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Expansion and Reform
1801-1850
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History
11th Grade
02/15/2010

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The national bank was ruled constitutional by:
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McCulloch V. Maryland
Term
Horris man led the movement for:
Definition
Public education
Term
The political party formed by oppenents of Jackson:
Definition
The whigs
Term
The no-nothing party was opposed to:
Definition
Immigration
Term
The leader of the 1st setlers to go to Texas was:
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Steven Austin
Term
Robert Fulton invented:
Definition
Steam boat
Term
Who was a warhawk and a great compromiser?
Definition
Henry Clay
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Who was the whig winner who had the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"?
Definition
William Henry Harrison
Term
With which country did the US divide oregon after "54-40 or fight"?
Definition
Britain
Term
Who served one term because of the panic of 1837?
Definition
Martin Van Buren
Term
The Cherokees were sent west on the Trais of Tears though they won:
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Worcester V. Georgia
Term
Who led South Carolina's proteest of tariff of abominations and threatened to succeed?
Definition
John Calhoun
Term
Name two parts of the American System:
Definition
(1)Protective tariff
(2)Nation bank
(3) Internal improvements
Term
What is nativism?
Definition
Anti-immigrant (opposition to immigrants)
Term
What is Manifest Destiny?
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Belief that American expansion was part of God's plan
Term
Lewis and Clark Expedition esplored:
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Louisiana purchase to the Pacific Ocean
Term
Who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Definition
Sacajewea
Term
What trail resulted in the discovery of gold?
Definition
The CA trail
Term
How did the Missouri Compromise keep balance?
Definition
By adding Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
Term
What marked the slavery boundary in the rest of LA Purchase?
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Missouri's southern border
Term
What decreased during James Monroe's presidency?
Definition
Sectionalist (Competition between North, South, and West)
Term
What did the Monroe Doctorine do?
Definition
Warned Europeans to stay out of the Americas
Term
Who won the election of 1824?
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John Quincy Adams, even though Andrew Jackson had more popular votes
Term
Who decided the election of 1824?
Definition
House of representatives
Term
Who became secretary of state in the election of 1824?
Definition
Henry Clay
Term
What was Jackson's policy of giving government jobs to friends called?
Definition
The spoils system
Term
Who stopped SC's threat to secede during nullification crisis?
Definition
Jackson
Term
After winning in 1832, what did Jackson do?
Definition
Withdrew funds and made depposits in state, or pet, banks
Term
Where did Mexico's Antonia Santa Anna-led army defeat the Texans (Incl. Davy Crockett)
Definition
The Alamo
Term
Who pushed for Texas Statehood even though slavery was an issue?
Definition
John Tyler
Term
What did James Polk do after winning in 1844?
Definition
Threatened war with Britain over Oregon and sent troops to the Mexican border (Rio Grande)
Term
Where did the US forces win battles during the Mexican War?
Definition
Along the border, in Mexica City, and in California
Term
Who were the US forces led by during the Mexican War?
Definition
Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott
Term
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe?
Definition
Hidalgo gave the US the territories of New Mexico and California
Term
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Definition
Revival that supported improvements in society
Term
Who helped the mentally ill?
Definition
Dorothea Dix
Term
Who pushed for public schools?
Definition
Horace Mann
Term
Who led the temperance (anti-alcohol) movement?
Definition
Carrie Nation
Term
What was the first women's rights meeting and who was it led by?
Definition
The Seneca Falls Convention; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B Anthony
Term
Who tried to create perfect societies?
Definition
Utopian communities such as New Harmony and Brook Farm
Term
Who was the abolitionist (anti-slavery) movement led be?
Definition
William Lloyd Garrison and his newspaper "The Liberator"
Term
Who caused 60 whites to be killed during Nat Turner's Rebellion in VA?
Definition
David Walker
Term
What two daughters of SC slave owners fought to end slavery?
Definition
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Term
What former slave gave emotional speeches?
Definition
Frederick Douglass
Term
Who led the underground RR?
Definition
Harriet Tubman
Term
Who traveled the nation speaking out against slavery?
Definition
Sojourner Truth
Term
What did Samuel Slater's factories rely on?
Definition
Immigrants
Term
Who were German and Irish newcomers opposed by?
Definition
The know-nothings
Term
Samuel Morse invented the:
Definition
Telegraph
Term
John Deere invented the:
Definition
Steel plow
Term
Cyrus McCormick invented the:
Definition
Grain Reaper
Term
What helped create an "American" language?
Definition
Noah Webster's dictionary
Term
What school painted rivers, canyons ,etc. of the US Frontier?
Definition
The Hudson River School of Artists
Term
What did neoclassical architecture imitate?
Definition
Greece and Rome
Term
Who wrote about the frontier?
Definition
James Finimore Cooper
Term
Who wrote horror stories and poems?
Definition
Edgar Allen Poe
Term
Who wrote detailed stuories of Puritan New England?
Definition
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Term
Transcendentalism is:
Definition
Self-reliance
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