First Five Presidents The Age of Jackson American System and Reform Movements Slavery and American Politics Manifest Destiny/Annexation of Texas/ Mexican War
100
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
100
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
Government with a strong president and a weak congress, states' rights, and increased suffrage for Americans.
100
What is the American System?
unite the nation through trade infrastructure (transportation) and banking
100
Who is Frederick Douglass?
former slave and abolitionist
100
What are the territories obtained by the Mexican War
California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming
200
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
200
What is increased citizen participation?
Removed property requirements to vote (allowed the "common man" to vote)
200
Who is Henry Clay?
He created the American System
200
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
radical white abolitionist who published graphic stories about slavery in his newspaper
200
What is Manifest Destiny?
The USA belief that God wanted us to expand our borders to the Pacific Ocean
300
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Purchased this land without permission of Congress, who the constitution implied could add territory.
300
What is a veto?
What presidential power did Jackson often use?
300
What is the temperance movement?
want to reduce poverty and domestic violence by limiting alcohol.
300
Who are the Grimke Sisters?
daughters of slave-owner who supported abolition and women's rights
300
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Acquisition that completed the US/Mexico border
400
What did the Monroe Doctrine establish?
Warns European countries against interfering in this part of the world.
400
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.
400
What is abolition?
want to end the immoral practice of slavery
400
What is the Missouri Compromise?
a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery
400
How did the Mexican War increase sectionalism in the United States?
Adding territories in the west brought up the issue of slavery again.
500
What are the causes of the War of 1812?
Impressment, help the Indians fight the United States, and USA wants Canada.
500
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands.
500
What is women's suffrage?
wanted to grant voting rights to women, along with custody and property rights.
500
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
500
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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