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5409082643Federalistpolitical party created in the 1790s led by Alexander Hamilton, favored a stronger national government - Supported primarily by the bankers and moneyed interests0
5409082644Democratic-RepublicansPolitical party created in the 1790's - led by Thomas Jefferson - favored limited government and state rights - supported primarily by the "Common man"1
5409082645Election of 1800aka Revolution of 1800- election that led to a peaceful transfer of power from the Federalist party to the Democratic Republican Party2
5409082646Hartford Convention, 1814meeting of Federalists during the War of 1812 in which anti-war Federalist threatened to secede from the Union - generally viewed by some as treasonous and the Federalist Part began to die out3
5409082647Era of Good Feelingsthe decline of the Federalist Party and the end of the war of 1812 gave rise to a time of political cooperation - associated with the presidency of James Monroe4
5409082648Democratspolitical party that brought Andrew Jackson into office in 1829 - supported Jeffersonian ideas of limited government, drawing its support from the "common Man"5
5409082649Whig PartyPolitical Party created in 1834 as a coalition of anti-Jackson political leaders and dedicated to internal improvements funded by the national government6
5409082650Andrew JacksonLeader of the Democrats who became the seventh president of the US (1829-1837), known for his opposition to the 2nd Bank of the US, the Indian Removal Act, and opposition to nullification7
5409082651Henry ClayLeader of the Whig Party who proposed an "American System" to make the United States economically self-sufficient - worked to keep the Union together through political compromise8
5409082652South Carolina Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833After South Carolina declared the federal tariff null and void, President Jackson obtained a Force Bill to use military actions against South Carolina - ended with a compromise to lower tariffs over an extended time9
5409082653John C. CalhounSouth Carolina political leader who defended slavery as a positive good and advocated the doctrine of nullification, a policy in which state could nullify federal law10
5409082654Midnight JudgesFederalist judges appointed by John Adams between the time he lost the election of 1800 and the time he left office in March 180111
5409082655John MarshallAppointed to the Supreme Court by John Adams in 1801- served as a chief justice until 1835 - legal decisions gave the Supreme Court more power, strengthened the federal government, and protecting private property12
5409082656Cotton Beltsouthern region in US where most of the cotton is grown/deep - south area that stretched from South Carolina to Georgia to the new states in the southwest frontier - had the highest concentration of slaves13
5409082657Marbury v. Madison 1803Supreme Court that declared a section of Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional and established the principle of judicial review14
5409082658Judicial ReviewThe power of the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress15
5409082659McCulloch v. Maryland 1819Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the BUS - Maryland did not have the right to tax the federal bank and John Marshall wrote, "The power to tax is the power to destroy."16
5409082660Gibbons v. Ogden 1824Supreme Court decision stating that the authority of Congress is absolute in matters of interstate commerce17
5409082661Market EconomyEconomic system based on the unregulated buying and selling of goods and services - Prices are determined by the forces of supply and demand18
5409082662Embargo Act 1807in order to pressure Britain and France to aspect neutral trading rights, Jefferson issued a government-order ban on international trade - went into effect in 1808 and closed down virtually all U.S. trade with Foreign nations19
5409082663American System 1815Henry Clay's proposal to make the U.S. Economically self-sufficient - called for protective tariffs, internal improvements at federal expense, the creation of a second Bank of the United States20
5409082664Panic of 1819Financial panic that began when the Second Bank of the US tightened credit and recalled government loans after the price of cotton dropped21
5409082665Debates over the tariff and internal improvementsNortherners generally favored higher tariffs and internal improvements at federal expense while Southerners generally opposed higher tariffs and internal improvements at federal expense22
5409082666Second Bank of the United States 1816Privately owned bank that operated as both a commercial and fiscal agent for the US government - established in 1816 under a charter that was supposed to last 20 years23
5409082667Tariff of 1816first protective tariff in US history - designed primarily to help America's textile industry24
5409082668Tariff of Abominations 1828tariff with such high rates that it set off tension between northerners and southerners over tariff issues25
5409082669Panic of 1837Economic collapse caused primarily by President Jackson's destruction of the Second Bank of the United States26
5409082670Southern Defense of Slaverysoutherners held a widespread belief that blacks were inferior to whites and that the slavery was good for black - also understood that the southern cotton economy was dependent on slave labor27
5409082671Slave CodesLaws that established the status of slaves denying them basic rights and classifying them as the property of slaveholders28
5409082672Second Great Awakeningan upsurge in religious activity that began around 1800 and was characterized by emotional revival meetings - led to several reform movements designed to make a life better in this world29
5409082673Charles FinneyPresbyterian minister who is credited and is known as the "Father of modern Revivalism" - advocated the abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans30
5409082674Seneca Falls Convention 1848the first convention in America for women right's held in NY31
5409082675Elizabeth Cady StantonAdvocate of women right's, including the right to vote -organized (with Lucretia Mott) the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY32
5409082676Dorothea DixPioneer in the moment for special treatment for the mentally ill33
5409082677Horace MannMassachusetts educator who called for publicly funded education for all children34
5409082678Utopian CommunitiesIdealistic reform movement based on the belief that a perfect society could be created on Earth - Significant Utopian experiments were established at New Harmony, Indiana, Book Farm, Massachusetts and Oneida Community in New York35
5409082680American Colonization Society 1817Organization established to end slavery gradually by helping individual slave owners liberate their slaves and then transport the freed slaves to Africa36
5409082681William Lloyd GarrisonRadical abolitionist in Massachusetts who published the liberator, an antislavery newspaper37
5409082682Sojourner TruthFormer Slave (freed in 1827) who became a leading abolitionist and feminist38
5409082684NeoclassicismRevival in architecture and art in the late 1700s and early 1800s that was inspired by Greek and Roman Models39
5409082685Hudson River School 1825-1875The first native school of painting in the US - Attracting artists who were rebelling against neoclassicism - painted primarily landscapes40
5409082686TranscendentalismPhilosophical and literary movement that believed God existed within human being and nature - believed intuition was the highest source of knowledge41
5409082687Ralph Waldo EmersonPhilosopher, writer, and poet who became a central figure in American Transcendentalist42
5409082688Henry David ThoreauWriter and naturalist - With Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became America's best known transcendentalist43
5409082689John James AudubonNaturalist and painter who became well-known for his attempt to document all types of American birds44
5409082690Richard AllenAfrican American minister who established the first independent African American denomination in the US, the African Methodist Episcopalian Church45
5409082692Samuel Slaterknown as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," - brought British textile technology to the United States46
5409082693John DeereInvented the steel plow in 1837, which revolutionized farming - the steel plow broke up soil without the soil getting stuck to the plow47
5409082694Lowell systemmethod of factory management that evolved in the textile mills of Lowell, MA, - owned by the Boston Manufacturing Company and named in honor of the company's founder, Francis Lowell - first example of a planned automated factory48
5409082696Interchangeable partsParts that were identical and which could be substituted for one another - developed by Eli Whitney for the manufacturing of muskets49
5409082697Erie Canal 1817-1825350 mile canal built by the state of NY that stretched from Buffalo to Albany, the canal revolutionized shipping in NY50
5409082698TurnpikesA road in which tolls were collected at gates set up along the road51
5409082699National Road 1811aka Cumberland Road- First significant road built in the US at the expense of the federal government - stretched from the Potomac River to the Ohio River52
5409082701Mason-Dixon Lineboundary between PA and MD that marked the division between free and slave states before the Civil War53
5409082702Cult of Domesticitythe belief that a woman's proper role in life was found in Domestic pursuits (raising children, taking care of the house)54
5409082703Destruction of the Second Bank of the United States 1833President Jackson, who thought the Bank of the U.S. represented special interests at the expense of the common man, ordered federal deposits placed in state banks ("pet" banks) to deplete the funds of the national bank55
5409082704Louisiana Purchase 1803U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the U.S. and giving the U.S. full control of the Mississippi River56
5409082705Lewis and Clark expedition 1804-1806Expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark57
5409082706War HawksMembers of Congress from the West and South elected in 1810 who wanted war with Britain in the hopes of annexing new territory and ending British trade with the Indians of the Northwest58
5409082707War of 18121812-1815, War between the U.S. and Great Britain caused primarily by the British violation of American neutral rights on the high seas. - ended with an agreement of "status quo ante" (a return to how things were before the war)59
5409082708Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819Treaty between the U.S. and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S60
5409082709Monroe Doctrine 1823President Monroe's unilateral declaration that the Americas would be closed to further European colonization stated the U.S. would not allow European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere61
5409082711Oregon Treaty 1846after years of conflict over ownership of the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. and England established the boundary at 49° latitude62
5409082712Manifest DestinyBelief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the North American continent63
5409082716TecumsehShawnee leader who established an Indian confederacy that he hoped would be a barrier to white expansion - Defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 by U.S. forces led by General William Henry Harrison64
5409082717Indian Removal Act, 1830Law that provided for the removal of all Indian tribes east of the Mississippi and the purchase of Indian lands for resettlement65
5409082718Worcester v. Georgia 1832A Supreme Court ruling that declared a state did not have the power to enforce laws on lands that were not under state jurisdiction - John Marshall wrote that the state of Georgia did not have the power to remove Indians66
5409082719Trail of Tears 1838Forced march of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Indian Territory in the winter67
5409082720Seminole Wars 1814-1819, 1835-1842The Seminole of Florida opposed removal and resisted US troops68
5409082721Missouri Compromise 1820Law proposed by Henry Clay admitting Missouri to the U.S. as a slave state and Maine as a free state69
5409082722American Anti-Slavery SocietyAbolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison - included Frederick Douglass as a significant leader of the society70

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