Question | Answer |
He proposed the American system | Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun |
Wrote stories of the French & Indian War such as "The Last of the Mohicans" | James F. Cooper |
Wrote Folk tales of Dutch settlers like "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | Washington Irving |
Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney |
Supreme Court Chief Justice whose decisions strengthened the national government | John Marshall |
This treaty removed warships from the Great Lakes following the War of 1812 | Rush-Bagot Treaty |
This treaty acquired Florida from Spain | Adams-Onis Treaty |
Treaty that settled the Maine - Canada border | Webster - ashburton Treaty |
This treaty set the border between Louisiana Territory and Canada at the 49th parallel | British - American Convention |
Case that upheld the supremacy of the federal government and declared that states could not tax the National Bank | McCulloch v. Maryland |
Case upheld federal authority over interstate commerce | Gibbons v. Ogden |
Religious revival movement that swept the nation | The second great awakening |
Religious group that was persecuted for the practice of polygamy | Mormonism |
Philosophical movement derived from Romanticism. Stressed ties to nature | Transcendentalism |
Religious community that practiced celibacy & a simple lifestyle | Shakers |
She helped organize the 1848 women rights convention | Margaret Fuller |
Founder and leader of the Shakers | Mother Ann Lee |
She worked to gain more humane treatment of the mentally ill | Dorothea Dix |
Reclusive poet whose works became well known after her death | Emily Dickinson |
Inventor of the sewing machine | Elias Howe |
2 examples of transcendentalist authors | Ralph Waldo Emmerson and Henry David Thoreau |
Pioneer in education reforms | Horace Mann |
Author of tales about early New England such as the "The Scarlet Letter" | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Inventor of the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
Founder of the Mormon Church | Joseph Smith |
Inventor of the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
Writer of horror tales such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" | Edgar Allen Poe |
Leading white male abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison |
Leading black male abolitionist and publisher of The North Star | Frederick Douglas |
Black female abolitionist known for her speech making abilities | Sojourner Truth |
Black female abolitionist known for her work with the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
The president during the "Era of Good Feelings" | James Monroe |
Movement to convince people to stop drinking alcohol | Temperance Movement |
This policy statement continued neutrality but added the warning that the U.S. wanted no more European colonization in the Western Hemisphere | Monroe Doctrine |
Site of early textile mill town that attempted to treat workers well | Lowell, MA |
Vice president who wrote the South Carolina Protest & Exposition against tariffs | John C. Calhoun |
U.S. President who "Killed" the second National Bank | Andrew Jackson |
President of the National Bank | Nicholas Biddle |
He debated Robert Haynes in the Senate and defeated the supremacy of the national government over the states | Daniel Webster |
He won the 1824 election by a vote of the House of Representatives in what became known as the "Corrupt Bargain" | Andrew Jackson |
President after Jackson. Signed the Independent Treasury Act | Martin Van Buren |
Term: Approval from the people after a big electoral victory | Mandate |
Term: For negative attacks on candidates during elections | Mudslinging |
What critics called Jackson's "rotation in office" of federal workers | Spoils System |
Term: Describing a states' attempt to ignore a law passed by Congress | Nullification |
Term: For hard currency; gold or silver coin | Specie Circular |
When you buy something (Land, stocks) in hopes of selling it at a profit | Speculation |
Political party formed by Andrew Jackson and that promoted states rights | Democratic Party |
New name for the National Republican Party to show their opposition to Andrew Jackson | Whig Party |