Period 4 All Star Vocab

APUSH

American System

Henry Clay's proposed laws of a protective tariff, Second National Bank and internal improvements

Cult of Domesticity

Middle class women were expected to provide their family with religious and moral instruction in their separate sphere

Democrats

Jackson's party which opposed tariffs, the National Bank and internal improvements

Embargo Act

In an effort to prevent a war with Britain or France, Jefferson prohibited trade with all foreign countries

William Lloyd Garrison

Radical abolitionist publisher of the Liberator who advocated the immediate emancipation of slaves

Irish Immigrants

Immigrants who moved to the northeastern cities as a result of the potato famine in the 1840s and 1850s

Louisiana Purchase

Land deal which went against Jefferson's belief in strict interpretation yet increased the popularity of the Democratic-Republican Party

Lowell System

Labor model that ensured a moral place for single young New England women working in the textile industry

Market Revolution

An expansion of the economy which was caused by new textile industries, agricultural specialization and improvements in transportation

John Marshall

Federalist Supreme Court Chief Justice whose opinions strengthened the powers of the national government

Missouri Compromise

Henry Clay temporarily diffused sectional tensions by prohibiting slavery north of the 36 degree 30 line

Monroe Doctrine

America's declaration that the Western Hemisphere would be off-limits to European colonization

Nativism

A hostile attitude towards immigrants which began in the Northeast during the 1840s

Second Great Awakening

Evangelical Protestant revival in the 1830s which inspired new religions and reform movements

Sectionalism

Extreme loyalty towards one's region of the nation

Seneca Falls Convention

The first women's rights meeting where they outlined their desires for equality in the Declaration of Sentiments

Tariff of Abominations

Law created to benefit northern manufacturing at the expense of the Southern economy

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Slave rebellion in Virginia which resulted in the creation of harsher slave codes

Whigs

Clay's party which supported tariffs, the National Bank, and internal improvements

White male suffrage

Eliminating property qualifications for voters in order to broaden participation in democracy