This artificial river connected Buffalo and Albany, NY, and provided a continuous waterway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
100
This first large-scale trade union was formed in 1834.
What is National Trades Union?
100
This term for a division of labor had large manufacturers who would pay one family to perform a task, then pass it to another family to complete another task.
What is the "putting-out" system?
100
This National Bank was established in 1816 to curb rampant currency speculation.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
200
This group of thinkers and writers in the Northeast believed that ultimate truth was beyond human grasp.
Who were the Transcendalists?
200
This term stood for the many economic and social changes that took place between 1812 and the 1860s
What is the Market Revolution?
200
This women's activist group had more than 500 local chapters throughout the US by 1840.
What is the American Female Moral Reform Society?
200
This area in upstate NY had many converts who had been inspired by the fiery oration from preachers during the Second Great Awakening.
What is the 'burned-over' district?
200
This group founded by Temperance workers in 1826 promoted laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol.
What is the American Temperance Society?
300
This was the building of roads and canals by the federal and state governments.
What are internal improvements?
300
This organization founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1833 served as a point of contact for escaped slaves.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
300
This 1823 Declaration proclaimed that any European nation attempting to colonize Latin American countries would be treated as a hostile party to the US.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
300
This union of laborers was made up of citywide assemblies and was formed in 1828.
What is the Workingmen's Party?
300
This was a schedule of lectures in which clergy, reformers, socialists, etc...would speak to large crowds in small towns.
What is the lyceum circuit?
400
This group advocated sending all black Americans back to Africa, on a newly established colony of Liberia.
What is the American Colonization Society?
400
This was a period of extreme hunger in Ireland from 1845-1851.
What is the Great Irish Famine?
400
This legal provision in 1836 placed a moratorium on any discussion of abolition in Congress.
What is a 'gag rule'?
400
This economic plan was based on the idea that the federal government should encourage economic enterprise.
What is the American System?
400
This arrangement was brokered by Henry Clay set 36 30' as the divider between free and slave territories, and allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state if Main was allowed to be free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
This line of latitude was specified by Henry Clay in the Missouri Compromise; territories to the north would remain free, south would be slave.
What is 36 30'?
500
This proposal would have enforced gradual emancipation in Missouri.
What is the Tallmadge Amendment?
500
This gathering of women activists in Seneca Falls New York was held in 1848.