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Best known as the brains behind the US Constitution, he was president during the War of 1812?
Who is James Madison?
Eli Whitney, a pioneer in interchangeable parts, invented this agricultural tool crucial to the Southern economy.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Because the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the US, Thomas Jefferson ordered a "Corps of Discovery" to explore the land, led by who?
Who are Lewis & Clark
This Protestant revival movement democratized American religion, shifting focus from predestination to free will and individual salvation, and inspired reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening
This forced removal of the "Five Civilized Tribes" from east of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma territory is called what?
What is the Trail of Tears
President who expanded his ideas of Constitutional powers when authorizing the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France
Who is Thomas Jefferson
The transformation of the U.S. economy (early 1800s) from subsistence farming and local production to a national, commercial, and industrialized system.
What is the Market Revolution?
A second American victory over Great Britain, despite the burning of Washington DC and a failed effort to invade Canada.
What is the War of 1812?
What is abolitionism
Increasing numbers of immigrants were lured by work opportunities in the US. Yet, this large group of Irish Catholics arrived due to what event in the 1840s?
What is the Irish Potato Famine
Ignored Worcester v. Georgia ruling and signed the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Steamboats and Railroads generated a transportation Revolution. This project shortened transportation time of goods between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Coast.
What is the Erie Canal
Named for the nation's fifth president, this document announced the US considered the western hemisphere closed to European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
This 1848 meeting produced the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, calling for equality between women and men.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
Early industrialization shaped migration patterns in the US when more people began to move away from rural areas for work, a process known as?
What is urbanization
Prominent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who helped establish the court's power of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison.
Who is John Marshall?
King Cotton in the South provided the raw materials needed for what industry in the North?
What is the Textile Industry?
This 1820 federal legislation established an imaginary line across the US at the 36*30' parallel to balance the admission of slave states below the line, and free states above it.
What is the Missouri Compromise.
This moral reform movement set its sights on ending the manufacturing and consumption of alcohol.
What is temperance
What is The Era of Good Feelings
The Great Compromiser from Kentucky, he promoted the American System, using federal funds to grow the econoy.
Who is Henry Clay?
Believing the National Bank favored the wealthy elites, he vetoed its recharter, triggering a "bank war"
Who is Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson nearly started a war with South Carolina when the state tried to nullify this.
What is the Tariff of 1828 (or the Tariff of Abominations)
Primarily religious (Shakers, Oneida) or secular (New Harmony, Brook Farm) in nature, these communal societies rejected the social ills of industrial society.
What are Utopian communities?
The Age of the Common Man reflects a shift in voting rights for white males when this requirement was removed by most states in the early 1800s?
What are property requirements