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The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States.
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Cotton Gin was a machine designed to separate the seeds out of cotton dramatically increasing the production time.
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A literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France. It doubled the size of the United States.
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Established judicial review.
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Expedition across the United States to explore the new Louisiana purchase
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An act that prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports.
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An encounter between an American and British ship. Led to the Embargo Act of 1807
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4th President of the United States. Beat Charles Pickney. Wrote Bill of Rights.
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This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports. Its intent was to damage the economies of the United Kingdom and France.
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His death marked the end of Indian resistance West of the Mississippi.
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Francis Cabot Lowell brought memorized plans for a power loom from England.
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The convention discussed removing the three-fifths compromise which gave slave states more power in Congress and requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress for the admission of new states, declarations of war, and laws restricting trade.
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Last major battle of the War of 1812
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British soldiers attacked Washington DC in an attempt to weaken the United States.
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Marked the end of the War of 1812
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The Treaty of Ghent was signed and the War of 1812 ended.
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Most often associated with the territorial expansion of the United States
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The mood of victory that swept the nation at the end of the War of 1812. False exaltation replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, between northern and southern states, and between east-coast cities and settlers on the western frontier.
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Treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes.
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Strengthened American foreign policy.
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Established the northern United States border.
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Also known as the Florida Treaty, the United States gains Florida from Spain.
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The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland.
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The Panic of 1819 was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy
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A case in which the Court argued that the charter to Dartmouth College was a contract between private parties, and that the New Hampshire government's attempt to turn the College into a public institution was unconstitutional under the contract clause.
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In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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Never occured. Denmark Vesey was a literate free black man who attempted to plan a slave revolt.
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A US policy that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
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JQA supposedly made a deal with Henry Clay to get himself appointed President after there was no majority leader from the Electoral College.
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A landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce.
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The canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east.
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The burned-over district refers to the western and central regions of New York where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place.
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Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist and social reformer, purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony.
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he delivered and published six sermons on intemperance. They were sent throughout the United States, ran rapidly through many editions in England, and were translated into several languages.
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Industries in the northern United States were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goods. The South, however, was harmed directly by having to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce.
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Incumbent President John Quincy Adams lost to Andrew Jackson.
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She founded a school for girls in Hartford, Connecticut, aimed at training women to become mothers and teachers.
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Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.
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The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands.
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The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
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The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable
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The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.
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All non-Native Americans were indicted in the supreme court for the county of Gwinnett in the state of Georgia for "residing within the limits of the Cherokee nation without a license"
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It originally formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party.
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Jackson argued in his veto message that the bank’s charter was unfair because it gave the bank considerable, almost monopolistic, market power, specifically in the markets that moved financial resources around the country and into and out of other nations.
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It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia.
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Met in Cambridge, Massachusetts to discuss the formation of a new club that would eventually lead to the Transcendentalist movement.
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Known for creating the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used textbooks in the U.S.
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He founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".
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The formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution.
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Though vastly outnumbered, the Alamo's 200 defenders held out courageously for 13 days before the Mexican invaders finally overpowered them.
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An American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841.
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a United States presidential executive order requiring payment for government land to be in gold and silver.
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A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
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Horace Mann, often called the Father of the Common School, used his position to enact major educational reform.
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The speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School.
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A treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies.
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Allowed American citizens to merchandize equally in the five treaty ports.
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James K. Polk, a Democrat, assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election.
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During his tenure, U.S. President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date.
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Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande.
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A short-lived independence rebellion precipitated by American settlers in California's Sacramento Valley against Mexican authorities.
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The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory.
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Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
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Gold was found in California, sparking Westward expansion.
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Sought to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world.
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A region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed by a U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time.
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The first treaty between the United States of America and the Tokugawa Shogunate.
