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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

Known as the "President for the common man"

Who is Andrew Jackson?

100
These are ideal communities that allow people to live differently and realize their spiritual potential.
What are utopias?
100

Widely held belief in the 19th century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America. 

What is Manifest Destiny?

100

The national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. ... The “era” proved to be a temporary lull in personal and political leadership clashes while new issues were emerging.

What is the Era of Good Feelings?

200

a canal in New York between Albany and Buffalo, connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie: completed in 1825, made New York City rich

What is the Erie Canal?

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
This man facilitated the settlement of Texas by Americans in the 1830s.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
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

a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

300

This law led to the Trail of Tears.

What is the Indian Removal Act?

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

Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835. During this revival, meetings were held in small towns and large cities throughout the country, and the unique frontier institution known as the camp meeting began.

What is the Second Great Awakening?

400

Ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Mexico losing about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

What is the Mexican-American War?

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

An opinion about women in the 1800s that believed women should stay at home and should not do any work outside of the home.

What was the cult of womanhood or cult of domesticity?

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

The annexation of this state ultimately led to the Mexican-American War. 

What is Texas?

500

This caused the southern states to threaten to nullify and/ or secede from the union while Jackson was president.

What is the tariff of abominations? (Tariff of 1828)