Transportation & Industrialization
This canal, funded by the government, became the first major American canal.
This canal, funded by the government, became the first major American canal.
These immigrants mainly settled in northern cities and faced strong anti-Catholic prejudice.
Who were the Irish?
This president used the spoils system to reward political supporters with government jobs.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This expedition strengthened U.S. claims to the West and explored the Louisiana Territory.
What was the Lewis and Clark expedition?
This British practice involved forcing American sailors into the Royal Navy.
What was impressment?
These transportation systems became concentrated mainly in the North, Northeast, and Midwest during the early 1800s.
What were railroads and canals?
These immigrants settled mostly in the Midwest and rural farming communities.
Who were the Germans?
This crisis began when South Carolina attempted to nullify a federal tariff.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
This doctrine warned European nations not to interfere in the Americas.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
These were the three major causes of the War of 1812.
What were impressment, interference with trade, and British support for Native Americans?
These advantages made railroads more effective than canals.
What were speed and year-round use?
This belief promoted the idea that women should focus on home and family life.
What was the “Cult of Domesticity”?
This compromise tariff helped end the Nullification Crisis in 1833.
What was Henry Clay’s Compromise Tariff?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review in 1803.
What was Marbury v. Madison?
This meeting of New England Federalists opposed the War of 1812 and discussed constitutional changes.
What was the Hartford Convention?
This inventor developed the telegraph.
Who was Samuel Morse?
This movement involved hostility toward immigrants, especially Irish Catholics.
(DOUBLE POINTS) What was nativism?
This law forced Native Americans westward and led to the Trail of Tears.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
These Supreme Court cases strengthened federal power over the states during the Marshall Court era.
What were McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and banned slavery north of 36°30′.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This inventor created the cotton gin and promoted interchangeable parts in manufacturing.
Who was Eli Whitney?
These young women worked in Massachusetts textile mills during the Industrial Revolution.
Who were the Lowell girls?
This 1840 election used mass campaigning and portrayed its candidate as a frontier hero.
What was the Election of 1840?
This Chief Justice strengthened the authority of the Supreme Court and federal government.
Who was John Marshall?
This proposed amendment attempted to limit slavery in Missouri but failed in the Senate.
What was the Tallmadge Amendment?