Age of Jackson
1 out of every 4 Natives died along this journey, as Jackson sent the military to force Natives to relocate.
What is the Trail of Tears?
When the rural population decreases due to availability of jobs in factories, and the population increases in manufacturing cities.
What is urbanization?
The Father of Public Education
Who is Horace Mann?
What is Manifest Destiny?
An immigrant group that left their country to seek fortune in the California gold fields and helped build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are Chinese immigrants?
Expanded suffrage to the common man since owning property was no longer a requirement to vote.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
The process that allows for the mass production of goods. Interchangeable parts make this possible.
What is the Factory System?
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The president that fulfilled the belief of expanding democracy and control from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Who is James K. Polk?
The Father of the American Industrial Revolution who also built the first textile mill in the U.S.
Who is Samuel Slater?
The Supreme Court case that ruled Georgia law of forcefully removing Natives to land west of the Mississippi River did not apply to the Cherokees.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
It allowed for cotton to be cleaned faster and made cotton production more profitable. This increased the demand for enslaved people and farmers needed more land.
What is the cotton gin?
The movement led by Lyman Beecher and Carrie Nation that worked to ban the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The discovery of a precious metal led to the mass migration to California and the creation of "boom towns".
What is the California Gold Rush?
This event was a spiritual revival that inspired a wave of social activism.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Jackson vetoed the recharter of the National Bank, viewing it as unconstitutional, favoring the wealthy, and distrusted paper currency. This increased the power of the president.
What is the Killing of the National Bank?
The development of the railroad, steamboats, canals, and the telegraph during the late 1700s and 1800s.
What are methods of transportation?
Writers of the Declaration of Sentiments who spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention to promote women's rights.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
A conflict fought over boundary disputes after the annexation of Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
A writer that believed in self-reliance, living in nature, and promoted civil disobedience. A writer that believed in self-reliance, living in nature, and promoted civil disobedience.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
A protective tariff is passed and South Carolina declares it unconstitutional. They want to nullify the tariff and threaten to secede. Congress passes the Force Act to enforce federal law over the states. This event results in the Compromise Tariff of 1832.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The idea that people control what is sold, bought and invested in, as opposed to the government. Businesses compete to attract customers.
What is Free Enterprise?
Two abolitionist leaders who wrote "The North Star" and "The Liberator", respectively.
Who are Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison?
The acquisition of 6 states in the present-day American Southwest that allowed for the U.S. to gain territory to the Pacific Ocean, fulfilling Manifest Destiny.
What is the Mexican Cession?
American paintings that focused on political debates and inclusion of the common man.
What are (American) genre paintings?