Era of Good Feelings
the ______ ______, named after our 5th president, essentially told Europeans to stay out of the business of the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Eli Whitney's invention that led to a boom in cotton planting
What is the cotton gin?
The Nullification Crisis was caused by this state attempting to nullify a federal tariff and threatening to secede from the United States?
What is South Carolina?
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison
What is abolitionism?
this caused an influx of people to California, all trying to get rich quick
What is gold?
the most photographed American of the 19th century, one historian called him the "MLK and then some of the 19th century"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Under the Adams-Onis Treaty, the U.S. gained Florida from Spain. The Adams of the title was _____, Monroe's Secretary of State at the time.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
this road connected Maryland to Illinois; it even runs through Englewood and Vandalia, Ohio!
What is the National Road?
Andrew Jackson wanted to eliminate this financial institution because he thought it was corrupt and only represented the interests of the wealthy and elite
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
Seneca Falls
What is women's rights?
the idea that it was America's divine right to expand westward all the way to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?
there were not actually subterranean train tracks on this journey; 20,000 people made it to freedom along this network of safe houses, guides, and other sympathetic peoples
What is the Underground Railroad?
The purpose of this system of Henry Clay's was to strengthen the United States economically through protective tariffs, a new national bank, and investments in new and improved modes of transportation
What is the American System?
this artificial waterway (be specific!), dug across northern New York connecting the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connected the East to the Midwest, making it easier to ship goods and raw materials between the two regions
What is the Erie Canal?
under this system, campaign workers and loyal Democrats were given jobs in Jackson's administration... whether they were qualified or not
What is the Spoils System?
a period of religious revival, camp meetings, inspired other reform movements
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
the issue that kept Texas from becoming annexed right after it achieved independence from Mexico
What is slavery?
His rebellion where more than 50 whites were killed led to worsening punishments and stricter laws for many enslaved people
Who is Nat Turner?
Under the Missouri Compromise, all western states north of this line of latitude would be free and south of it would be slave
What is 36'30?
this was the nation's first railroad, built in 1828
What is the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad?
This treaty, named after the Cherokee capital, was signed between the U.S. and some Cherokee offered the Cherokee money and land in Oklahoma in exchange for their land in Georgia. This was very unpopular among most Cherokees and played a role in the Trail of Tears.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
"Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine."
What is temperance?
this president of the United States is often blamed for fabricating a cause for the Mexican-American War by sending U.S. soldiers into disputed territory between the Rio Grande and Nueces Rivers
Who is James K. Polk?
This law made it easier for Southerners to go after escaped slaves in the North, leading to even free Blacks being fearful for their lives and greatly angering northern abolitionists
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
In McCullough v. Maryland, the Supreme Court decided that Congress had this kind of power under the Constitution to enact a national bank
What is implied?
the name of this factory system, started in Massachusetts near Boston, recruited young farmwomen to work in water-powered textile mills
What is the Lowell System?
Andrew Jackson refused to enforce this Supreme Court decision that would have benefited the Cherokee
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, importance of nature, non-conformity, self-reliance, free thought
What is Transcendentalism?
the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War, establishing the Rio Grande as the border between the U.S. and Mexico, adding California and New Mexico to the U.S., and seeing Mexico renounce all claims to Texas
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
After cotton became king and it was against the law to bring slaves into the United States from outside of the country, slaves were often taken from the upper South and sent to the Deep South, families divided. This mass movement of individuals became known as the Second what?
What is Middle Passage?