Unit 4 Vocabulary

Impact of the Supreme Court decisions of the early 1800s

The primacy of judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution (think judicial review)) and giving federal laws power over state governments (think Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland) 

Whigs and Democrats Disagreed over

Role and powers of the federal government, National Bank, tariffs, federally

Impact of the Second Great Awakening

Moral and social reforms (abolitionism, women’s rights, temperance, etc.

Seneca Falls Convention

Womens’s Rights convention that sought greater equality (attended by men too, Fredrick Douglass)

New innovations during the Market Revolution

Textile machinery (spinning jenny), steam engines, interchangeable parts (Eli Whitney), telegraph, and agricultural inventions (cotton gin - Whitney again)

How did the Market Revolution change the production of goods?

Goods were increasingly made outside the home

Women and men began working in factories

Where did immigrants settle?

Irish settled in northern cities, Germans settled on the frontier-worked as farmers (CINCINNATI)

American System

Henry Clay’s plan to unify the American economy. Focused on a 2nd BUS

Internal Improvements and Tariffs

The north Midwest benefitted more than the south

Monroe Doctrine

President Monroe’s message to Europe to NOT colonize any new land in Latin America

The US would stay out of European affairs

Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)

3 parts: Maine was a free state

Missouri was a slave state

everything above 3630 latitude line would be free, everything below would be a slave

applied only to Louisiana Purchase

Later overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act