Jacksonian Era

Question 1

Treatment of native Americans

Answer 1

Indian removal act- Authorized the removal of all Native Americans
-(Worcester v. Georgia)- Cherokee tribes challenged the law in court

Question 2

National bank

Answer 2

Killed the national bank by withdrawing federal funds and investing them in local(“pet banks”)

Question 3

Second great awakening

Answer 3

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Question 4

Abolitionist movement

Answer 4

• William Lloyd Garrison(The Liberator)

- Demanded emancipation of slaves

Question 5

Temperance movement

Answer 5

• Women against use of alcohol

- Argued that it destroyed family life

Question 6

Dorothea Dix

Answer 6

• Horrified to discover the conditions of mental health facilities
• Campaign for stricter regulations
• States began to pass laws improving conditions in me steal institutions

Question 7

Horace Mann

Answer 7

• Advocated children to have an education

- Set up public schools

Question 8

Women’s rights

Answer 8

• Women denied economic and political equality
• (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)- Campaign for women’s rights
• (Seneca Falls)-“Declaration of Sentiments” in which they demanded the right to vote

Question 9

Transcendentalist movement

Answer 9

Great awakening- Led to a cultural renaissance that stressed the importance of the individual and the common man
-(Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau)-Getting in touch with nature

Question 10

Economic and territorial changes

Answer 10

• completion of Erie Canal
• Influx of large scale immigration
• technological and mechanical improvements(steamboat)
• Clays American system

Question 11

“Cotton is king” in the South

Answer 11

• Eli Whitney(cotton gin)

- revolutionized the industry by ending the process of removing the seed from the cotton