This invention created by Eli Whitney caused a shift in plantation agriculture from other cash crops (tobacco, indigo, rice) to mostly cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This religious movement inspired new social movements like the abolition movement, temperance movement, and women's suffrage movement.
New political parties emerged after this event, when Speaker of the House Henry Clay swayed the vote in the House of Representatives to elect John Quincy Adams instead of Andrew Jackson
What is the "Corrupt Bargain"?
In this event in 1828, President Jackson threatened use of the military against South Carolina because they "nullified" the Tariff of Abominations.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War. The United States gained the California Territory and set the southern border at the Rio Grande.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This is the name of the period of time when new technologies caused massive economic growth during the early 1800's.
What is the Market Revolution?
This document declares the rights of women as equal to men.
What is the Seneca Falls Declaration?