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| 5550022279 | franchise | The right to vote | 0 | |
| 5550022280 | notables | Wealthy, northern landlords, slave-owning planters and seaport merchants. Where able to dominate the political system in the new republic. "Those who own the country are the most fit persons to participate in the government of it. | 1 | |
| 5550022281 | political machines | nick name of new political parties because they efficiently wove together the interests of diverse social and economic groups | 2 | |
| 5550022282 | spoils system | The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters | 3 | |
| 5550022283 | caucus | A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform. | 4 | |
| 5550022284 | American System | Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy. | 5 | |
| 5550022285 | internal improvements | This included the construction of better roads and canals. It was a part of Clay's American System | 6 | |
| 5550022286 | corrupt bargain | A political scandal that arose when the Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, allegedly met with John Quincy Adams before the House election to break a deadlock. Adams was elected president against the popular vote and Clay was named Secretary of State. |  | 7 |
| 5550022287 | consolidated government | In 1824, Martin Van Buren likewise declared his allegiance to constitutional "doctrines of the Jefferson school" and his opposition to this idea of a powerful and potentially oppressive national administration. Now a member of the U.S. Senate, Van Buren helped to defeat most of Adams' proposed subsidies for roads and canals. | 8 | |
| 5550022288 | Tariff of Abominations | 1828 - Also called Tariff of 1828, it raised the tariff on imported manufactured goods. The tariff protected the North but harmed the South; South said that the tariff was economically discriminatory and unconstitutional because it violated state's rights. |  | 9 |
| 5550022289 | nullification | a state attempting to declare federal laws unconsitutional if such laws were seen to overstep Congressional powers |  | 10 |
| 5550022290 | states' rights | the idea that a state convention could declare a law to be void within the state's border | 11 | |
| 5550022291 | Second Bank of the United States | Congress had established the bank in 1816, giving it a 20 year charter, was privately managed and operated The purpose of the bank was to stabilize the nation's money supply. Went out of existence during Jackson's presidency. | 12 | |
| 5550022293 | Trail of Tears | Forced westward journey of the Cherokees from land in Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838 under Jackson's Indian Removal Act on 1830. 3,000 died along the way. | 13 | |
| 5550022294 | Indian Removal Act of 1830 | Passed by Congress under the Jackson administration; this act removed all Indians east of the Mississippi to an "Indian Territory" where they would be "permanently" housed. | 14 | |
| 5550022295 | laissez-faire | The principle that the less government does, the better, particularly in reference to the economy. |  | 15 |
| 5550022296 | Whigs | Second national party, against Jackson | 16 | |
| 5550022299 | Mayor of New York v. Miln | State of New York could use its "police power" to inspect the health of arriving immigrants | 17 | |
| 5550022301 | Panic of 1837 | The second major economic crisis o the U. S. , 1837-1843 When Jackson was president, many state banks received government money that had been withdrawn from the Bank of the U.S. These banks issued paper money and financed wild speculation, especially in federal lands. Jackson issued the Specie Circular to force the payment for federal lands with gold or silver. Many state banks collapsed as a result. A panic ensued (1837). Bank of the U.S. failed, cotton prices fell, businesses went bankrupt, and there was widespread unemployment and distress. | 18 | |
| 5550022303 | ethnocultural politics | Refers to the fact that the political allegiance of many American voters was determined less by party policy than by their membership in a specific ethnic or religious group. | 19 | |
| 5550022304 | Martin Van Buren | (1837-1841) Advocated lower tariffs and free trade, and by doing so maintained support of the south for the Democratic party. He succeeded in setting up a system of bonds for the national debt. 8th President |  | 20 |
| 5554875786 | Worcester v georgia | Supreme Court Decision - Cherokee Indians were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments which would infringe on the tribe's sovereignty - Jackson ignored it | 21 | |
| 5554904580 | whigs | conservatives and popular with pro-Bank people and plantation owners. They mainly came from the National Republican Party, which was once largely Federalists. They took their name from the British political party that had opposed King George during the American Revolution. Their policies included support of industry, protective tariffs, and Clay's American System. They were generally upper class in origin. Included Clay and Webster | 22 | |
| 5554917434 | working men party | Rise of unions | 23 | |
| 5554923510 | John tyler | 10th President (1841-1845) His opinions on all the important issues had been forcefully stated, and he had only been chosen to balance the Whig ticket with no expectation he would ever have power. He was in favor of state's rights, and a strict interpretation of the constitution, he opposed protective tariffs, a national bank and internal improvements at national expense. | 24 | |
| 5554931001 | 2nd Great Awakening | Series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on methodism and baptism, stressed philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for protestants. Attracted women, African Americans,and Native Americans | 25 | |
| 5554934079 | transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 26 | |
| 5554950430 | American Lyceum movement | social movement to spread education through lectures | 27 | |
| 5554959979 | walden, civil disobedience | Henry David Thoreau, | 28 | |
| 5554968599 | shakers | 1770's by "Mother" Ann Lee; Utopian group that splintered from the Quakers; believed that they & all other churches had grown too interested in this world & neglectful of their afterlives; prohibited marriage and sexual relationships; practiced celibacy | 29 | |
| 5554971190 | oneida | "Perfectionists"; John Humphrey Noyes; rejected traditional notions of family & marriage | 30 | |
| 5554973036 | book of mormon | Joseph Smith | 31 | |
| 5554976425 | minstrel shows | Consisted of white actors in blackface. Consisted of comedy routines, dances, and instrumental solos. While today this is seen as racist, it does speak to the profound effect African American music had on American music | 32 | |
| 5554980046 | Liberty party | A former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848 | 33 | |
| 5554982302 | gag rule | 1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress | 34 | |
| 5554985112 | declaration of sentiments | declared that all "people are created equal"; used the Declaration of Independence to argue for women's rights | 35 | |
| 5554987979 | underground railroad | A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North | 36 | |
| 5554989885 | Seneca falls | (1848) the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written | 37 | |
| 5555035156 | walt whitman | Leaves of Grass | 38 | |
| 5555038654 | Margaret fuller | Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845 | 39 | |
| 5555091771 | brigham young | led the Mormons to Utah | 40 |
