What was the main focus of the Know Nothing Party?
Immigration
Why did the Mormons leave Illinois?
They were chased out by the IL government.
Who was the leader of the Mormons?
Joseph Smith
Who lead a revolt which caused shock waves through the South?
Nat Turner
Where did the Mormon’s settle after leaving the mid-west?
Utah
What was the main goal of the people who created a Utopian society?
A perfect society
What was the Underground Railroad?
A series of secret trails and pathways that led to the North.
Where was the location of a Utopian society of the 1800’s?
New Harmony, IN
_____________ valued a simple lifestyle and was discussed by various authors during the early 1800’s.
Transcendentalism
Describe the Lowell Factory System.
Provided a way for young unmarried women to work and make money for their family before getting married.
According the theory of the “Cult of Domesticity”, how should women be in the early 1800’s?
Seen and not heard.
The abolitionist movement gained momentum from what other social issue/movement?
Women’s Rights
Famous Underground RR Conductor
Harriet Tubman
Trail used by people moving west
Oregon Trail
Texas was a part of what country?
Mexico
Location of battle between Texans and Mexican Army
Alamo
the theory that America should stretch from coast to coast.
Manifest Destiny
What ocean had to be reached to make Manifest Destiny a reality?
Pacific
What was discovered in CA in 1849?
Gold
Nickname for people who moved the CA during the gold rush
49ers
Describe a patriot
Someone who wanted to break away from the British government
Describe a loyalist
Someone who wanted to stay under British control
This US President established precedent for future office holders by such actions as forming the first cabinet and establishing presidential protocol
Washington
What is the location of the first successful English settlement?
Jamestown
Describe the Colombian Exchange?
A successful trade route between the Europe and the Americas.
Who made the Louisiana Purchase?
T. Jefferson
The Treaty of ______________________ included the US land purchase of the 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
Guadeloupe Hidalgo
The development of labor unions stemmed from: ______________
Workers coming together due to terrible working conditions.
Invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
__________ wagons helped Americans travel to the west.
Conestoga
Author of “Moby Dick”
Herman Melville
Final destination of the Trail of Tears
Oklahoma
Home of Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
Came into the union as a slave
state as a result of the Missouri
Compromise.
Missouri
Led the charge in South Carolina for nullification
John C. Calhoun
President of Texas
Sam Houston
Won the Presidential election as a
result of the “Corrupt Bargain”
John Q. Adams
Who invented
interchangeable
parts and the
cotton gin?
Eli
Whitney
Who proposed the
American System
to improve
infrastructure?
Henry
Clay
What invention
revolutionized
agriculture in
the South?
Cotton
Gin
The Industrial Revolution changed
the way people worked by
___________________________
Replacing
manual labor
with machines.
Describe
the Corrupt
Bargain.
The situation surrounding John Q. Adams winning the Presidency of 1824 by offering a job to Speaker of the House Henry Clay for his support in the getting House of Representatives to vote for Adams over Jackson.
Describe
the spoils
system.
The practice of giving government jobs to supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for helping a person win an elected position.
Describe
the Trail of
Tears.
The Cherokee Nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present day Oklahoma.
What was the
Indian Removal
Act of 1830?
Authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
What was
the Panic
of 1837?
Financial crisis in the US that created a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up.
What new
political party
was formed in
mid-1830s?
Whigs
What
happened to
President
Henry Harrison?
He died
one month
into office.
What was
the Lowell
System?
A labor and production model employed in the United States, in New England, during the early years of the American textile industry in the early 1800s.
Describe the
Northern society
of the early 1800s
to mid-1800s.
Industrial, large cites, small farms, relied on cheap labor, supported tariffs, did not want to expand west, and wanted a strong central government.
Describe the
Southern society
of the early 1800s
to mid-1800s.
Primarily agricultural, opposed tariffs, operated mainly on slave labor, promoted states rights, and wanted the expand west.
