The Economy
This happened between 1790 and 1860 and enabled merchants and manufacturers to reorganize work routines, build factories, and exploit a wide range of natural resources.
What is the Industrial Revolution or Market Revolution?
A term to describe taking property qualifications away as restriction on voting.
What is universal white male suffrage?
This pseudoscience became the principal argument for white slave owners to use when suppressing African Americans.
What is phrenology?
This author was a part of the transcendentalist movement and wrote "Leaves of Grass."
Who is Walt Whitman?
This was a cheaper source of labor and provided workers with boarding rooms, enforced strict curfews, evening lectures and cultural activities, prohibited alcoholic beverages and required regular church attendance.
What is the Lowell System?
This is when after winning an election politicians reward their supporters by giving them jobs and positions within the government.
What is the Spoils System?
This term was used after the election of 1824 was won by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay was made his Secretary of State.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
This movement called for the abolishment of alcohol, especially for men, due to the rise of domestic abuse and high bar debts.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This political party, seen as the successor of the Federalist Party, advocated a strong federal government and was supported by mostly northerners and business owners.
What is the Whig Party?
This legislation, pushed by Jefferson, prevented the US from trading with nations that were at conflict (like Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars).
What is the Embargo Act?
The argument that a state has the right to void within its borders, a law passed by Congress. For example the Tariff Act of 1828 passed an extra tax on slave produced goods.
What is nullification or nullification theory?
This is a belief that individuals could be remade only be discovering their original relation with Nature and entering into a mystical union with the currents of Universal Being.
What is Transcendentalism?
This abolitionist was a former slave, who could read and write. His biography, published in 1848, became a centerpiece to the abolition movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This was a tax on imports, encouraged by Whigs like Henry Clay, to protect US manufacturing from competition from Europe.
What is a protective tariff?
This system, advocated by Henry Clay, would make the federal government a chief investor in infrastructure development and open a 2nd Bank of the US.
What is the American System?
This reform movement was supported by christians of all denominations and called for the immediate emancipation of slaves.
What is abolitionism?
This novel, published in 1852, provided many white readers with an accurate depiction of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This ideology became popularized with western migration, and justified hatred of Mexicans, Chinese, and Irish immigrants who were seen as job competition.
What is nativism?