People
Conservatives and popular with pro-Bank people and plantation owners. They mainly came from the National Republican Party, which was once largely Federalists. They took their name from the British political party that had opposed King George during the American Revolution. Their policies included support of industry, protective tariffs, and Clay's American System. They were generally upper class in origin. Included Clay and Webster.
What are Whigs?
Idealistic and impractical communities. Who, Rather than seeking to create an ideal government or reform the world, withdrew from the sinful, corrupt world to work their miracles in microcosm, hoping to imitate the elect state of affairs that existed among the Apostles.
What are Utopian Communities?
1807 act which ended all of America's importation and exportation. Jefferson hoped the act would pressure the French and British to recognize U.S. neutrality rights in exchange for U.S. goods. Really, however, just hurt Americans and our economy and got repealed in 1809.
What is The Embargo Act?
Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers to live in around the mills
What is the Lowell System?
A process of protecting, either formally (with laws) or informally (with social values), the primacy of a certain cultural system against influences (real or imagined) from another culture.
What is Cultural Nationalism?
A leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening, he preached that each person had capacity for spiritual rebirth and salvation and that through individual effort could be saved. His concept of "utility of benevolence" proposed the reformation of society as well as of individuals.
Who is Charles Finney?
A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country.
What is the American Colonization Society?
Took place in upperstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?
An economic regime pioneered by Henry Clay which created a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building. This approach was intended to allow the United States to grow and prosper by themselves This would eventually help America industrialize and become an economic power.
What is the American System?
Instead of higher levels of production & income, it came out with the exact opposite. Countries imposed tariff barriers, import quotas, import prohibitions, politicians hoped to achieve economic self sufficiency. It backfired, everything provoked retaliation from other countries
What is Economic Nationalism?
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
Founded by Thomas Cole, first native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River.
What is the Hudson River School?
1823 - Declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S. It also declared that a New World colony which has gained independence may not be recolonized by Europe. (It was written at a time when many South American nations were gaining independence). Only England, in particular George Canning, supported the Monroe Doctrine. Mostly just a show of nationalism, the doctrine had no major impact until later in the 1800s.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands.
What is Cult of Domesticity?
Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West). This can lead to conflict.
What is Sectionalism?
Naturalist who painted wild fowl in their natural habitat. Birds of America received considerable popularity.
Who is John Jay Audubon?
A 363 mile canal stretching from Albany, New York on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie. It was proposed in 1807 and started in 1817 to connect New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. The Canal allowed for New York City to become most important United States port, population surges in New York, and cheaper transportation costs between eastern and western states. It opened on October 26, 1825, before railways and steamships had been invented, making it the best option for bulk shipping.
1842 between the US and the Brits, settled boundary disputes in the North West, fixed most borders between US and Canada, talked about slavery and excretion.
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
Dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions. Resulted from thee combo impact of the increased output of farms and factories, the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants, and the dev of a transportation network of roads, canals and RR.
What is the Market Revolution?
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
What is Urbanization?
A term used in politics for someone favoring war in a debate over whether to go to war, or whether to continue or escalate an existing war. War hawks are the opposite of war doves. The terms are derived through analogy with the birds of the same name: hawks are predators which attack and feed on other animals, whereas doves mostly eat seeds and fruit, and are historically a symbol of peace.
Who were the War Hawks?
An over two thousand mile long trail that brutally carried American settlers from the Midwest to new settlements in Oregon, California, and Utah.
What is Oregon Trail?
1832-33 was over the tariff policy of the Fed. Gov't, during Jackson's presidency which prompted South Carolina to threaten the use of nullification, possible secession and Andrew Jackson's determination to end with military force.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
First national road building project funded by Congress. It made travel and transportation of goods much easier because it was one continuous road that was in good condition.
What is National Road?
The act of enslaving a (usually african) person and forcing work on a plantation or other institution.