Period 4 Vocab

Question 1

“Revolution” Of 1800

Answer 1

An election that marked the transition from Federalist to Democratic-Republican dominance in American politics. It reflected Enlightenment ideas and republican ideals on the new nation. The election of Thomas Jefferson as president was seen as a peaceful transfer of power.

Question 2

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 2

The United States purchased the huge Louisiana Territory from France in 1803. President Thomas Jefferson ordered the purchase negotiations, fearing that the French, then led by Napoleon, wanted to establish an empire in North America.

Question 3

Marbury V Madison

Answer 3

Marbury v. Madison is an 1803 Supreme Court case in which Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle of Judicial Review. The decision established the Court’s power of judicial review over acts of Congress.

Question 4

American System

Answer 4

Henry Clay’s three-pronged system to promote American industry. Clay advocated a strong banking system, a protective tariff, and a federally founded transportation network.

Question 5

Missouri Compromise

Answer 5

Allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state but preserved the balance between North and South. Prohibited slavery from territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase, north of the line.

Question 6

Indian Removal Act

Answer 6

The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress in 1830 and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. The Act allowed the President to “exchange” lands west of the Mississippi for the land that indigenous people occupied within existing state boundaries. The Act provided for the resettlement of all Native Americans then residing east of the Mississippi to a newly defined Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.

Question 7

Trail of Tears

Answer 7

The land and water route used by the US government to forcefully remove thousands of Cherokee Indians from their homes between Georgia and Oklahoma. Along the way, over 4,000 Indians died.

Question 8

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 8

The Monroe Doctrine is a U.S. doctrine which stated that European powers were no longer to colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent states of the Americas.

Question 9

Lowell System

Answer 9

a paternalistic textile factory system of the early 19th century that employed mainly young women from New England farms to increase efficiency, productivity and profits in ways different from other methods

Question 10

Market Revolution

Answer 10

the industrial and transportation revolutions, the change from subsistence farming to large-scale cash farming, regional specialization, immigration, western-movement, and growth of cities

Question 11

Democrats

Question 12

Andrew Jackson

Question 13

Spoils System

Question 14

Corrupt Bargain

Question 15

Whigs

Question 16

Henry Clay

Question 17

Romanticism

Question 18

Second Great Awakening

Question 19

Utopias

Question 20

Transcendentalism

Question 21

Temperance Movement

Question 22

Abolitionism

Question 23

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 24

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