He supported Manifest Destiny and signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He also sent Commodore Matthew Perry into Japan to open the country to diplomacy and commerce.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
100
He believed in the Natural Law, which altered society's view of a social contract and influenced people and documents like Benjamin Franklin and the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
100
After this, the South began to secede from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860? Or Lincoln?
100
This pamphlet called for immediate independence from Britain and helped weaken resistance in the Continental Congress towards independence.
What is Common Sense?
100
By 1850, new technology, like John Deere's steel-plow and Cyrus McCormack's mechanical reaper, increased harvest sizes, saved on labor, and made selling farm goods to international markets possible for this business.
What is agriculture?
200
He was president when the Dred Scott decision was announced and he denied the legal right of states to secede from the Union, but believed the federal government could not legally prevent them.
Who is James Buchanan?
200
The idea of Deism and reasoning moved throughout Europe and influenced the New World's culture, intellectualism, and society in this time period.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
This address given by William Jennings Bryan during the national convention of the Democratic Party criticized the gold standard and supported the coinage of silver.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
200
She was an early activist in the feminist movement and was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
This was created after the war of 1812 due to increasing nationalism and was a group of American landscape painters.
What is the Hudson River School?
300
He was the only president elected to two non-consecutive terms.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
300
These people believed that people were capable of unity with God without the help of the institutional church and saw church as reactionary and stifling to self-expression.
Who are transcendentalists?
300
This was said to have happened when Jackson won the popular vote but did not win the majority of the electoral vote; Clay influenced the House of Representatives to give John Quincy Adams the presidency.
What is the Corrupt Bargain of 1824?
300
He used his writings to expose issues in the US society. His book The Jungle led to food inspection reforms and the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
He was a French civil servant who traveled to and wrote about the United States in his Democracy in America; he wrote of his appreciation of the democratic society.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
400
During his term, he removed federal troops from the South and dealt with the railroad strike in 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
This is the theory that wealth was based on the survival of the fittest and was based of Charles Darwin's work. Wealthy industrial leaders used it to justify differences in classes.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
During this, Lincoln ran against General McClellan, who labeled the Civil War as a failure; those sympathetic to the Southern cause were called Copperheads.
What is the Northern Election of 1864?
400
He was a transcendentalist who protested unjust laws, slavery, and the Mexican War; he demonstrated against these issues by refusing to pay his poll tax. His ideology later influenced Gandhi and MLK Jr.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
This allowed legal searching of homes, warehouses, and shops to stop colonial smuggling.
What are the Writs of Assistance?
500
He submitted a treaty to annex Hawaii and signed many appropriations bills for naval improvement and internal improvements.
Who is Benjamin Harrison?
500
This was the belief in the innate goodness of man, nature, and traditional values and emphasized emotions and feelings over rationality.
What is romanticism?
500
This happened after Tilden won the popular vote, but neither Tilden nor Hayes had won the electoral vote because 3 states were in dispute.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
In 1886, a nature organization was named after this romantic-era artist that painted nature, especially birds and other animals.
Who is John James Audubon?
500
This was written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and encouraged those in favor of American imperialism and seaward expansion; it justified the US taking the Philippines.
What is The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783?