The Economy
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 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
This author was a part of the transcendentalist movement and wrote "Leaves of Grass."
Who is Walt Whitman?
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
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
The term refers to the belief that slaves are tangible personal property of their owners.
What is chattel?
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
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
This belief generally ignored the doctrines of original sin and predestination and preachers didn't use biblical passages that encouraged unthinking obedience to authority.
What is Black Protestantism?
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?