The Federal Period
These acts tanked John Adams's presidency and served as a major catalyst for the "Revolution of 1800."
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
What is the Market/ Industrial Revolution?
This reform movement based on the belief that all people can be forgiven and saved inspired others aimed to improve society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The term for letting the locals decide if a state in the territories should be free or open to slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
President Lincoln forced Americans to suspend their constitutional right to this, leading to arrests without probable cause.
What is (writ of) habeas corpus?
The Era of Good Feelings was used to describe a period of relative political unity after this major conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
The Age of Jackson was defined by increased democratic participation, with expanded voting rights for this demographic group.
What are white men?
Don't get it twisted: This -ism that reflects anti-immigrant sentiments is more Know-Nothing than Indian Removal.
What is Nativism?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the formation of this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address called for charity for all, this toward none.
What is malice?
The decision in McCulloch v. Maryland typified the Marshall Court's use of the Supremacy Clause to give power and priority to this government.
What is the national or federal government? (Over the states)
The name given to the policy of rewarding friends and supporters with government jobs.
What is the spoils system?
The 19th Century philosophy best associated with a painting of Columbia flying with a telegraph cable and a school book in her hands.
What is manifest destiny?
This controversial part of a omnibus compromise burst a bubble of distance Northerners felt from caring about slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The battle on bloodiest day of the war that gave Lincoln the momentum for Emancipation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams influenced this foreign policy plan that effectively closed the Western Hemisphere to European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Democrats took the blame for this economic event that resulted from the killing of the National Bank, the plummeting value of slave labor, and Martin Van Buren's failure to repeal Jackson's laissez-faire policies.
What is the Panic of 1837?
In New York state in 1848, these two words were added to a Thomas Jefferson 1776 original that starts "we hold these truths to be self-evident..."
What is "and women"?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The last plantation of the Confederacy, in this town and state, was emancipated on June 19, 1865.
What is Galveston, TX?
The Supreme Court case that gave the judiciary the power to declare federal or state laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
John C. Calhoun's response to Jackson's "Tariff of Abominations" called for the states right to do this to unconstitutional laws.
What is nullify?
President of the United States during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James Polk?
Ask a Southerner in 1861 to justify why they were seceding and they'll say either property rights OR these rights. (Clint Smith will call BS -- SLAVERY!)
What are states rights?
Enslaved people in the border states were freed once this was enacted as the Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the 13th Amendment?