Period 4: 1800-1848

Question 1

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 1

Monroe bought that area from french for 15mil

Question 2

Strict Interpretation

Answer 2

Government can only do what is explicitly written

Question 3

Loose Interpretation

Answer 3

Government can have a more loose interpretation of the Constitution

Question 4

Judicial Review

Answer 4

Ability of the court to declare something a violation of the constitution

Question 5

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Answer 5

Established the principle of judicial review

Question 6

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 6

States can’t tax branches of the federal gov.

Question 7

Implied Powers

Answer 7

Powers that can be reasonably inferred

Question 8

Era of Good Feelings

Answer 8

a period in American history from 1815 to 1824. It followed the Jeffersonian Era and preceded the Jacksonian Era. The Era of Good Feelings was marked by a sense of nationalism and patriotism following the War of 1812

Question 9

Economic Nationalism

Answer 9

Political movement to support the growth of the young nation’s economy by subsidizing internal improvements and protecting US industries

Question 10

Sectionalism

Answer 10

Restriction of interest to a national sphere

Question 11

American System

Answer 11

1. Federally funded internal improvements
2. Federal tariffs
3. 2nd bank of the US

Question 12

Panic of 1819

Answer 12

1st US widespread financial crisis

Question 13

Missouri Compromise

Answer 13

Missouri became a state but so did Maine to keep balance in the House of Representatives, any new states under the 36-30 line would be slave states, and above free states

Question 14

War Hawks

Answer 14

Someone who favors war

Question 15

Impressment

Answer 15

England taking US citizens off boats and forcing them into service

Question 16

Nonintercourse Act

Answer 16

Permitted trade with places other than France and Britain

Question 17

War of 1812

Answer 17

a military conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815. The war was sparked by a variety of issues, including British interference with American trade and the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy

Question 18

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 18

A warning for European powers to not interfere in the Western hemisphere

Question 19

National Road

Question 20

Erie Canal

Answer 20

an artificial waterway constructed between 1817–1825 to connect the Hudson River at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, spanning over 350 miles across New York state. The canal’s completion was a major engineering feat of the early 19th century

Question 21

Interchangeable Parts

Answer 21

a manufacturing system which uses standardized parts which are all identical and thus, interchangeable

Question 22

Factory System

Answer 22

replaced the domestic system, using new technology and machinery to mass produce goods for the United States

Question 23

Lowell System/Textle Mills/Unions

Answer 23

Textile factory system of the early 19th century that employed mainly young women [age 15-35] from New England farms to increase efficiency, productivity and profits. These textile mills provided dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor

Question 24

Market Revolution

Answer 24

Marked americas transition from mainly agrarian society into a firmly capitatlist society

Question 25

Spoils System

Answer 25

the political tactic of employing and promoting civil servants who are the supporters and friends of the group in power to office

Question 26

Rotation in Office

Answer 26

the removal of officeholders of the rival party on democratic grounds

Question 27

Indian Removal Act (1830)

Answer 27

Exchanged Native land that was a part of Georgia boundaries for land that was on the other side of the Missisippi River

Question 28

Corrupt Bargain

Answer 28

A political scandal that arose when the Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, allegedly met with John Quincy Adams before the House election to break a deadlock. Adams was elected president against the popular vote and Clay was named Secretary of State

Question 29

Tariff of 1828

Answer 29

raised taxes on imported manufactures so as to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing

Question 30

Nullification Crisis

Answer 30

a political dispute between the Federal Government and the government of South Carolina over tariffs that were designed to protect manufacturers in the Northern states

Question 31

Democrats

Answer 31

Jackson, resembled the Federalist Party under Hamilton

Question 32

Whigs

Answer 32

Henry Clay, resembled the Democratic-Republicans under Jefferson

Question 33

Oneida Community

Answer 33

Wanted to be a perfect society, the idea was everything was shared including children and spouses

Question 34

Antebellum

Answer 34

Pre-Civil War

Question 35

Romanticism

Answer 35

Championed emotional reality over/against rational reality

Question 36

Transcendentalists

Answer 36

Artistic expression was more important than wealth, highly valued individualism and downplayed the importance of organized institutions

Question 37

Second Great Awakening

Answer 37

A series of religious revivals among protestant Christians emphasized righteous living, personal restraint, and a strong moral rectitude that would lead a person and society to salvation

Question 38

Temperance

Answer 38

Abstinence from drinking

Question 39

Asylum Movement

Answer 39

Structure and discipline would bring about moral reform

Question 40

Penitentiaries

Answer 40

New prisons in PA where prisoners were placed in solitary confinement to force them to reflect on sins and repent; high rate of prisoner suicides caused the end of the system

Question 41

Common/Public School Movement

Answer 41

Reform movement started in the Jacksonian Era focused on the need for free public schools for children of all classes

Question 42

Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Answer 42

Leading feminists met in 1848 and issued a document closely modeled after the Declaration of Independence

Question 43

Abolition

Answer 43

The movement to end slavery

Question 44

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 44

Viewed women as moral leaders of the home to shape their childrens minds

Question 45

Nat Turner

Answer 45

Rebelled against his masters and killed them, with him and other slaves killing 55 white people in total before being hung

Question 46

Peculiar Institution

Answer 46

Slavery referred to as a “peculiar insitution” because some Whites were sensitive about how they treated other people