Era of Jefferson
What did McCulloch v. Maryland establish?
Federal government > state governments
What happened at the Hartford Convention?
Convention of Federalists from five New England states who opposed the War of 1812 and resented the strength of southern and western interests in Congress and in the White House.
Forced march of fifteen thousand Cherokee Indians from their Georgia and Alabama homes to Indian territory. Some four thousand Cherokees died on the arduous journey.
Trail of Tears
Religious followers of Joseph Smith, who founded a communal, oligarchic religious order in the 1830s, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Mormons, facing deep hostility from their non-mormon neighbors, eventually migrated west and established a flourishing settlement in the Utah desert.
Mormons
Abolitionist movement
What is the Revolution of 1800?
Peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans in the executive branch.
Statement delivered by the U.S. warning European powers to refrain from seeking new territories in the Americas
Monroe Doctrine
What were two effects of the Democratic Revolution?
Suffrage for white men expanded with property qualifications for voting being disbanded
Andrew Jackson voted in
What is considered the most successful Antebellum reform movement - drastically decreased the consumption of alcohol in the U.S.
Temperance Movement
This woman is most known for her "Ai'n't I a Woman" speech
Sojourner Truth
Why did Jefferson want to buy the Louisiana Territory? How did he justify the purchase?
Feared Napoleon would take over the U.S.
Loose interpretation of the Constitution
What did the Missouri Compromise establish?
Maine entered the Union as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and the 36 degrees 30' parallel
Define the American System
Henry Clay’s three-pronged system to promote American industry. Clay advocated a strong banking system, a protective tariff, and a federally funded transportation network
Early 19th C artistic and intellectual movement that reflected a belief in human perfectibility and challenged Enlightenment ideas of rationality by insisting on the importance of human passion, the mysteries of nature, and the virtues of common folk
Romantic Era
What argument did abolitionist women to relate to enslaved women?
Women argued that traditional gender roles resulted in the domestic enslavement of women
What did Marbury v. Madison establish?
Judicial Review
What did the Adams-Onis Treaty 1819 do?
Sold FL to U.S. and defined border between U.S. and Spanish holdings in the West
Describe the Nullification Crisis
Showdown between President Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina legislature, which declared the 1832 tariff null and void in the state and threatened seccession if the federal government tried to collect duties. It was resolved by a compromise negotiated by Henry Clay in 1833.
Man who is considered the founder of the transcendentalist school of thought
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who wrote the famous book, Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What treaty ended the War of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War and what land did the U.S. acquire?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Southwestern territory of the present day U.S.
Name 2 out of 3 new projects that were constructed
National Road
Turnpikes
Erie Canal
Define transcendentalism
Movement founded in the 1830s that proposed that individuals look inside themselves and to nature for spiritual and moral guidance rather than to formal religion
Read at the Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848, and declared that all men and women are created equal.
Declaration of Sentiments