Constitution and the Supreme Court
Federalists believed in what kind of interpretation of the constitution?
loose
Why did President Thomas Jefferson agree to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory despite not attaining Congressional approval?
The land was only temporarily offered, $15 million was an amazing deal, Pres TJ wanted the port of New Orleans to make trade cheaper and Louisiana for agricultural expansion
How did participation in democracy change in the early 1800s?
End of property requirement for voting
Universal White Male Suffrage
This secret network of whites and free blacks helped lead thousands to freedom.
Underground Railroad
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the women's suffrage movement and helped organize this meeting in New York.
Seneca Falls Convention
This Eli Witney invention increased slavery
cotton gin
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
Marbury v Madison
Political allies of Jefferson and Madison. They feared a powerful, central government. During the Era of Good Feelings they were the only remaining political party in the US.
Democratic-Republicans
What new political party was formed by Andrew Jackson's political ascent and the expansion of voting rights to poor white men?
The Jacksonian Democrats
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
Trail of Tears/Indian Removal Act
Cult of domesticity
women-private/moral sphere
men-public sphere
Man-made waterway completed in 1825 that helped connect The Great Lakes region of the United States to Atlantic trade, transporting goods East to West.
Erie Canal
Which clause of the Constitution allows the federal government to stretch or increase its authority over the US during times of need?
Necessary and Proper Clause or Elastic Clause
Identify the three components of Henry Clay's American system to improve the US national economy
support the Bank of the US, improvements to infrastructure, and protective tariffs
What was Pres. Jackson's response to the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Cherokee and against the Indian Removal Act in Worchester v Georgia?
He ignored the Supreme Court and ordered troops to remove the Cherokee anyways leading to the Trail of Tears
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’ .
Missouri Compromise
A reform movement that encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home, largely led by women
What is Temperance Movement
transformed transportation during the mid 1800s
steam enginge
This SCOTUS case asserted federal supremacy over the states, in this case concerning the Bank of the US.
McCulloch v Maryland
Which nation won the War of 1812 and what territory was gained?
Neither side and no boundaries were changed
Why did South Carolina threatened to secede during the Nullification Crisis of 1832?
SC threatened to secede over the Tariff of Abominations (Tariff of 1828 & 1832)
This was the decision in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worchester v Georgia?
The Indian Removal Act was unconstitutional
A religious movement rooted in the powerful emotional message about how hard work, individual achievement, and devotion to God can better your life in the early 1800s
The Second Great Awakening
Devised by Eli Whitney in 1801 to more efficiently make rifles, allowing unskilled workers to produce large numbers of weapons quickly and at lower cost.
Interchangeable Parts
Head of the supreme court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalists policies (strong national government)
John Marshall
Describe the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine speech by Pres. Monroe to Congress in 1820.
To warn European against further colonization in the Western Hemisphere, to increase US nationalism and influence in international politics, to increase US authority in the Western Hemisphere and gain friendly relations with independent Latin American countries
How did Jackson destroy the national bank?
Vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the US
Reorganized federal funds from national banks into pet banks in the states
Famous slave rebellion in the antebellum south
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The belief that people could stretch beyond their known capabilities. Truth could be discovered by observing nature and practicing self discipline and reliance.
Transcendentalism
In what factory system did women begin to organize for better pay and working conditions?
The Lowell Textile Mills