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8373988087Federalistpolitical party created in the 1790s led by Alexander Hamilton, favored a stronger national government - Supported primarily by the bankers and moneyed interests0
8373988088Democratic-RepublicansPolitical party created in the 1790's - led by Thomas Jefferson - favored limited government and state rights - supported primarily by the "Common man"1
8373988089Election of 1800aka Revolution of 1800- election that led to a peaceful transfer of power from the Federalist party to the Democratic Republican Party2
8373988090Hartford 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
8373988091Era 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
8373988092Democratspolitical party that brought Andrew Jackson into office in 1829 - supported Jeffersonian ideas of limited government, drawing its support from the "common Man"5
8373988093Whig PartyPolitical Party created in 1834 as a coalition of anti-Jackson political leaders and dedicated to internal improvements funded by the national government6
8373988094Andrew 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
8373988095Henry 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
8373988096South 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
8373988097John 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
8373988098Midnight JudgesFederalist judges appointed by John Adams between the time he lost the election of 1800 and the time he left office in March 180111
8373988099John 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
8373988100Cotton 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
8373988101Marbury v. Madison 1803Supreme Court that declared a section of Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional and established the principle of judicial review14
8373988102Judicial ReviewThe power of the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress15
8373988103McCulloch 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
8373988104Gibbons v. Ogden 1824Supreme Court decision stating that the authority of Congress is absolute in matters of interstate commerce17
8373988105Market EconomyEconomic system based on the unregulated buying and selling of goods and services - Prices are determined by the forces of supply and demand18
8373988106Embargo 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
8373988107American 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
8373988108Panic of 1819Financial panic that began when the Second Bank of the US tightened credit and recalled government loans after the price of cotton dropped21
8373988109Debates 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
8373988110Second 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
8373988111Tariff of 1816first protective tariff in US history - designed primarily to help America's textile industry24
8373988112Tariff of Abominations 1828tariff with such high rates that it set off tension between northerners and southerners over tariff issues25
8373988113Panic of 1837Economic collapse caused primarily by President Jackson's destruction of the Second Bank of the United States26
8373988114Southern 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
8373988115Slave CodesLaws that established the status of slaves denying them basic rights and classifying them as the property of slaveholders28
8373988116Second 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
8373988117Charles 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
8373988118Seneca Falls Convention 1848the first convention in America for women right's held in NY31
8373988119Elizabeth 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
8373988120Dorothea DixPioneer in the moment for special treatment for the mentally ill33
8373988121Horace MannMassachusetts educator who called for publicly funded education for all children34
8373988122Utopian 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
8373988123James FortenAfrican American businessman from Philadelphia who advocated racial integration and equal rights during the Jeffersonian era36
8373988124American Colonization Society 1817Organization established to end slavery gradually by helping individual slave owners liberate their slaves and then transport the freed slaves to Africa37
8373988125William Lloyd GarrisonRadical abolitionist in Massachusetts who published the liberator, an antislavery newspaper38
8373988126Sojourner TruthFormer Slave (freed in 1827) who became a leading abolitionist and feminist39
8373988127Frederick DouglassFormer slave who became a significant leader in the abolitionist movement - Known for his great oratorical skills40
8373988128NeoclassicismRevival in architecture and art in the late 1700s and early 1800s that was inspired by Greek and Roman Models41
8373988129Hudson River School 1825-1875The first native school of painting in the US - Attracting artists who were rebelling against neoclassicism - painted primarily landscapes42
8373988130TranscendentalismPhilosophical and literary movement that believed God existed within human being and nature - believed intuition was the highest source of knowledge43
8373988131Ralph Waldo EmersonPhilosopher, writer, and poet who became a central figure in American Transcendentalist44
8373988132Henry David ThoreauWriter and naturalist - With Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became America's best known transcendentalist45
8373988133John James AudubonNaturalist and painter who became well-known for his attempt to document all types of American birds46
8373988134Richard AllenAfrican American minister who established the first independent African American denomination in the US, the African Methodist Episcopalian Church47
8373988135Slave musicMusic created by slaves for the purpose of religion, work and recreation - became the foundation for later styles of music known as gospel, jazz, and blues48
8373988136Samuel Slaterknown as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," - brought British textile technology to the United States49
8373988137John DeereInvented the steel plow in 1837, which revolutionized farming - the steel plow broke up soil without the soil getting stuck to the plow50
8373988138Lowell 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 factory51
8373988139Anthracite coal miningCoal mines in PA produced anthracite, which became the most popular fuel for heating homes in the northern United States until the 1950s when it was replaced by oil and gas burning heating systems52
8373988140Interchangeable partsParts that were identical and which could be substituted for one another - developed by Eli Whitney for the manufacturing of muskets53
8373988141Erie Canal 1817-1825350 mile canal built by the state of NY that stretched from Buffalo to Albany, the canal revolutionized shipping in NY54
8373988142TurnpikesA road in which tolls were collected at gates set up along the road55
8373988143National 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 River56
8373988144Baltimore and Ohio RailroadFirst steam railroad commissioned in the US57
8373988145Mason-Dixon Lineboundary between PA and MD that marked the division between free and slave states before the Civil War58
8373988146Cult of Domesticitythe belief that a woman's proper role in life was found in Domestic pursuits (raising children, taking care of the house)59
8373988147Destruction 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 bank60
8373988148Louisiana 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 River61
8373988149Lewis and Clark expedition 1804-1806Expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark62
8373988150War 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 Northwest63
8373988151War 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)64
8373988152Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819Treaty between the U.S. and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S65
8373988153Monroe 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 Hemisphere66
8373988154Annexation of Texas 1845Through a joint resolution of Congress, the U.S. annexed and granted statehood to the Republic of Texas, an independent nation that had won its independence from Mexico in 183667
8373988155Oregon Treaty 1846after years of conflict over ownership of the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. and England established the boundary at 49° latitude68
8373988156Manifest DestinyBelief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the North American continent69
8373988157Mexican- American War 1846-48War caused by a territorial dispute between the U.S. and Mexico that led to Mexico ceding land to the U.S.70
8373988158Mexican Cession, 1848The region of the present-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo71
8373988159Chinese tradeIn 1844 the US secured a treaty with China that gave the US trading privileges already enjoyed by many other foreign powers72
8373988160TecumsehShawnee 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 Harrison73
8373988161Indian Removal Act, 1830Law that provided for the removal of all Indian tribes east of the Mississippi and the purchase of Indian lands for resettlement74
8373988162Worcester 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 Indians75
8373988163Trail of Tears 1838Forced march of the Cherokee people from Georgia to Indian Territory in the winter76
8373988164Seminole Wars 1814-1819, 1835-1842The Seminole of Florida opposed removal and resisted US troops77
8373988165Missouri Compromise 1820Law proposed by Henry Clay admitting Missouri to the U.S. as a slave state and Maine as a free state78
8373988166American Anti-Slavery SocietyAbolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison - included Frederick Douglass as a significant leader of the society79

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