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American System

Henry Clay's nationalistic proposal for tariffs and internal improvements

Battle of Tippecanoe

Event that crushed Indian resistance east of the Mississippi River

Corrupt Bargain

Jacksonian term for the alleged political deal by which Clay supported Adams in exchange for a cabinet office

Democrats

Political party led by Andrew Jackson that supported States' Rights and clear defenders of enslavement

Embargo Act

Jefferson's policy of forbidding the shipment of any goods in or out of the United States.

Era of Good Feelings

Term applied to Monroe administrations suggesting that this period lacked major conflict s

Gibbons v. Ogden

Ruling determined that the federal government has exclusive power over interstate commerce

Hartford Convention

Gathering of prominent New England Federalists who considered secession.

Internal Improvements

The basic public works -- such as roads and canals--that create the structure for economic development

Jacksonian Democracy

Respect for the common man, expansion of white male suffrage, ppointment of politic: upporters to governmer positions, and opposition to privileged (Eastern) elites.

Lewis & Clark Expedition

Sent by Jefferson to explore and map the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase

Log Cabin and Hard Cider

Symbols of the first "modern" election as both political parties actively campaigned to the masses

Marbury v. Madison

Ruling that established judicial review, declaring that the Supreme Court has the right to determine the constitutionality of federal laws.

McCulloch v. Maryland

Supreme Court ruling that established Federal government's implied powers that are necessary and proper to govern (and that Federal law is supreme to state laws).

Missouri Compromise

Legislation that admitted one slave and one free state to the Union and established the boundary between slave and free territories

Monroe Doctrine

A foreign-policy proclamation that the Unites States would not permit any new

European colonialism in the western hemisphere

Nullification Crisis

1832 confrontation between the federal government and the state of South Carolina over the right of a state to refuse to enforce a federal law.

Panic of 1837

A major financial depression brought on in part by the specie circular and the end of the Second Bank of the United States

Pet Banks

State financial institutions where

Jackson deposited federal funds after removing them from the Bank of the United States

Romanticism

Emphasized emotion and individualism as well as glorified the past and nature, helped developed a new national culture

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Led an uprising in Haiti that overthrew French colonial rule, setting up the first black government in the Western Hemisphere

Trail of Tears

The sorrowful path along which thousands of southeastern Native

American were moved to

Oklahoma

War Hawk

Militantly nationalistic western congressmen eager for hostilities with the Indians, Canadians and British.

Whigs

New political party, based on hatred of Jackson, that stood for national unity and an activist government

Worchester v. Georgia

The Cherokee nation's legal challenge to Andrew Jackson, and this ruling upheld the nation's right to occupy their land

American Colonization Society

Organization founded in 1817 to send blacks to Africa

American "Know-Nothing" Party

Third Party founded in the 1850's that was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic

Commonwealth v. Hunt

Pioneering Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that declared labor unions legal

Cult of Domesticity

Nineteenth-century belief that woman occupied a specific position as caretakers of the “private sphere” (the home)

David Walker

Wrote An Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World, calling for black unity and a fight to immediately end enslavement in the United States

Erie Canal

Transportation route of 363 miles that connected that connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean

Free Soil Party

Northern anti-slavery politicians who opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

Gabriel’s Rebellion

A plan by enslaved African American men in 1800 to destroy the system of enslavement in Virginia

King Cotton

Southern belief that England was economically dependent on southern cotton and would thus come to their aid in war

The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison's fervent abolitionist newspaper that preached an immediate end to slavery

Lowell System

Combined textile production into a singular place, ending the putting-out system

Lowell Girls

New England farm girls who worked in a textile factory in Massachusetts and lived in company-supervised boarding houses

Market Revolution

Nineteenth-century economic transition away from self-sufficient production to production of goods for sale

Mormons

Religious group founded by Joseph Smith that eventually established a cooperative commonwealth in Utah

Mechanical Reaper

McCormick's invention that vastly increased the productivity of the American grain farmer.

Nativism

Fear of and opposition to immigrants

Nat Turner Rebellion

Occurring in 1831, one of the largest rebellions by enslaved individuals, and as a result rather than ending slavery, Virginia imposed additional restrictions and harsher laws against blacks

The North Star

Frederick Douglass’ anti-slavery newspaper published starting in 1847 demanding an immediate, uncompensated end to enslavement

Oberlin College

The first institution of higher learning to open its doors to women and blacks

Oneida Colony

Successful commune that manufactured stainless steel animal traps and silverware

Second Great Awakening

Religious revival that sparked a number of reform movements as well as new churches.

Seneca Falls Convention

Memorable 1848 meeting where women made an appeal based on the Declaration of Independence and sought the right to vote and an end to coverture

Shakers

Longest lasting of the utopian experiments in communal living (even though they opposed both marriage and free love.)

Vesey Conspiracy

South Carolina responded to this planned insurrection by enslaved individuals with harsher slave laws and further protected enslavement in the state

American Colonization Society

Organization founded in 1817 to send blacks to Africa

American "Know-Nothing" Party

Third Party founded in the 1850's that was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic

Burned-over District

The region of western New York that experienced especially intense religious revival meetings

Commonwealth v. Hunt

Pioneering Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that declared labor unions legal

Cult of Domesticity

Nineteenth-century belief that woman occupied a specific position as caretakers of the “private sphere” (the home)

David Walker

Wrote An Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World, calling for black unity and a fight to immediately end enslavement in the United States

Erie Canal

Transportation route of 363 miles that connected that connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean

Free Soil Party

Northern anti-slavery politicians who opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

Gabriel’s Rebellion

A plan by enslaved African American men in 1800 to destroy the system of enslavement in Virginia

King Cotton

Southern belief that England was economically dependent on southern cotton and would thus come to their aid in war

The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison's fervent abolitionist newspaper that preached an immediate end to slavery

Lowell System

Combined textile production into a singular place, ending the putting-out system

Lowell Girls

New England farm girls who worked in a textile factory in Massachusetts and lived in company-supervised boarding houses

Market Revolution

Nineteenth-century economic transition away from self-sufficient production to production of goods for sale

Mormons

Religious group founded by Joseph Smith that eventually established a cooperative commonwealth in Utah

Mechanical Reaper

McCormick's invention that vastly increased the productivity of the American grain farmer.

Nativism

Fear of and opposition to immigrants

Nat Turner Rebellion

Occurring in 1831, one of the largest rebellions by enslaved individuals, and as a result rather than ending slavery, Virginia imposed additional restrictions and harsher laws against blacks

The North Star

Frederick Douglass’ anti-slavery newspaper published starting in 1847 demanding an immediate, uncompensated end to enslavement

Oberlin College

The first institution of higher learning to open its doors to women and blacks

Oneida Colony

Successful commune that manufactured stainless steel animal traps and silverware

Second Great Awakening

Religious revival that sparked a number of reform movements as well as new churches.

Seneca Falls Convention

Memorable 1848 meeting where women made an appeal based on the Declaration of Independence and sought the right to vote and an end to coverture

Shakers

Longest lasting of the utopian experiments in communal living (even though they opposed both marriage and free love.)

Vesey Conspira

South Carolina responded to this planned insurrection by enslaved individuals with harsher slave laws and further protected enslavement in the state

American System

Henry Clay's nationalistic proposal for tariffs and internal improvements

Battle of Tippecanoe

Event that crushed Indian resistance east of the Mississippi River

Corrupt Bargain

Jacksonian term for the alleged political deal by which Clay supported Adams in exchange for a cabinet office

Democrats

Political party led by Andrew Jackson that supported States' Rights and clear defenders of enslavement

Embargo Act

Jefferson's policy of forbidding the shipment of any goods in or out of the United States.

Era of Good Feelings

Term applied to Monroe administrations suggesting that this period lacked major conflict s

Gibbons v. Ogden

Ruling determined that the federal government has exclusive power over interstate commerce

Hartford Convention

Gathering of prominent New England Federalists who considered secession.

Internal Improvements

The basic public works -- such as roads and canals--that create the structure for economic development

Jacksonian Democracy

Respect for the common man, expansion of white male suffrage, ppointment of politic: upporters to governmer positions, and opposition to privileged (Eastern) elites.

Lewis & Clark Expedition

Sent by Jefferson to explore and map the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase

Log Cabin and Hard Cider

Symbols of the first "modern" election as both political parties actively campaigned to the masses

Marbury v. Madison

Ruling that established judicial review, declaring that the Supreme Court has the right to determine the constitutionality of federal laws.

McCulloch v. Maryland

Supreme Court ruling that established Federal government's implied powers that are necessary and proper to govern (and that Federal law is supreme to state laws).

Missouri Compromise

Legislation that admitted one slave and one free state to the Union and established the boundary between slave and free territories

Monroe Doctrine

A foreign-policy proclamation that the Unites States would not permit any new

European colonialism in the western hemisphere

Nullification Crisis

1832 confrontation between the federal government and the state of South Carolina over the right of a state to refuse to enforce a federal law.

Panic of 1837

A major financial depression brought on in part by the specie circular and the end of the Second Bank of the United States

Pet Banks

State financial institutions where

Jackson deposited federal funds after removing them from the Bank of the United States

Romanticism

Emphasized emotion and individualism as well as glorified the past and nature, helped developed a new national culture

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Led an uprising in Haiti that overthrew French colonial rule, setting up the first black government in the Western Hemisphere

Trail of Tears

The sorrowful path along which thousands of southeastern Native

American were moved to

Oklahoma

War Hawk

Militantly nationalistic western congressmen eager for hostilities with the Indians, Canadians and British.

Whigs

New political party, based on hatred of Jackson, that stood for national unity and an activist government

Worchester v. Georgia

The Cherokee nation's legal challenge to Andrew Jackson, and this ruling upheld the nation's right to occupy their land

3/5ths Compromise

Compromise between Northern and Southern Constitutional delegates that resulted in each slave being counted as 60% of a person