This invention was intended to put an end to slavery but suceeded in increasing it
Cotton Gin
100
In the case Worchester v. GA, the Supreme Court ruled that state officials must honor _______________ property rights.
Cherokee
100
The Seneca Falls Conference was the first major event in which reform movement?
Women's Rights
100
Andrew Jackson's commitment to extending democracy primarily benefited
a) Native Americans
b) ordinary citizens
c) wealthy landowners
d) enslaved persons
b) ordinary citizens
200
This person became a war hero after the Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
200
The steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could travel upstream. Steam was also used to power the first locomotive. What was its name?
Tom Thumb
200
This compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state & Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
200
The idea of rehabilitating prisoners rather than just locking them up was the underlying belief in what reform movement?
Prison Reform
200
Who would have been most likely to support Andrew Jackson?
a) a western farmer
b) Henry Clay
c) John Quincy Adams
d) a wealthy banker
a) a western farmer
300
This person led the reform of America's public school system
Horace Mann
300
What was the most cost effective way to ship freight during the mid 1800's?
a) railroad
b) canal
c) river
d) wagon
b) canal
300
After the War of 1812, _______________ increased as well as peoples' sense of pride in their country (nationalism).
manufacturing/industrialization
300
Andrew Jackson's view on this movement was that every white man should have the right to vote.
Suffrage
300
The Erie Canal created a waterway to bring goods from the NW Territories to this eastern city.
New York City
400
This person was willing to sell Louisiana to the United States because he needed money to pay for his war with Great Britain
Napoleon Bonaparte
400
Industrial growth increased when Eli Whitney created the idea of _______________.
interchangeable parts
400
This legislation established the procedures for the orderly expansion of the United States.
Northwest Ordinance
400
Acquiring new territories impacted education because education was seen as a way to socialize or "americanize" this group of people.
immigrants
400
The act of kidnapping sailors conducted by the British Navy and a cause of the War of 1812.
Impressment
500
This person was chosen by the House of Representatives to be President of the United States in 1824
John Quincy Adams
500
The building of so many railroads and canals in the 1830's encouraged _______________ movement.
westward
500
Abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison argued for _______________ emancipation of slavery with no compensation to former slaveholders.
immediate
500
Andrew Jackson reformed government, opening it up to the ordinary citizen, often giving them jobs even if they were not qualified. What is this called?
spoils system
500
This document claims that as long as European powers leave the Western Hemisphere alone, then the US will not involve itself in European affairs.