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100
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?
100
This is another term for the right to vote.
What is franchise?
100
These are ideal communities that allow people to live differently and realize their spiritual potential.
What are utopias?
100
Slavery subsidized an elegant lifestyle for a white elite and provided tutelage for genetically inferior Africans is one of the ways that southern apologists claimed that slavery was this.
What is a positive good?
100

A religious movement that encouraged people to improve their lives which led to the start of various Reform Movements.

What is the Second Great Awakening?

200
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 Waltham-Lowell System?
200
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?
200
This man is the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Who is Joseph Smith?
200
This cash crop in the south enabled slavery to grow and spread in the early 19th century.
What is cotton?
200

One of the first abolitionists who used fierce arguments to fight against slavery and demanded the immediate end to slavery.

Who is William Lloyd Garrison?

300
This man invented interchangeable parts that was a technological innovation.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
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?
300
This utopia community embraced "complex marriages" and turned to perfectionism in a belief that people could aspire to sinless perfection in their earthly lives.
What is the Oneida community?
300
The term refers to the belief that slaves are tangible personal property of their owners.
What is chattel?
300

A transportation route that connected New York to the Midwest and helped improve industrialization and migration.

What is the Erie Canal?

400
These organizations enable workers to collectively bargain with their employers for better hours and wages.
What are unions?
400
The argument that a state has the right to void within its borders, a law passed by Congress.
What is nullification?
400
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?
400

An issue debated between the North and South. The north favored it because it made foreign products more expensive and encouraged people to buy American products.

What is a tariff?

400
This was an informal network of whites and free blacks that assisted fugitives by providing lodging, food and support.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
This was made up of farmers, mechanics, manufacturers, and traders who carry on professionally the ordinary operations of buying, selling, and exchanging merchandise.
What is the middle class?
500
This system was destroyed during Jackson's presidency in keeping with his belief in a laissez-faire government.
What is the American System?
500
This reform movement was supported by christians of all colors and called for the immediate emancipation of slaves.
What is abolitionism?
500

This black abolitionist escaped slavery and wrote a famous Narrative about his experience.

Who is Frederick Douglass?

500
This caused the southern states to threaten to nullify and/ or succeed from the union while Jackson was president.
What is the tariff of abominations?