Vocabulary
What is the word for voting rights?
Suffrage
Did voter participation increase or decrease during the Age of Jackson?
increase
Who did factories mainly hire?
Women, children, and immigrants
What is the belief that it was America's destiny to own territory from coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny
What is an abolitionist?
someone who wants to get rid of slavery
What does economic mean?
Relates to money/selling and buying goods
Where were Native Americans relocated to during the Trail of Tears?
Oklahoma
The factory system involved creating goods through the use of what?
Machines
What doubled the size of the US?
Louisiana Purchase
What book helped spread abolitionism?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What's the word for a large farm that grows cash crops with the use of slave labor?
A plantation
How did voting rights change during the Age of Jackson?
They got rid of the property ownership requirement
What was the impact of the cotton gin?
Expanded slavery
What was the effect of the expansion of land on the Mississippi river?
What is the system of giving political jobs to your supporters instead of qualified people?
Spoils system
What did President Jackson do to the National Bank?
Got rid of it/put all the money in state banks
Which river did the Erie Canal connect to Lake Erie?
Hudson River
What year did we buy the Louisiana Purchase?
1803
What is popular sovereignty?
People voting on an issue to decide the law (usually relates to slavery)
What describes the push to increase the power of the common man and protecting them from elites?
Jacksonian Democracy
What allowed factories to produce electricity and provide an efficient way to move goods?
Fast moving rivers and streams
What did we get from Spain in the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Florida.