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USHistory Review 2
Goal 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Father of the American factory system who built the first cotton mill in Rhode Island | Samuel Slater |
| Invented the process of separating seeds from fibers so that more cotton could be produced | Eli Whitney |
| The "Great Compromise", American System, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
| President who issued warning to European countries to stay out of Western Hemisphere | James Monroe |
| President who won election of 1824 as a result of the "corrupt bargin" | John Quincy Adams |
| Person MOST responsible for disrupting political unity and ending "Era of Good Feelings" | Andrew Jackson |
| President known for the "Age of the Common Man" and policy of Indian Removal | Andrew Jackson |
| South Carolina politician who opposed tariffs and favored states right and nullification | John C Calhoun |
| Promoted nationalism by establishing language standards for American English | Noah Webster |
| Father of Transcendentalism; promoted ideas of individualism, self-reliance, love of nature | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Transcendentalist who lived on Walden Pond and wrote book "Civil Disobedience" | Henry David Thoreau |
| Group of painters who promoted nationalism by painting natural landscapes | Hudson River School |
| The term "Trail of Tears" is associated with the | Cherokee Indians |
| Sought equal rights in the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions at Seneca Falls, NY | Women |
| Thoreau said, "The government is best which governs least", agreeing closely with the ideas of | Thomas Jefferson |
| American author wrote tales such as "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | Washington Irving |
| Reformer who worked to establish humane treatment of the mentally ill | Dorothea Dix |
| Published the "Liberator" in which he condemned slavery on moral grounds | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Published the "North Star" in which he told about evils of slavery and supported abolition | Frederick Douglas |
| Daughters of SC slaveholders that became leading abolitionist in South | Grimke Sisters |
| Abolitionist who traveled throughout North giving anti-slavery speeches | Frederick Douglas |
| Reasons Americans went West | Goldrush, Manifest Destiny, and Religious Freedom |
| Henry Clay's economic plan for the nation; included tariffs, internal improvements, and BUS (Banks of US) | American System |
| John Marshall's Supreme Court decisions did this to the powers of the federal government | Increased it |
| The idea that national interests should be placed ahead of regional or sectional interests | Nationalism |
| Geographic link between the western states and the rest of the world before the Erie Canal | Mississippi River |
| Missouri Compromise addressed this issue; declared Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state | Slavery |
| Most significant impact of the Jacksonian Era on American policies | Extension of Voting |
| The act of appointing political supporters and friends to government offices is known as the | Spoils System |
| Ordinance of Nullification was passed by South Carolina in 1832 in reaction to | Tariff of Abominations |
| Andrew Jackson's policy toward the eastern Indian tribes can BEST be characterized as | Indian Removal |
| Northerners opposed this war because they knew Texas wanted to extend slavery into new territory | Mexican-American War |
| Religious movement of the 1800s influenced social reform by inspiring believers to improve society | 2nd Great Awakening |
| Many Southerners strongly defended this because the southern economy needed it to prosper | Slavery |
| Transcendentalists believed the power to change the world rested with the | Individual |
| Ideas emphasized by Transcendentalists | Self-reliance, nature, abolition of slavery |
| Horace Mann was BEST associated with this reform movement | Public Education |
| Act of disobeying laws that are unjust: Thoreau, Gandhi, King Jr | Civil Disobedience |
| Name of movement that sought to end slavery in the United States | Abolitionist |
| Religious group that influenced abolitionist with belief in "inner light" | Quakers |
| Customs that controlled the lives of women in the early 19th century were referred to as this | Cult of Domesticity |
| Name for pre-Civil War era | Antebellum |
| In the mid-1800s most American manufacturing was located in the | Northeast |
| War that led to argument over the extension of slavery into new territories | Mexican-American War |
| Treaty with Spain that gave the US possession of Florida | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| Treaty ended Mexican War, est Rio Grande River as southern border; led to conflict over slavery in the west | Guadalope-Hidalgo |
| Doubled the size of US; unconstitutional, executive branch can't buy land | Louisiana Purchase |
| Site gold was discovered to begin gold rush | Sutter's Mill |
| Territory purchase that completed sized of US excluding Hawaii and Alaska | Gadsden Purchase |
| Transportation improvement that improved trade between New York and the Ohio River Valley | Erie Canal |
| Act that promoted nationalism by maintaining the balance of power in Congress | Missouri Compromise |
| Supreme Court Case that extended federal control over interstate commerce | Gibbons v. Ogden |
| Supreme Court Case that declared the Bank of the US to be constitutional | McCullough v. Maryland |
| The name of tariff given by those who thought it hurt the South while helping northern businessmen | Tariff of Abominations |
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