Age of Jackson
A New National Culture
Second Great Awakening
The Age of Reform
Black America in the Early Republic
The Antebellum South
100
John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay supposedly worked together to thwart Andrew Jackson's election to the presidency in 1824, leading to accusations they had engaged in this.
What is the "corrupt bargain"?
100
Noah Webster, in creating a new American dictionary, said "although the body of the language is the same as in England, . . . yet some differences must exist"; he was acknowledging America's cultural influences were still strongly tied to this continent.
What is Europe?
100
The Second Great Awakening, which took place from roughly 1790 to 1840, was partially a response to this economic development.
What is the Market Revolution?
100
These two women organized the Seneca Falls Convention after their voice was suppressed at an anti-slavery convention in England.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
100
This famous orator, abolitionist, and former enslaved person was probably the most photographed person in the 19th century.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
100
According to the chart, the majority of white Southerners did not come from this class of people.
What is the slaveholder class?
200
Andrew Jackson allegedly ignored the decision in Worcester v. Georgia to carry out this policy.
What is "Indian Removal"?
200
Artists from this school produced works such as this one during the Early Republic:
What is the Hudson River School?
200
This religious group founded during the Second Great Awakening often faced persecution before moving West.
What is the Church of Latter-Day Saints (aka Mormons)?
200
This political goal was originally omitted from the "Declaration of Sentiments" until Frederick Douglass urged organizers to include it.
What was the right to vote for women?
200
"Even more often, they engaged in sabotage, slowdowns, and subtle forms of resistance..." Not mentioned in the passage, it was a less common — although more violent — form of enslaved resistance.
What were rebellions by enslaved people?
200
Unlike in the North, this movement led to many Southern churches becoming even more staunch defenders of slavery.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
300
In explaining his decision to terminate this institution in 1836, Jackson said that "Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress."
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
300
These beliefs in human perfectibility influenced American literature, art, philosophy, and architecture; they were a response to rationalism and the Market Revolution.
What is Romantic?
300
The greater availability and cheaper forms of this helped spread development of the Second Great Awakening.
What is transportation?
300
She fought to improve the conditions for the mentally ill and insane living in asylums and hospitals.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
300
After this slave revolt failed in 1831, Southerners aggressively purged antislavery dissent from the region.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
300
Harriet Jacobs was referring to this sector of Southern society when she wrote, "They exulted in such a chance to exercise a little brief authority, and show their subserviency to the slaveholders; not reflecting that the power which trampled on the colored people also kept themselves in poverty, ignorance, and moral degradation."
What are working/lower-class/non-property-owning white people?
400
One of the primary debates during Jackson's presidency involved the proper role and powers of this.
What is the federal government?
400
This form of American philosophy emerged in the early 19th century, emphasizing the importance of intuition and spiritual connection to the divine; prominent figures in this movement included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
What is Transcendentalism?
400
The western and central districts of New York were known by this term due to the religious fervor they experienced in the early 19th century.
What are the burned-over districts?
400
Many historians would say this advocacy movement was the most significant to emerge from the Age of Reform; key figures included William Lloyd Garrison and the Grimke sisters.
What is the abolitionist movement?
400
Under these types of laws, "No enslaved person could lawfully carry a gun, own property, travel without a written pass, or learn to read and write. Slave gatherings, even for religious services, were forbidden without a white person present."
What were slave codes?
400
Southern manhood was largely shaped by an obsession with this, whereas southern womanhood centered on expectations of this (must name both).
What is honor and sexual purity and/or virtue?
500
In response to this development, South Carolina did "declare and ordain... that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States... are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State."
What is either the Tariff of Abominations, Nullification Crisis, and/or 1828 Tariff?
500
In challenging the notion that American culture was built on these types of ideas, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1835 that "The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
What are liberal social ideas?
500
Compared to the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening typically focused on "the powers of moral agency" instead of this idea.
What is predetermination (or predeterminism)?
500
According to the American Temperance Movement, "the use of such liquor, as a beverage, is not only needless, but injurious to ... the virtue ... of men," meaning that alcohol damaged this aspect of a person's well-being.
What is moral and/or religious?
500
Enslaved people increasingly contributed to the development of this aspect of the country's identity.
What is culture?
500
This ideal strictly limited the ability of wealthy southern women to engage in public life.
What is the cult of domesticity?