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| 6597846261 | Federalist | political party created in the 1790s led by Alexander Hamilton, favored a stronger national government - Supported primarily by the bankers and moneyed interests | 0 | |
| 6597846262 | Democratic-Republicans | Political party created in the 1790's - led by Thomas Jefferson - favored limited government and state rights - supported primarily by the "Common man" | 1 | |
| 6597846263 | Election of 1800 | aka Revolution of 1800- election that led to a peaceful transfer of power from the Federalist party to the Democratic Republican Party | 2 | |
| 6597846265 | Era of Good Feelings | the 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 Monroe | 3 | |
| 6597846266 | Democrats | political party that brought Andrew Jackson into office in 1829 - supported Jeffersonian ideas of limited government, drawing its support from the "common Man" | 4 | |
| 6597846267 | Whig Party | Political Party created in 1834 as a coalition of anti-Jackson political leaders and dedicated to internal improvements funded by the national government | 5 | |
| 6597846268 | Andrew Jackson | Leader 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 nullification | 6 | |
| 6597846269 | Henry Clay | Leader 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 compromise | 7 | |
| 6597846270 | South Carolina Nullification Crisis, 1832-1833 | After 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 time | 8 | |
| 6597846271 | John C. Calhoun | South Carolina political leader who defended slavery as a positive good and advocated the doctrine of nullification, a policy in which state could nullify federal law | 9 | |
| 6597846273 | John Marshall | Appointed 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 property | 10 | |
| 6597846275 | Marbury v. Madison 1803 | Supreme Court that declared a section of Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional and established the principle of judicial review | 11 | |
| 6597846276 | Judicial Review | The power of the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress | 12 | |
| 6597846277 | McCulloch v. Maryland 1819 | Supreme 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." | 13 | |
| 6597846278 | Gibbons v. Ogden 1824 | Supreme Court decision stating that the authority of Congress is absolute in matters of interstate commerce | 14 | |
| 6597846283 | Debates over the tariff and internal improvements | Northerners generally favored higher tariffs and internal improvements at federal expense while Southerners generally opposed higher tariffs and internal improvements at federal expense | 15 | |
| 6597846284 | Second Bank of the United States 1816 | Privately 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 years | 16 | |
| 6597846286 | Tariff of Abominations 1828 | tariff with such high rates that it set off tension between northerners and southerners over tariff issues | 17 | |
| 6597846288 | Southern Defense of Slavery | southerners 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 labor | 18 | |
| 6597846289 | Slave Codes | Laws that established the status of slaves denying them basic rights and classifying them as the property of slaveholders | 19 | |
| 6597846290 | Second Great Awakening | an 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 world | 20 | |
| 6597846292 | Seneca Falls Convention 1848 | the first convention in America for women right's held in NY | 21 | |
| 6597846293 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Advocate of women right's, including the right to vote -organized (with Lucretia Mott) the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY | 22 | |
| 6597846294 | Dorothea Dix | Pioneer in the moment for special treatment for the mentally ill | 23 | |
| 6597846298 | William Lloyd Garrison | Radical abolitionist in Massachusetts who published the liberator, an antislavery newspaper | 24 | |
| 6597846299 | Sojourner Truth | Former Slave (freed in 1827) who became a leading abolitionist and feminist | 25 | |
| 6597846309 | Lowell system | method 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 factory | 26 | |
| 6597846310 | Interchangeable parts | Parts that were identical and which could be substituted for one another - developed by Eli Whitney for the manufacturing of muskets | 27 | |
| 6597846311 | Erie Canal 1817-1825 | 350 mile canal built by the state of NY that stretched from Buffalo to Albany, the canal revolutionized shipping in NY | 28 | |
| 6597846313 | National Road 1811 | aka Cumberland Road- First significant road built in the US at the expense of the federal government - stretched from the Potomac River to the Ohio River | 29 | |
| 6597846315 | Cult of Domesticity | the belief that a woman's proper role in life was found in Domestic pursuits (raising children, taking care of the house) | 30 | |
| 6597846317 | Louisiana Purchase 1803 | U.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 River | 31 | |
| 6597846318 | Lewis and Clark expedition 1804-1806 | Expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | 32 | |
| 6597846320 | War of 1812 | 1812-1815, 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) | 33 | |
| 6597846322 | Monroe Doctrine 1823 | President 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 Hemisphere | 34 | |
| 6597846324 | Manifest Destiny | Belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the North American continent | 35 | |
| 6597846326 | Indian Removal Act, 1830 | Law that provided for the removal of all Indian tribes east of the Mississippi and the purchase of Indian lands for resettlement | 36 | |
| 6597846328 | Trail of Tears 1838 | Forced march of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Indian Territory in the winter | 37 | |
| 6597846329 | Seminole Wars 1814-1819, 1835-1842 | The Seminole of Florida opposed removal and resisted US troops | 38 | |
| 6597846330 | Missouri Compromise 1820 | Law proposed by Henry Clay admitting Missouri to the U.S. as a slave state and Maine as a free state | 39 | |
| 6597846331 | American Anti-Slavery Society | Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison - included Frederick Douglass as a significant leader of the society | 40 |
