Politics & Federal Power
What landmark Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review in 1803?
What is Marbury v. Madison
What massive land deal in 1803 doubled the size of the United States?
What is The Louisiana Purchase
What religious revival movement inspired numerous social reforms in the 19th century?
What is The Second Great Awakening
The forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma Territory is infamously known as what event?
What is The Trail of Tears
What invention by Eli Whitney dramatically increased cotton production and the demand for slaves?
What is The Cotton Gin
What were the two main political parties in the "First Party System"?
What is Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
What U.S. foreign policy statement warned European powers against further colonization in the Americas?
What is The Monroe Doctrine
What cultural ideal defined the sphere of women as the home and family life during the industrial era?
What is The Cult of Domesticity
What law, passed in 1830, authorized the president to negotiate treaties for the removal of Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River?
What is The Indian Removal Act
What major man-made waterway completed in 1825 connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
What is The Erie Canal
Andrew Jackson used his executive power frequently in a political struggle against which federal institution?
What is The Second Bank of the United States
What was the primary British practice that violated U.S. neutrality and was a major cause of the War of 1812?
What is Impressment
The meeting at Seneca Falls in 1848 focused on advancing which specific social reform movement?
What is The Women's Rights Movement (or Women's Suffrage)
What legislative compromise in 1820 temporarily resolved the issue of slavery's expansion by admitting one slave state and one free state simultaneously?
What is The Missouri Compromise
What term describes the factory production model that primarily used young, unmarried women as laborers in textile mills?
What is The Lowell System
The Nullification Crisis centered on South Carolina’s opposition to what federal economic policy?
What is The Tariff of Abominations (or Tariff of 1828/1832)
What ideology held that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand its dominion and spread democracy across the North American continent?
What is The Manifest Destiny
Which radical abolitionist published the newspaper The Liberator and demanded the immediate end of slavery?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
Which Supreme Court case ruled that the Cherokee Nation was a sovereign entity and not subject to Georgia state law, a ruling ignored by Andrew Jackson?
What is Worcester v. Georgia
The Market Revolution shifted the economy from subsistence production to producing goods for sale, fundamentally changing what type of economy?
What is A market economy
What informal system did Andrew Jackson use to reward political supporters with government jobs?
What is The Spoils System
What specific diplomatic event in the early 1800s involved French agents demanding bribes from American commissioners before beginning negotiations, leading to widespread anti-French sentiment in the U.S.?
What is The XYZ Affair
Name the woman who led the movement for reform of asylums and prisons, advocating for better treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix
What line of latitude was established by the Missouri Compromise to divide future free territories from slave territories in the Louisiana Purchase lands?
What is the 36°30′ parallel
What derogatory term did southerners use to describe the tariffs that protected northern industry at the expense of southern agriculture?
What is The Tariff of Abominations