politics
A war between Great Britain and the United States over the impressing of sailors, British native aid, and the British seizure of American ships.
What is the War of 1812?
The 1807 act that outlawed the sailing of American ships to foreign ports to avoid impressment, but resulted in decimating the economy
What is the 1807 Embargo Act?
This system connected the western frontier to the rest of the nation and increased efficiency of trade and number of towns.
What are railroads?
This group of people emigrated to the United States in mass numbers due to a famine and faced discrimination in the cities that they worked in.
What are Irish immigrants?
The invention created by John Deere to help better plow the land.
What is the steel plow?
The meeting of federalists to compile a list of complaints for the ruling republican party seen as treachery.
What is the Hartford Convention?
Tariff in 1828 that raised the tariff on imported goods that helped the north but harmed the south; the south called it unconstitutional and an attack on states' rights.
What is the tariff of abominations?
1820 compromise that tried to resolve the issue of slavery in Missouri that stated that all states north of the 36th parallel were free states and Missouri would enter as a slave state.
What is the Missouri compromise?
The xenophobic idea that your country should primarily focus on the interests of those native-born and disregard people from foreign countries.
What is nativism?
Wires that transmit signals that helped communication progress throughout the nation.
What is the telegraph?
A declaration by a president in 1823 that warned foreign powers to stay out of the western hemisphere or be met with military force.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The economic program put forth by Henry Clay that supported a national bank, high tariffs, and internal infrastructure.
What is the American system?
A 363 mile canal that connected New York City to the Great Lakes that created a greater flow of trade and towns.
What is the Erie Canal?
A religious revival that emphasized good deeds and tolerance as a method to salvation.
What is the second great awakening?
This invention made the distribution and creation of literary works more efficient.
What is the printing press?
Political era in which ordinary people were motivated to participate in elections, go into office, and live up to their potential.
What is the age of Jackson?
The Supreme Court case that stated how regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government.
What is Gibbons v Ogden?
The treaty that sold the remaining portion of Florida to the US and defined the border of Mexico.
What is the Adam-Onis treaty?
The philosophical and literary movement set forth by Thoreau and Emerson in which a focus on nature and a simple life was realized.
What is transcendentalism?
Reform set forth in efforts to have all children educated in a common place regardless of social or economic background.
What is common school?
Political battle between President Jackson, Henry Clay, and Nicolas Biddle over the renewal of the US bank, which was eventually vetoed by Jackson.
What is the bank war?
Economic downturn during Jackson's presidency due to the failed US bank and specie circular.
What is the financial panic of 1837?
Act removed 5 major native american nations and relocated them to lands west of the Mississippi river; resulted in the trail of tears.
What is the indian removal act?
The idea that women were meant to be caregivers in the home enforced by social customs
What is the cult of domesticity?
Reform group created by William Garrison that worked for abolition and argued that there could be no union in a place with slaveholders.
What is the american anti-slavery society?