The Early Republic
By leaving office when he did, Washington established the precedent that __________.
Presidents would serve only two terms.
The party that dominated U.S. government through the first two decades of the 19th century was the _________ Party.
Democratic-Republican (or Jeffersonian Republican, or just Republican).
Andrew Jackson won the election of 1828 against _______, after feeling that he'd been cheated of the presidency by a "corrupt bargain" in 1824.
John Quincy Adams
Improvements in manufacturing technology and transportation infrastructure during the early 19th century led to the ____________.
Market Revolution
Slavery became much more profitable after the development of the _________ by Eli Whitney.
cotton gin
The ___________ passed by John Adams were a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Monroe Doctrine said that ___________.
The United States opposed further European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia, leading to the ________.
Expulsion of the Cherokee from the their ancestral land in the "Trail of Tears."
Expulsion of the Cherokee from the their ancestral land in the "Trail of Tears."
In _____________, the Supreme Court ruled that it had the authority to declare laws unconstitutional.
Marbury v. Madison
In 1820, the ___________ sought to deal with the issue of slavery by drawing an east-west line across the continent and saying that slavery would only be allowed south of that line.
Missouri Compromise
Alexander Hamilton's financial program involved ____________. He wanted to finance all of this with a tax on _________.
Establishing a national bank and having the national government assume the states' debts; whiskey.
The War of 1812 was theoretically about __________, but Federalist critics of the war asserted that it really had more to do with __________.
Protecting the rights of American sailors; seizing land from the British and their Native American allies.
The political party the formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson were called the ___________, and took that name because _____________.
Whigs; the name denoted opposition to royal power and they accused Andrew Jackson of acting like a "king."
The _________ were the most successful new religious movement of the early 19th century, although they had to go as far as Utah to establish a religious community of their own.
Mormons/LDS Church
This prominent Southern politician declared slavery "a positive good," and spent much of the early 19th century pushing for the "rights" of the Southern states to keep and extend slavery.
John C. Calhoun
In his Farewell Address, George Washington advised the country to pursue a foreign policy of _________.
Neutrality, avoiding foreign entanglements while trading with everyone.
After the War of 1812, the _________ Party dissolved, but many of its economic ideas were adopted by the other party. The resulting period, free of partisan division, was called the ___________.
Federalist; Era of Good Feelings.
The ___________ was a confrontation in the early 1830s between the federal government and the state of South Carolina over tariff policy and the ability of states to __________.
Nullification Crisis; "nullify" or ignore federal laws to which the state did not consent.
The _________ Movement was an important early focal point for female political activists, and would become important to later movements for women's rights.
Temperance
The Mexican War worsened the sectional conflict between North and South because ___________.
Much more territory was suddenly available for U.S. expansion, but it was almost entirely south of the Missouri Compromise line - which was why the South had been so eager for the war in the first place.
The Election of 1800 was the last presidential election in which ____________.
the presidential candidate with the second-largest number of electoral votes became vice president.
Thomas Jefferson hoped that the Embargo Act of 1807 would ___________, but in reality, it ended up __________.
force Britain and France to recognize American neutrality and stop impressing American sailors; badly damaging the American economy.
Andrew Jackson ________ the Second National Bank, which contributed to __________.
Vetoed/broke up; the Panic of 1837
There are two "American Systems" that characterize early 19th century economic development. One is _____________, while the other is ____________.
a system of heavy federal involvement in the economy, including a national bank and investment in transportation infrastructure; a system of manufacturing relying on mass-produced, interchangeable parts.
The idea of ____________ was to be used to decide whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave or free state, which led to ___________.
popular sovereignty; "Bleeding Kansas"