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After the War of 1812, the U.S. experienced a heightened sense of...
What is Nationalism?
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
Irish immigrants in the 1840s left Ireland because of this...
What is the Potato Famine or American Jobs.
100

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

What are communes (utopian communes)?

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?

200
This trade policy was the first of its kind to ever be enacted in U.S. history.
What is the Tariff of 1816?
200
The Ascendance of the masses was marked by the election of...
Who is Jackson?
200
These White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants had a very negative view of foreigners, the Irish in particular.
What are the Nativists?
200

This movement led to countless reform movements in abolition, drinking, and education.

What is the Second Great Awakening?

200
Brigham Young led this religious group to Utah in the 1830s.
Who are the Mormons?
300
This economic plan called for the creation of roads/canals, a protective tariff, and a central banking system.
What is Henry Clay's American System?
300

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?

300
Slavery revived and expanded due to this technological invention.
What is Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin?
300

This man is the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Who is Joseph Smith?

300
Jackson's appeal to the common man is referred to as this.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
400
Among other things, this convention demanded a 2/3 vote in congress before war could be declared.
What is the Hartford Convention?
400
Meant to protect Northern Industry, this bill made imports much more expensive. This was especially harmful to the South.
What is the Tariff of 1828?
400

These organizations enable workers to collectively bargain with their employers for better hours and wages.

What are unions Commonwealth v. Hunt)?

400
This organization sought to make alcohol illegal. It had a very large female membership base.
What is the American Temperance Union?
400

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
Banned slavery north of the 36 degree line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500

The argument that a state has the right to void within its borders, a law passed by Congress.

What is nullification (When South Carolina decided not to enforce the Tariff of 1828. Military intervention and the Tariff of 1832 put an end to the Nullification Crisis)?

500
Most railroads at this time in U.S. History were located in this region of the U.S.
What is the North or Northeast?
500

This reform movement was supported by Christians of all colors and called for the immediate emancipation of slaves.

What is abolitionism?

500
Religious belief that religious and political groups corrupted man. Observation was the key to finding yourself spiritually.
What is Transcendentalism?