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1787-1840

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Second Party System   Whigs/Democrats replace Federalists/Democratic-Republicans  
Albany Regency   The first American political machine offering spoils to the victorious party  
Alexis de Tocqueville   wrote that some Americans were "more equal than others"  
Andrew Jackson   utilized the Kitchen Cabinet and *Spoil System*  
Aroostook Valley   site of border war between British lumberjacks and US potato farmers  
Black Hawk   led futile attempt to reclaim land in Illinois  
Canal   building boom of the 1830s, this transportation innovation financed by state governments  
Charles Finney   greatest revivalist of the 2nd Great Awakening  
Cherokee   allowed to stay in Georgia according to one branch but not another of the federal government  
Chickasaw   among the most reluctant of the tribes to relocate to Oklahoma  
Corrupt Bargain   Clay and Adams versus Jackson in the House  
Cyrus McCormick   mechanized harvesting in the Midwest  
De Facto   segregation found in the North  
Dorothea Dix   reformer who advocated a change in how the insane were treated  
Elijah Lovejoy   martyred abolitionist  
Five Points   district in NYC that had the most infamous antebellum immigrant slum  
Henry Clay   when the Maysville Road was vetoed, this Great Compromiser into the Whig party  
Hinton Helper   wrote that slavery was not a positive good for poor whites at all  
Horace Mann   father of American public education  
Hudson River School   landscape painters in New York  
Jedidiah Smith   the most famous of the rugged guides through the frontier  
John Calhoun   rebuked the Tariff of 1828 using SC Exposition  
John Q. Adams   only former president to join the US Congress after administration  
Joseph Smith   founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints  
Josiah Holbrook   started adult education through lyceum movement  
Martin Van Buren   president immediately after Andrew Jackson  
Monroe Doctrine   told Europe that America was closed to further coloization  
New York   the western portion was the cauldron of the 2nd Great Awakening  
Nicholas Biddle   by trying to stay "above politics" he alienated himself from Jackson  
Peggy Eaton   tore the Jackson cabinet apart  
Pet Banks   state banks that were loyal to the Democratic Party  
Preemption   allowed squatters to claim western lands if eastern states were compensated  
Sam Houston   hero of the Texas "war for independence"  
Samuel Colt   developed the revolver  
Spatial mobility   the kind of movement created by the transportation/market revolution  
Temperance   movement dominated by women who wanted lower class men to limit imbibing  
the "necessary evil"   the issue that became more and more sectionalized  
Willamette Valley   goal of the Oregon Trail  
Winfield Scott   commander of the US Army responsible for maintaining the Trail of Tears  
Women   were "given" moral authority in the home under the separate spheres doctrine  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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