Jacksonian Democracy and States' Rights
A political movement that celebrataed the common man and defended the will of the people, named for President Andrew Jackson.
What is Jacksonian democracy?
A law that ended the U.S. government's earlier policy of respecting the rights of Native Americans to remain on their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The idea that the United States had the right and the obligation to expand its territory across North America to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
An armed conflict between the U.S. and Mexico sparked by the U.S. annexation of Texas and disputes over the Texas-Mexico border.
What is the Mexican-American War?
To permanently move to another country?
What is immigrate?
A network of people who worked together to help African Americans escape from slavery from the Southern United States to the Northern United States, Canada, or South/Central America before the Civil War.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A voluntary association of workers that uses its power to negotiate better working conditions.
What is a labor union?
A hospital dedicated to treating the mentally ill.
What is an asylum?
The act of formally withdrawing from an organization, a nation, or any other group in order to be independent.
What is secession?
The area of land in present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were forced to migrate?
What is Indian Territory?
The American fur trappers and explorers who began to explore and move west.
What are mountain men?
A sale of land in 1853 from Mexico to the United States that established the current US southwestern border.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
To move away from a country in order to live in another.
What is emigrate?
A person who wants to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
The 19th century reform movement that encouraged the reduction or elimination of alcoholic beverage consumption.
What is the temperance movement?
An educational reform movement in the 1830's that promoted free public schools funded by property taxes and managed by local governments.
What is the common school movement?
The term used by southerners to refer to the Tariff of 1828 because it stirred feelings of disgust and hatred.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
The route the Cherokees and other Native Americans took during their forced migration from the southeast United States to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
A large group of covered wagons that traveled together across the North American continent as American pioneers moved westward.
What is a wagon train?
Best known as the 11th U.S. President who led the nation to a massive territorial expansion of over one million square miles, fulfilling "Manifest Destiny". He achieved this by annexing Texas, settling the Oregon boundary dispute, and winning the Mexican-American War, which added California and the Southwest to the US.
Who is James K. Polk?
A reason why people immigrate, such as a lack of economic opportunity or freedom in one country and the promise of a better life in another.
What is push-pull factor?
The ending of slavery.
What is emancipation?
An informal religious gathering meant to inspire people to join the faith, often held outdoors or in tents.
What is a revival meeting?
Housework in another person's home, performed as a job.
What is domestic service?
The practice of rewarding political backers with government jobs.
What is the spoils system?
Known as the first president elected by mass popular vote rather than party elites, he emphasized the "common man," significantly expanded presidential power, authorized the devastating Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears), killed the National Bank, and forcibly resolved the Nullification Crisis.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Self-reliant independence.
What is individualism?
Formally reject a decision or proposal made by a legislature.
What is veto?
The inferior section of a ship housing passengers who pay the lowest fare for the journey.
What is steerage class?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
An American Protestant movement based on revival meetings and a direct and emotional relationship with the Judeo-Christian god.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
A political party formed in the 1850's to oppose immigation, also called the American party.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
A doctrine that said a state could nullify or reject a federal law they felt was unconstitutional, held by some southern politicians before the Civil War.
What is doctrine of nullification?
The sixth president of the United States and the Secretary of State who formulated the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Political party formed to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson, who the party believed had exceeded his power as president.
What is the Whig Party?
A failed 1846 proposal by Pennsylvania Democrat David Wilmot to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
A person who believes native-born people should be favored more than immigrants.
What is a nativist?
An 1848 women's rights convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in Seneca Falls, New York.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
An intellectual and social movement of the 1830s and 1840s that called for rising above society's expectations.
What is transcendentalism?
A renowned American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Civil War spy known as the "Moses of her people." She gained fame for her role as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?