Reform
A religious movement that encouraged people to improve their lives which led to the start of various Reform Movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
After winning an election politicians reward their supporters by giving them jobs and positions within the government.
What is the spoils system?
This movement called for an end to slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement?
The invention of this in 1793 led to cotton exportation increasing to 1.6 million pounds(up from 138,000lbs in 1791) by the year 1795.
What is the cotton gin?
This actually began during the American Revolution but increased during the reform era of the 1800s and was symbolized by the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is the women's rights movement?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay's system which was destroyed during Jackson's presidency.
What is the American System?
This made marriage illegal, and prohibited education for slaves on plantations and also applied to freed African Americans.
What are slave codes?
These three presidents made up the Virginia Dynasty.
Who is Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe?
A reform movement that encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home.
What is the temperance movement?
This is a representation of the peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democrat-Republicans.
What is the Revolution of 1800 or the Election of Thomas Jefferson?
Label for the election of 1824 which was won by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay was made his Secretary of State.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
This informal agreement in the House automatically tabled antislavery petitions thereby keeping the explosive issue of slavery off the congressional stage.
What is the gag rule?
Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that would become the Star Spangled Banner after witnessing this war.
What is the war of 1812?
100 people, including 32 men, signed this outlining the grievances and setting an agenda for the women's rights movement.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
In response to European wars and British impressment Thomas Jefferson issued this which outlawed trade with all foreign countries.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
The argument that a state has the right to void within its borders, a law passed by Congress.
What is nullification?
To pro-slavery advocates, slavery was not considered a necessary evil, but this instead as they viewed themselves as paternal figures.
What is a positive good?
This tariff led to the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Tariff of 1828 or the Tariff of Abominations?
One of the first abolitionists who used fierce arguments to fight slavery and burned copies of the Constitution.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
A supreme court case that determined a Law passed by Congress to be unconstitutional and gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Required federal land be purchased with gold or silver.
What is the specie circular?
Less than 2,000 families made up this class of people in the South yet they controlled local and state politics.
What is the planting class?
In our class mock trial, the verdict for Andrew Jackson was this.
What is not guilty(1st period)/guilty(2nd period)?