First Five Presidents | The Age of Jackson | American System and Reform Movements | Slavery and American Politics | Manifest Destiny/Annexation of Texas/ Mexican War |
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What are the Sedition Acts?
Made it illegal to speak out against the government to protect the nation from foreigners who wanted to drag us into war
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What is Jacksonian Democracy?
Government with a strong president and a weak congress, states' rights, and increased suffrage for Americans.
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What is the American System?
unite the nation through trade infrastructure (transportation) and banking
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Who is Frederick Douglass?
former slave and abolitionist
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What are the territories obtained by the Mexican War
California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming
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What were the precedents set by George Washington?
Mr. President, 1st Cabinet, Constitutional Authority to Enforce Laws, First Supreme Court, First Foreign Policy, Two terms
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What is increased citizen participation?
Removed property requirements to vote (allowed the "common man" to vote)
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Who is Henry Clay?
He created the American System
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Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
radical white abolitionist who published graphic stories about slavery in his newspaper
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What is Manifest Destiny?
The USA belief that God wanted us to expand our borders to the Pacific Ocean
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What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Purchased this land without permission of Congress, who the constitution implied could add territory.
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What is a veto?
What presidential power did Jackson often use?
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What is the temperance movement?
want to reduce poverty and domestic violence by limiting alcohol.
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Who are the Grimke Sisters?
daughters of slave-owner who supported abolition and women's rights
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What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Acquisition that completed the US/Mexico border
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What did the Monroe Doctrine establish?
Warns European countries against interfering in this part of the world.
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What is Nullification Crisis?
Confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government over the former's attempt to null and void the state federal tariffs.
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What is abolition?
want to end the immoral practice of slavery
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What is the Missouri Compromise?
a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery
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How did the Mexican War increase sectionalism in the United States?
Adding territories in the west brought up the issue of slavery again.
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What are the causes of the War of 1812?
Impressment, help the Indians fight the United States, and USA wants Canada.
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What is the Indian Removal Act?
Authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands.
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What is women's suffrage?
wanted to grant voting rights to women, along with custody and property rights.
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What are the effects of Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Took away what little freedom were given to slaves in the South, increased Northerners desire to end slavery
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Why was the Missouri Compromise needed to settle the issue of slavery in Missouri?
Adding Missouri as a state would give slave states more representation in the Senate
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