APUSH 1
Who is the "common man"?
These laws tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government.
What is the Alien & Sedition Acts?
This was a political group that was critical of Andrew Jacksons presidency resembling that of a King.
Who are the Whigs?
This was the U.S. policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is Nativism?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These two countries provided most of the "Old Immigrants" in the early 19th-century.
Who are the Germans and the Irish?
This group supported a stronger national government and ratifying the Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
The failure of the Nat Turner revolt led to the passage of stricter these by many slave state legislatures
What are slave/black codes?
A reform movement that encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home.
What is the temperance movement?
The sentiment that revered women as homemakers, the cultivators of good republican values in young citizens.
What is Republican motherhood?
What is the American System?
What is the Transcendentalism?
This is the name of the agreement struck between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay that stole the 1824 presidential election from Andrew Jackson.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
This was an uprising of Western Pennsylvania farmers that took place between 1791-1794 in response to Alexander Hamilton's excise taxes. It was a key incident in the development of Washington's Presidency
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the women's suffrage movement and helped organize this meeting in New York.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This technology revolutionized the growth and production of cotton, heavily changing the Southern economy.
What is the cotton gin?
This landmark supreme court decision established the principal of Judicial Review
What is the Marbury v Madison?
This was a system that was called "rotation in office" by its supporters, and described the idea that political winners should be able to appoint their supporters into key government offices. A favorite of Jackson.
What is the "spoils system"?
The establishment of a national bank, protective tariffs, and excise taxes on certain commodities were part of which early American politician's big ideas?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Trail of Tears/Indian Removal Act?
What is the Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions?
US to European powers: If you stay out of my business, I'll stay out of yours!
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The undeclared naval war between the US and France from 1798-1800
What is the Quasi-War?
This was the last ditch effort by the colonists to avoid war with Great Britain called?
What is the Olive Branch Petition?