10828739800 | Corrupt Bargain of 1824 | Election between Jackson and Adams; Adams won because he offered Clay secretary of state ; Adams became president | 0 | |
10828739801 | Election of 1828 | Jackson defeats John Quincy Adams | 1 | |
10828739802 | Mudslinging | Attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults | 2 | |
10828739803 | Spoils System | a system jackson used to put his supporters and friends into office | 3 | |
10828739804 | Nullification Crisis | South Carolina legislature wanted to nullify tariffs of 1824 & 1828 if not they would secede | 4 | |
10828739805 | Tariff of Abominations | tax on imported goods to help northern manufacturing 45% | 5 | |
10828739806 | Tariff of 1833 | every 8 years the tariff would be reduced by 10% | 6 | |
10828739807 | South Carolina Exposition | written by John C. Calhoun denouncing the 1828 Tariff as unconstitutional and that the states should be able to nullify | 7 | |
10828739808 | Force Bill | gave the president power to use military force to collect tariffs if the needed | 8 | |
10828739809 | Pet banks were: | state banks to house federal funds | 9 | |
10828739810 | Indian Removal Act | forced many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River | 10 | |
10828739811 | What were the 5 civilized tribes? | Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole | 11 | |
10828739812 | Bank War | Jackson believed the Bank of US had too much power. Vetoed the 2nd Bank charter | 12 | |
10828739813 | Election of 1832 | Jackson v Clay, Jackson wins. First time a third party was in an election, Anti-Masonic party. | 13 | |
10828739814 | Manifest Destiny | It was America's destiny to stretch from Atlantic to Pacific | 14 | |
10828739815 | Worcester vs. Georgia | Ruled in favor of Cherokee; Indians couldn't be forced to leave land | 15 | |
10828739816 | Whig Party Beliefs | strong national government, pro-tariffs, anti-masonic, American System | 16 | |
10828739817 | Democratic beliefs | states rights, limited government, free trade | 17 | |
10828739818 | Whig Party supporters | New England, Mid-Atlantic, upper Mid-West, | 18 | |
10828739819 | Democratic supporters | Southerners and Westerners | 19 | |
10828739820 | Election of 1836 | William Henry Harrison vs. Martin Van Buren; Van Buren won | 20 | |
10828739821 | Martin Van Buren | 8th President | 21 | |
10828739822 | William Henry Harrison | was an American military leader, politician, the 9th President, and 1st President to die in office. | 22 | |
10828739823 | Panic of 1837 | A financial crisis in the United States that led to an economic depression | 23 | |
10828739824 | Divorce Bill | A bill passed by Van Buren, that divorced the government from banking | 24 | |
10828739825 | the Alamo | an abandoned mission near San Antonio that became an important battle site in the Texas Revolution | 25 | |
10828739826 | Election of 1840 | William Henry Harrison vs. Martin Van Buren; Harrison won | 26 | |
10828739827 | Irish Immigrants | Came to the U.S. because of the Irish Potato Famine. Lived along eastern seaboard (NYC, Boston) Many worked in factories, railroads, etc. in harsh conditions for little pay | 27 | |
10828739828 | German Immigrants | Democratic Revolution failed, wanted religious freedom, came w/ money; came to PA, WI, TX; brought over Christmas trees, kindergarten, public schools etc. | 28 | |
10828739829 | Nativists | Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs and impose their Roman Catholic beliefs on society | 29 | |
10828739830 | Know-Nothing Party | Political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant | 30 | |
10828739831 | Commonwealth v. Hunt | ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non-union workers. | 31 | |
10828739832 | Cotton Gin | a machine for separating cotton from its seeds. | 32 | |
10828739833 | Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin | 33 | |
10828739834 | telegraph | A device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. | 34 | |
10828739835 | Mechanical Reaper | Machine that could harvest wheat quickly | 35 | |
10828739836 | Cumberland Road | the first road built by the federal government | 36 | |
10828739837 | Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river with Lake Erie | 37 | |
10828739838 | iron tramp steamers | fast ships that could carry large cargo | 38 | |
10828739839 | interchangeable parts | uniform pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces | 39 | |
10828739840 | Cult of Domesticity | idealized view of women & home; self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands | 40 | |
10828739841 | Steel Plow | could plow through thick soil so people could now farm in the Midwest | 41 | |
10828739842 | Tammany Hall Political Machine | led corruption in NYC for political and economic gain | 42 | |
10828739843 | Cyrus McCormick | Invented the mechanical reaper | 43 | |
10828739844 | Samuel Slater | invented the first American machine for spinning cotton. Known as "the Father of the Factory System" | 44 | |
10828739845 | Robert Fulton | Invented the steamboat | 45 | |
10828739846 | John Deere | Invented the steel plow | 46 | |
10828739847 | DeWitt Clinton | built the Erie Canal | 47 | |
10828739848 | Isaac Singer | Improved the sewing machine | 48 | |
10828739849 | Samuel F.B. Morse | invented the telegraph + morse code | 49 | |
10828739850 | Lowell Factory | factory in Lowell, Massachusetts that helped women get jobs and follow a different path besides farm work. | 50 | |
10828739851 | Second Great Awakening | A second religious revival. Had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans. | 51 | |
10828739852 | Unitarianism | Belief that employers and employees can act together for their common good. | 52 | |
10828739853 | Seneca Falls Convention | the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written | 53 | |
10828739854 | Temperance | restraint or moderation, especially in regards to alcohol or food | 54 | |
10828739855 | Transcendentalism | Held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience. | 55 | |
10828739856 | Mormon Church | religious denomination Church of Jesus Christ (Latter-Day Saints) based on the Book of Mormon started by Joseph Smith | 56 | |
10828739857 | Declaration of Sentiments | document modeled after the Declaration of Independence listed the injustices towards women; used to argue women's rights | 57 | |
10828739858 | Deism | Followers believed that God existed and had created the world, but that afterwards He left it to run by its own natural laws. | 58 | |
10828739859 | William McGuffey | wrote children's grammar books w/ moral | 59 | |
10828739860 | Timothy Dwight | credited with starting the 2nd Great Awakening with lectures at Yale | 60 | |
10828739861 | Dorothea Dix | convinced states to reform treatment of mentally ill | 61 | |
10828739862 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | formed NWSA (National Women's Suffrage Association); organized Seneca Falls | 62 | |
10828739863 | Brigham Young | led Mormons to Salt Lake City, Utah | 63 | |
10828739864 | William Miller | He led the group that believed the world would end on October 22, 1844. They originated in the Burned-Over-District. | 64 | |
10828739865 | Joseph Smith | founder of Mormonism | 65 | |
10828739866 | Henry David Thoreau | Transcendentalist, wrote "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" | 66 | |
10828739867 | Horace Mann | worked for public school reform and improved teacher training | 67 | |
10828739868 | Charles Finney | started series of revivals in NY; known for fire & brimstone sermons | 68 | |
10828739869 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Transcendentalist; delivered "The American Scholar" lecture | 69 | |
10828739870 | Neal Dow | Father of Prohibition; sponsored Maine Law | 70 | |
10828739871 | New Harmony | first Utopian society, by Robert Owen | 71 | |
10828739872 | Brook Farm | A transcendentalist Utopian experiment, put into practice byGeorge Ripley | 72 | |
10828739873 | Oneida Community | A group of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in New York. Practiced polygamy, communal property, and communal raising of children. | 73 | |
10828739874 | Shakers | A millennial group who believed in both Jesus and a mystic named Ann Lee. | 74 | |
10828739875 | Hudson River School | Founded by Thomas Cole, first native school of landscape painting in the U.S. | 75 | |
10828739876 | Romanticism | a movement in the arts and literature that emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. | 76 | |
10828739877 | Edgar Allan Poe | wrote The Raven | 77 | |
10828739878 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | wrote the Scarlet Letter | 78 | |
10828739879 | Herman Melville | wrote Moby Dick | 79 | |
10828739880 | Walt Whitman | Wrote Leaves of Grass | 80 | |
10828739881 | Louisa May Alcott | wrote Little Women | 81 |
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