Unit 4 Significant Slideshow Items Flashcards
“American System”
Clay: tariffs, new infrastructure, Bank of US re-charter
Rush-Bagot Treaty provided for large
demilitarization of lakes
Missouri Compromise
MO= slave state, Maine= free, 36 30’= future boundary
“Know-Nothing Party” opposed ________ + the election of _____ ______ __________
immigration; Roman Catholic politicians
Lowell Girls
little girls who worked in factories
Samuel Slater
“Father of the American Industrial Revolution”
Erie Canal linked
Great Lakes (NY) with the Hudson River
Nat Turner led the
most famous slave revolt in US history
1820s was an era defined by the
“Rise of the Common Man”
Jackson lost 1824 election despite popular vote win and claimed there had been a
“corrupt bargain”
Jacksonian Democracy ended the
“Era of Good Feeling”
The “Era of Good Feelings” occurred during
Monroe’s presidency
Jackson openly used the
“spoils system”
1830 Indian Removal Act forced the
relocation of lands west of Mississippi River
“trail of tears”
when the indians relocated, 4k died en route to OK
Second Great Awakening was a
religious revival that sparked the early reform period
temperance movement
wanted to ban alcohol
Dorothea Dix sought better treatment for the
mentally ill and prisoners
Horace Mann started
public school
Seneca Falls Convention demanded
true universal suffrage
Manifest Destiny
god’s will for US to expand across continent to the pacific
______ ____ _________ ended the Spanish-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
US paid $15M for most of present-day southwest
