Political dates
The last year the Federalists would have a president.
1801
Forcible relocation of indigenous peoples from Georgia and the southeast. An estimated 4,000 people died on this route to Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in exchange of goods and services in market transactions due largely in part to transportation networks, roads, and canals.
What is the Market Revolution?
Foreign policy document that told Europe the western hemisphere was closed for business.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. (1848)
What is the Declaration of Sentiments? Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
CATEGORY: WHO SAID IT?
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"I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy"
Era of Good Feelings begins.
1815
First women's rights convention held in New York in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Financial institution chartered in 1790 and recharted in 1816 to give the nation a stable economic footing.
What is the Bank of the United States (BUS)?
Native American prophet who attempted to resist the endless flow of settlers into the west.
Who is Tecumseh and his brother?
It gives me great pleasure to announce to Congress that the Government’s benevolent policy of Indian removal has almost been achieved. We have wept over the fate of the natives of this country, as one by one many tribes have disappeared from the earth. However, we must accept this the way we accept when an older generation dies and makes room for the younger. (1830)
Andrew Jackson
The Whig party formed after the second inauguration of Andrew Jackson
1833
Who is Eli Whitney?
The first attempted secession by American states (1814).
What is the Hartford Convention?
On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.
William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator
Nullification crisis was in response to a tariff created in this year.
1828
Religious group that promoted gender equality and also made high quality furniture!
Who are the Shakers?
What are "pet banks"?
Treaty signed by the Americans and the British that ended the War of 1812 and changed absolutely nothing.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
"It is true I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them I take only my existence; from my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune; and oh! that I could make of my own fortune; and oh! that I could make that of my red people, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the Spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear the treaty and to obliterate the landmark; but I would say to him: “Sir, you have liberty to return to your own country.” (1813)
Who is Tecumseh?
1807
Most famous American evangelical preacher of the Second Great Awakening who emphasized emotion and humanity's good nature.
Who is Charles Finney?
Supreme Court case that established the supremacy of the national government.
McCullough v. Maryland
Treaty signed between the United States' government and Spain in 1819, giving the US Florida.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty.
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?