APUSH TERMS 3 Flashcards
Most important Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who kept the Federalist ideals alive long after the party faded into history.
John Marshall
John Marshall’s landmark supreme court case that established the principle of judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court case that established the principle of implied powers and upheld the constitutionality of the bank “the power to tax is the power to destroy”.
McCulloch v. Maryland
The alleged deal between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay in the Election of 1824 that stole the election from Andrew Jackson.
Corrupt Bargain
The political party formed as the anti-Jackson party by Henry Clay and supporters of the American System, and southern “States rights” advocates.
Whig Party
Andrew Jackson (Old Hickory) opposition to a National Bank (an idea by Henry Clay) prompted him to remove Federal deposits and place them in State Banks.
Pet Banks
The idealized description political supporters of Jackson used to promote his candidacy for president.
Common Man
1832-33 was over the tariff policy of the Fed. Government, during Jackson’s presidency which prompted South Carolina to threaten the use of Nullification possible secession and Andrew Jackson’s determination to end it with military force.
Nullification Crisis
Act that directed the mandatory relocation of eastern tribes to territory west of the Mississippi River. Jackson insisted that his goal was to save the Indians and their culture. Indians resisted the controversial act, but in the end most were forced to comply.
Indian Removal Act 1830 /Trail of Tears
During the age of reform 1825-1859 he was an outspoken reformer who focused on education
Horace Mann
19th century belief that men were superior in worldly pursuits and women were superior in their moral influences
Doctrine of Separate Spheres
1836-1870 these were used by schools to expose children to a common curriculum that preached honesty, industry (hard work), and patriotism.
McGuffy Readers
Southern Whigs who supported slavery. Northern Whigs who opposed slavery
Cotton Whigs/ Conscience Whigs
Socio-religious group of “perfectionists”. Begun in 1848 its members shared property, complex marriage, and raising of the children in communal form to reach a utopian society.
Oneida Community
Political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
Free Soil Party 1847/48
Slave who led a bloody revolt in 1831 and who believed he was divinely inspired to kill his master and other slave owners. 60 men, women and children were killed by his followers. Southern States wrote more restrictive slave laws limiting the movement of slaves
Nat Turner
The historical term used to identify slavery prior to the Civil War
Peculiar Institution
An almost religious belief prior to the Mexican American War that the U.S. should possess the North American continent from east to west.
Manifest Destiny
This bill was presented during the Mexican-American War. It stipulated that none of the territory acquired should be opened to slavery.
Wilmot Proviso (1846)
Secretive Nativist political party that opposed Immigration during the 1840’s and early 1850’s. Officially called the American Party
Know Nothing Party
1st national meeting for women’s suffrage held in 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton issued the “Declaration of Sentiments” calling for the equality of the sexes.
Seneca Falls
A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine technology that transformed the cotton textile industries. Ended the factory system
1st Industrial Revolution
Creator of the American steamboat who started the era of commercial steam navigation.
Robert Fulton
The dramatic increase between 1820-1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions. It reflected the increased output of farms and factories, activities of traders and merchants, and the creation of a transportation network of roads, canals, and railroads.
Market Revolution
