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The Economy/ Government Power
Growth of Democracy
Religion and Reform
The South Expands
Random Things
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 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?



100

These are ideal communities that allow people to live differently and realize their spiritual potential.

What are utopias?

100

The Region of the US that was the most industrialized.

What is the North or Northeast

100

This increased communication and helped to improve business production.

What is the Telegraph

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 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 actually began during the American Revolution but increased during the reform era of the 1803's and was symbolized by the Seneca Falls Convention.

What is the Women's Rights Movemtn

200
This cash crop in the south enabled slavery to grow and spread in the early 19th century.
What is cotton?
200

Wars in Europe avoided by Jefferson and the Democrat-Republicans that allowed him to follow Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality.

What are the Napoleonic Wars

300
This man invented interchangeable parts that was a technological innovation.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300

This is a representation of the peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democrat-Republicans.

What is the Election of Thomas Jefferson or Revolution of 1800?

300

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

What is the 2nd Great Awakening

300

This helped to connect the North and South and allowed the South to meed the demand of raw materials needed in Northern Textile factories.

What is the Cotton Gin

300
This informal agreement in the House automatically tabled antislavery petitions thereby keeping the explosive issue of slavery off the congressional stage.
What is the gag rule?
400

A supreme court case that determined a Law passed by Congress to be unconstitutional and gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.

What is Marbury v. Madison

400

The argument that a state has the right to refuse 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 made foreign products more expensive and encouraged people to buy American products.

What are Tariffs

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 wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
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?