Jeffersonian America
Category 1: Jeffersonian America
Textbook Chapters 7 & 8
Chapter 7: "The Early Republic, 1790–1820" (Presidencies of Jefferson & Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, Native policy)
Chapter 8: "Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840" (Rise of mass democracy, Jackson’s political revolution)
Category 2: Native American Relations & Resistance
Textbook Chapters 7, 8 & 11
Chapter 7: Native resistance, Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa
Chapter 8: Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears
Chapter 11: "A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860" (further context for removal and resistance)
Category 3: Political & Economic Change
Textbook Chapters 8 & 9
Chapter 8: Missouri Compromise, Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion
Chapter 9: "Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850" (Cotton gin, economic changes, Panic of 1819)
Category 4: Jacksonian & Antebellum Politics
Textbook Chapters 8 & 9
Chapter 8: Jacksonian political culture, rise of Whigs, Second Bank, Indian Removal Act, Spoils System
Chapter 9: Growing sectionalism, economic developments
Category 5: The Market Revolution & Reform
Textbook Chapters 9 & 12
Chapter 9: Market Revolution, transportation, communication, urbanization, labor movement
Chapter 12: "Utopia and Reform, 1820–1840" (Second Great Awakening, temperance, education, abolition, women’s rights)
Category 6: Westward Expansion & Sectionalism
Textbook Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Westward expansion, Texas Revolution, Mexican-American War, gold rush, Wilmot Proviso
This 1801 law expanded lower court judges but reduced Supreme Court justices to limit Jefferson's appointments.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1801?
This early 19th-century movement called for Native Americans to return to traditional customs and reject alcohol and American influence.
What is the Native American Revival?
This invention by Eli Whitney greatly increased cotton production and demand for slave labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The nickname for Jackson's expansion of voting rights to all white men, not just property owners.
What is White Man's Democracy?
Before 1815, most American agriculture relied on this system, producing only what families needed.
What is subsistence agriculture?
This trail, used by migrants in the 1840s, followed a northwestern route to the Pacific.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This concept described the United States' supposed right to settle the whole continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Two brothers who led resistance against U.S. expansion—one a warrior, one a prophet.
Who are Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa?
America's first peacetime economic crisis, caused by over-speculation and falling cotton prices, was...?
What is the Panic of 1819?
This patronage system handed out government jobs to political supporters.
What is the Spoils System?
The first federally funded road project, begun in 1811.
What is the National Road?
The 1849 mass migration in search of gold happened in what new American territory?
What is California (Gold Rush, 49ers)?
In 1803, the U.S. doubled its land size with this purchase from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This war (1810–1813) saw a major pan-Indian alliance try to stop U.S. settlers from encroaching on native lands.
What is Tecumseh's War?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while drawing a boundary for future slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Political opponents called Andrew Jackson this due to his appeal to the "common man."
What is King Mob?
In 1844, this invention by Samuel Morse allowed near-instant long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph?
This conflict (1846–1848) resulted in the United States gaining vast southwestern territories from Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
These two leaders were tasked with mapping the Louisiana Purchase and finding a water route to the Pacific from 1804–1806.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This 1830 law led to the forced relocation of Southeastern tribes and ultimately the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1822 event in South Carolina increased Southern fears of slave rebellion.
What is Denmark Vesey's Rebellion?
This party, founded in 1834, opposed Jackson and promoted moral reform and infrastructure.
What are the Whigs?
This labor system in New England centralized all parts of textile production, attracting thousands of young women.
What is the Lowell System?
The 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and set the Rio Grande as the border.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Jefferson described Native Americans using this term and promoted their "assimilation" into American culture.
What is 'Noble Savage'?
The forced journey of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma (1831–1838) is called...?
What is the Trail of Tears?
Name the treaty that gave Florida to the U.S. after military and diplomatic pressure.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty (or Cession of Florida)?
This act forcibly removed the Cherokee, Choctaw, and others to the West, causing massive suffering and death.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This religious movement (1790–1850) led to social reforms like temperance and abolition.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This political proposal banned slavery in lands won from Mexico but did not pass.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?