American Revolution
Thomas Paine argued in this pamphlet that America should become independent.
What is Common Sense?
The idea that women should raise virtuous republican citizens is called this.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Henry Clay’s economic plan that promoted tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank was this.
What is the American System?
acksonian Democracy expanded political participation primarily for this group.
Who are white men?
The election of this president in 1860 triggered Southern secession.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The British tax on printed materials that sparked colonial protests was this act.
What is the Stamp Act?
Alexander Hamilton believed this type of government was necessary to control the people’s passions.
What is a strong central government?
Innovations like steam engines and textile machinery helped cause this economic transformation.
What is the Market Revolution?
Jackson’s opponents claimed he violated the Constitution by using this presidential power too often.
What is the veto?
This compromise admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This famous political cartoon urged colonial unity before the French and Indian War.
What is “Join, or Die”?
These resolutions argued that states could nullify unconstitutional federal laws.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
Canals, roads, and railroads are examples of these improvements.
What are transportation or internal improvements?
The Cherokee were forced west on this tragic journey.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Violent clashes between pro- and anti-slavery settlers occurred in this territory.
What is Kansas / Bleeding Kansas?
Colonial protests against the Stamp Act included this agreement to boycott British goods.
What are nonimportation agreements?
These controversial laws targeted immigrants and critics of the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The Market Revolution contributed to this shift away from household production.
What is industrialization?
Jackson strongly opposed this national financial institution.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
Northerners were outraged by this law requiring the return of escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Colonists argued that these rights were being violated by British taxation policies.
What are natural rights or “no taxation without representation”?
The debate between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans centered heavily on this issue.
What is the balance of power between state and federal governments?
The Market Revolution shifted many Americans from subsistence farming to this type of work.
What is wage labor?
Andrew Jackson’s critics often called him this royal nickname.
Who is King Andrew I?
Hinton Helper argued slavery economically harmed this group.
Who are non-slaveholding southern whites?