The Early Republic
This pair of Shawnee brothers built a confederacy to try to thwart westward US expansion
Who are Tecumseh and The Prophet?
code word: yrotsih
This advancement in technology vastly decreased the amount of time it took to bring goods from the Great Lakes region to maritime ports on the East Coast
What is the Erie Canal OR steamboats?
This was the primary trigger for the Panic of 1837
What is the over-expansion of credit and speculation?
These two men are well known for their Transcendentalist writings
Who are Emerson and Thoreau
This hybrid species of cotton quickly became the dominant crop due to the ease in separating fibers from seeds in a cotton gin
What is Petit Gulf?
This event in the Caribbean frightened American plantation owners, who feared the same thing could happen in the USA
What is the Haitian Revolution?
These young women left their farms by the thousands to go work in factories in Massachusetts
Who are the Lowell Mills Girls?
This crisis erupted after the sitting Vice President penned a letter to the states saying they could choose to disregard federal regulations such as tariffs
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This movement was intended to curb what was seen as a growing problem with alcoholism
What is the Temperance Movement?
Much of the new lands in the Deep South set aside for cotton production were acquired via this act
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This phrase was coined to describe a social expectation that women would marry well and produce patriotic children
What is Republican Motherhood?
Rapid increases in the ability to produce cotton products more efficiently ironically caused an increase in this as well
What is slavery?
This political party was created for the sole purpose of pushing Andrew Jackson out of office
What is the Whig Party?
This failed attempt at a utopian community was a product of the Transcendentalist Movement
What is the Brook Farm community?
This device vastly increased the efficiency in which cotton fibers and seeds were separated
What is the cotton gin?
This American warship, nicknamed "Old Ironsides," got its name from how British cannonballs seemed to simply bounce off its sides
What is USS Constitution?
The Market Revolution essentially involved a transition from farming for myself and my family, to farming for this
What is profit?
This immigrant group was considered the "worst" of all immigrants due to typically lacking both job skills and a family network
Who are the Irish?
What are the Methodists?
This term describes investors buying land cheap and then attempting to resell it at a much higher cost, driving up inflation
What is speculation?
This man was touted as an example of how becoming civilized meant becoming white
Who was Henry Moss?
This concept involved restricting men to certain roles and women to certain roles
What is separate spheres?
Almost all of Jackson's cabinet resigned after this scandal
What is the Eaton Affair or Petticoat Affair?
While many Germans and some Irish were proven to be hardworking and industrious immigrants, there was still an underlying fear that they would try to spread this throughout our government
What is Catholicism?
Many cotton farmers would put these up as collateral in order to be able to afford more land
What are slaves?