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Age of Jackson
1787-1840
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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