Westward
Native Americans
You've got to look inside yourself to find the answers and determine what is right is the main belief of this philosophical and artistic movement led by writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism
William Lloyd Garrison was the editor of the Magazine/Newspaper "The Liberator" he would later work with Frederick Douglass on this goal
Abolition of Slavery
This Era between 1815 to 1825 saw a rise in national, patriotic pride and growth of the manufacturing sector in part due to the American System.
Era of Good Feelings
Urbanization is the growth of
Cities
Jackson and his Democrats felt the country's national bank was run by elites who only were interested in serving themselves, that the government was overstepping its power, and using this corrupt and nepotistic system of government job appointments which Jackson swore off, but was actually a big user of
Spoils System
Newspaper, book, and magazine readership went up in the United States due to more free time since new technologies made work shorter and easier. This revolution of technology that made work and transportation easier is called
Market Revolution/Industrial Revolution
Temperance is the movement mostly led by women to combat this
Drunkenness
Making easier and faster transport of goods to market
Lewis and Clark's mission was to explore the newly bought Louisiana Territory and find
Northwest Passage to the Pacific
This oft considered action of forced Indian Removal in the South to Oklahoma during the 1830s which led to the deaths of thousands of Native Americans due to exposure, starvation, exhaustion, and disease is more popularly called
Trail of Tears
The Burned-Over District of New York saw the birth of new Utopian societies in the 1820s-1850s and even the eventual establishment of the LDS (Mormon) Church during this era of spiritual enlightenment
Second Great Awakening
This common strategy of African-American resistance to slavery was relatively easy to get away with, thus making it popular. It involved the damaging of tools and supplies to hit it where it hurts slaveholders the most, their wallet. This is called
Sabotage
This Natural Waterway in the South made this city important to control in the battle named after it in the War of 1812 and made it an economic Southern powerhouse in the Antebellum era. What is the name of the river and city?
Mississippi River and New Orleans
This is the President who was in charge during the War of 1812, declared War on Britain, and then saw the capital get burned to the ground
James Madison (D-R)
The Purchase of the Louisiana Territory caused this to happen to the value of Western Land and benefitted this class of people.
Price goes down, benefits the poor and lower middle class
Women's Rights to vote, abolition of slavery, temperance were all examples of...
Antebellum Reform Movements
Mexico had a problem, whole lot of land and not enough farmers in Mexican Texas. However, the problem was the Southerners they invited wanted to bring these people, the practice of which had already been outlawed in Mexico. This lead to Texas's Revolution against Mexico (Remember the Alamo!) and led to Texas applying to join the US after its independence was won.
Slavery/Slaves
Great Lakes
Whigs and Democrats are similar to these to early political parties
Whigs-Federalists
Democrats-Anti-Feds/Early Dem-Reps
The Panic of 1819 due to the new peace between nations in Europe meant farmers had a lot less customers and too much supply causing this effect on the monetary value of their crops.
Decrease
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 in New York was a women's meeting to rally in support of establishing female suffrage as outlined in the Convention's "Declaration of Sentiments" which is modeled after the Declaration of Independence. Suffrage is...
The right to vote
Chattel Slavery is characterized by the deeming of children born by slaves, slaves themselves. This led to an increase in American born slaves. The number of slaves purchased was also spurned on by the invention of this by Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
In the War of 1812, Tecumseh sought to unite all Native Americans against American expansion. This led most Native Americans to side with this nation in the War of 1812 and helped lead to further hostilities from the Americans
British
Expansion of the electorate meant now politicians had to cater to this group of people
Poor and middle class white men