The West
Politics
Thinkers
Industry
Slavery
100
This state was an independent republic from 1836-1845.
What is Texas?
100
Known as Ole Hickory, the 7th president of the United States is best known today for his populism and oppression of Native Americans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
Poet, author, and Transcendentalist thinker.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
100
The transition to new manufacturing processes, including the movement from handmade goods to machine production. Coincidentally, we can trace the beginnings of human-caused climate change to this period.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
In 1820 Maine was admitted as a free state in this historic agreement named after a new state also with an "M" name.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Eventually settled by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, this state joined the union after its members agreed to give up plural marriage.
What is Utah?
200
You won't find whiskey or beer in the fridges of folks who practice this ideology.
What is temperance?
200
After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. 
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
Also known as laissez-faire, meaning "let it be" capitalism, this form of hands-off economic policy was favored by the Democrats.
What is classical liberalism?
200
He was the leader of the largest slave rebellion in the 19th century United States.
Who is Nat Turner?
300
Also known as the Bear Flag Republic, this state joined the union in 1850.
What is California?
300
Famed for the nullification crisis, his profoundly racist and anti-federalist attitudes, and the unfortunate similarity to your APUSH teacher's full name.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
Mother Ann Lee founded this utopian community, a Christian sect who eschewed marriage and sexual relations and today has only 3 surviving members.
Who are the Shakers?
300
The Waltham-Lowell factory system employed mostly this type of worker.
Who were young, single women?
300
Harriet Tubman took runaways on this metaphorical locomotive.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
Because the enormous underground aquifer was yet to be discovered, the Great Plains were thought ill-suited for agriculture and called this inhospitable name.
What is the Great American Desert?
400
This party has everything to do with Henry Clay and the American System and nothing to do with lace fronts.
What is the Whig Party?
400
The great wave of Christian revivalism that swept the country following the American Revolution, it is credited in part with advancing the belief in the power of the individual.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
The inventor of the telegraph and the eponymous code.
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
400
Fiery and uncompromising editor of The Liberator, the premier abolitionist publication.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
The dictatorial leader and generalissimo of the Mexican Army during the U.S. - Mexico War
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
500
Andrew Jackson's political party, this party survives to the modern day, albeit with a strikingly different ideology.
What is the Democratic Party?
500
Women including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton convened here to open the movement for women's suffrage.
What is Seneca Falls?
500
An early economic crisis that signaled the end of a business cycle and inspiring the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
What is the Panic of 1819?
500
The great wave of Christian revivalism that swept the country following the American Revolution, it is credited in part with advancing the belief in the power of the individual.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
600
Thousands of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw died along the way to Indian Territory, now a state known as
What is Oklahoma?
600
This tax on imports famously brought on the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
600
The mother of Mary Shelley was also the author of the treatise, The Vindication of the Rights of Women
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
600
His cotton gin helped industrialize the cotton industry and revived the slave trade.
Who is Eli Whitney?
600
The massively profitable and exploitative relationship between Southern plantations, shipping merchants, and Northern investors, and factory owners.
What is the cotton complex?
700
The widely-held belief that the United States and its people were destined by God to spread their civilization across the continent to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
700
The idea that all adult citizens should be able to vote.
What is universal suffrage?
700
The Female Moral Reform Society, founded by this Christian revivalist in order to combat prostitution.
What is the Female Moral Reform Society?
700
Industrialized printing technology + a literate public allowed for the breathtaking spread of these cheap newspapers and I mean CHEAP.
What are the penny papers?
700
The idea that enslaved persons is movable property and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved.
What is the chattel principle?
800
The political slogan of James K. Polk's 1844 presidential campaign.
What is "Fifty-four or Fight!"?
800
This "dishonest deal" helped elect John Q. Adams president in 1824 and Andrew Jackson never forgot it.
What is the corrupt bargain?
800
Poets such as Longfellow, Poe, and Whitman are exemplary of this movement, which emphasized the beauty of human emotion and the natural world.
What is romanticism?
800
The inventor of the machine harvestor and one of the first multi-millionaires in the U.S.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
800
Jumping the broom is one such example of this term used to describe the combining of belief systems.
What is syncretism?
900
In addition to supplementing indigenous diets, this shaggy roaming bovine played a central role in the religion and culture of the Plains Indians.
What is the buffalo/bison?
900
Characterized by rapidly rising voter turnout and intense loyalty to parties, the rivalry between Democrats and Whigs between the 1820s and 1850s is known as this.
What is the Second Party System?
900
Transcendental poet and essayist who advocated for civil disobedience to unjust laws and respect for the individual and nature.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
900
This idea holds that somethings worth is measured by the amount of labor used to produce it.
What is the labor theory of value?
900
The foremost church among Free Black Protestants.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church?
1000
These people adapted to the introduction of horses and guns and conquered much of the plains in the early 18th century.
Who are the Comanche?
1000
The corrupt system in which jobs are handed out to loyal supporters after a president or governor takes office.
What is the spoils system?
1000
Author of An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a call for black unity and self-help in the fight against the oppressive and unjust slavery
Who is David Walker?
1000
This massive waterworks was carved by Irish immigrants, cut transportation costs by 95% between New York and the West (by way of the Great Lakes)
What is the Erie Canal?
1000
This Supreme Court justice, originally appointed by Andrew Jackson, would eventually issue the abysmal decision in the Dred Scott case.
Who is Roger Taney?