Jeffersonian & Madisonian America
This 1803 Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
He was the President during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
This political party opposed Jackson and supported Henry Clay’s American System.
What is the Whig Party?
This invention made cotton profitable and revitalized slavery in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This reformer led efforts to improve treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This event exposed the limits of Jefferson’s strict constitutional views despite its economic benefits.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1814 gathering of Federalists called for constitutional amendments and hinted at secession.
What is the Hartford Convention?
📣 DAILY DOUBLE! This event saw South Carolina threaten secession over tariff policy.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This massive internal improvement linked the Great Lakes to New York City and revolutionized trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
This 1848 meeting issued the Declaration of Sentiments demanding gender equality.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
📣 DAILY DOUBLE! This law passed under Jefferson halted all foreign trade and backfired economically.
What is the Embargo Act of 1807?
This U.S. victory inspired the writing of The Star-Spangled Banner.
What is the defense of Fort McHenry?
Jackson defied the Supreme Court’s ruling in this case protecting Cherokee lands.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This communication invention by Samuel Morse increased the speed of news and coordination.
What is the telegraph?
📣 DAILY DOUBLE! This radical abolitionist published The Liberator and called for immediate emancipation.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This diplomatic move under Madison reopened trade with Britain and France, but backfired when France manipulated it.
What is Macon’s Bill No. 2?
This battle, fought after the peace treaty was signed, made Andrew Jackson a national hero.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Jackson killed the national bank using this method involving state-level financial institutions.
What are pet banks?
This labor system recruited young women to work in New England textile mills.
What is the Lowell System?
This transcendentalist author of Walden also supported civil disobedience against unjust laws.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This Native American confederacy leader was defeated at Tippecanoe, weakening resistance in the Northwest.
Who is Tecumseh?
📣 DAILY DOUBLE! Name two major effects of the War of 1812 on U.S. nationalism and politics.
What are (any two): increased nationalism, demise of the Federalist Party, rise of war heroes like Jackson, and greater U.S. independence from Europe?
This document justified Jackson’s use of federal force during the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Proclamation to the People of South Carolina?
📣 DAILY DOUBLE! Explain one way the Market Revolution altered gender roles in American society.
What is: increased separation of work/home spheres (cult of domesticity); or shift of women’s labor to the domestic sphere as men entered wage labor economy?
This religious revivalist from New York’s “burned-over district” emphasized individual salvation and sparked widespread reform.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?