Elections of 1824 & 1828
Integrated mercantilist program that focused on using tariffs to fund infrastructure
What was Henry Clay's American System?
What is South Carolina?
Jackson's system to reward his allies and get backing for his policies
What is the Spoil System?
This abolitionist printer founded The Liberator in 1831 and demanded immediate emancipation without compensating slaveholders
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This strategy encouraged Black people to achieve “respectability” through education, temperance, and hard work.
What is social uplift?
The 5 Republican candidates running for presidency in 1828
Who were John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, William Crawford, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson?
The two things the Ordinance of Nullification deemed void
What were the tariffs of 1828 and 1832?
Informal advisory group, including Francis Preston Blair and Amos Kendall, was President Andrew Jackson’s trusted source of policy guidance
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
What William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, and 60 other abolitionists founded
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society?
Published in 1827 by John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish, this was the first African American newspaper in the United States
What is Freedom’s Journal?
The type of government Van Buren and his supporters were against
What is consolidated government?
The senator that argued for a nationalist interpretation following The South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Who is Daniel Webster (MA)?
New York politician, named Jackson’s Secretary of State, that helped organize a disciplined national party using patronage
Who is Martin Van Buren?
These were two examples of female-founded abolitionist societies.
What are the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, and the Anti-Slavery Conventions of American Women?
This free Black author wrote the 1829 pamphlet Appeal… to the Colored Citizens of the World, warning white Americans that slavery could spark violent rebellion.
Who is David Walker?
Andrew Jackson's nickname when he was running for presidency
What is Old Hickory?
The person who anonymously wrote The South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828), whose arguments facilitated the arguments for nullification
Who is John C. Calhoun?
Jackson wanted to destroy this program associated with Henry Clay, which promoted federally funded internal improvements
What is the American System?
Informal network of free Black people and white allies helped roughly 1,000 enslaved people escape to the North each year.
What is the Underground Railroad?
At a national convention in 1830, African American delegates rejected both social uplift and calls for violent revolt, instead demanding these two goals for all people of African descent.
What are freedom and race equality?
The office John Quincy Adams held that made him famous for his diplomacy
What is Secretary of State?
Jackson's response to the Ordinance of Nullification
What was a tariff reduction?
Jackson vetoed multiple internal improvement bills (including an extension of this major road) and argued they violated states’ rights and exceeded federal power
What is the National Road?
Abolitionists used this political strategy to pressure Congress, sending nearly 500,000 signatures calling for the end of slavery in D.C. and other reforms
What is petitioning Congress (the abolitionist petition campaign)?
Interpreting a solar eclipse as a divine sign, this enslaved preacher led a rebellion in Virginia in 1831 that killed at least 55 white people and shocked the South.
Who is Nat Turner?