Unit 4 Fluency Facts Flashcards
Market Revolution:
Who: American People, innovators, investors
What: Major economic transformation from transportation revolution, commercialization, and industrialization
Where: United States, localized in the North
When: 1800-40
Why: Widened wealth gap, shift from agrarian to industrialized/commercial, middle class changed
Marbury v Madison:
Who: William Marbury (Suing Judge), James Madison, John Marshall (Judicial guy)
What: Adams Midnight Judges, James Madison refuses to deliver, Marbury sues for documents
Where: United States
When: 1803:
Why: Establish Supreme Court Power & Judicial Review - can declare constitutionality
American System:
Who: Henry Clay (Kentucky Representative), James Madison
What: National bank, tariff on imported goods, funding for roads and canals - latter vetoed by Madison
Where: United States
When: 1816-30
Why: Gov sponsored economic development, new industries, cutting out foreign industry
Missouri Compromise:
Who: Slave v. Free States, Henry Clay
What: Decision over admittance of Missouri, slap Maine in - senate balance. Established boundary for slave states
Where: United States, Missouri/Maine, 36th parallel
When: 1820:
Why: Caused pollical kerfuffle (Civil War Foreshadowing) kept senate balance
Monroe Doctrine
Who: John Quincy Adams (Adams Son), James Monroe
What: Proclamation forbidding western hemisphere for further European colonization
When: 1823
Where: United States, West Hemi
Why: Lack military force, need British enforcement. Big bark from small dog
2nd Great Awakening:
Who: Southerners: slaves, white owners, Finney, Cartwright
What: Religious revival in Burned Out District (New York), spreads south amongst slaves and white southerners. Leads to new Protestant sects.
Where: New York, Southern States
When: 1790’s to 1840’s
Why: Abolitionist fervor, must uplift community out of sin. Spawns reform movements!
Indian Removal Act:
Who: Andrew Jackson, Congress, Southern Native American tribes
What: Relocation of Native American tribes either by purchase of land, or by force if necessary.
Where: Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida to Oklahoma
When: 1828-54
What: Jackson ignores SCOTUS decisions on “domestics nations” - bad precedent. Trail of Tears cause.
Nat Turner Rebellion:
Who: Nat Turner:
What: Enslaved revolt led by Nat Turner
Where: Virginia
When: 1831
Why: Ultimately unsuccessful. Turner executed, organized emancipation efforts dwindled and harsher punishments were instituted toward enslaved.
Nullification Crisis
Who: Andrew Jackson, South Carolina, John Calhoun (former VP)
What: South Carolina responds negatively to the Tariff of 1832 and nullifies it. Jackson issues Force Bill. Eventually a compromise was reached with Tariff of 1833. South Carolina ends nullification, but nullifies the Force Bill to spite Jackson.
Where: South Carolina, United States
When: 1832-3
Why: States rights, economic downturn of Southern states, powder keg
Bank War:
Who: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, Henry Clay
What: Jackson opposed rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States - unelected, corrupt. Vetoes bill.
Where: United States
When: 1832
Why: Effectively ended the 1st American System. Led to the formation of the Whigs who were opposed to Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party.
Second American Party System:
Who: Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Democrats, Whigs
What: Terms for Jacksonian-party system
Where: United States
When: 1828-54
Why: Reflected and shaped the political, social, and cultural attitudes that existed during Jacksonian era.
Seneca Fall Convention:
Who: Women, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What: Women’s rights conventio
Where; Seneca Falls, upstate New York
When: 1848
Why: First women’s rights convention. Resulted in Declaration of Sentiments - Constitutional lookalike. Part of national reform response to Market Revolution.
