-
It led to the Temperance Movement, the Women's suffrage Movement and the Abolitionist Movement in which people advocated for emancipation on religious grounds.
-
A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
-
The Democratic-Republicans defeated the Federalists for the first time.
-
Showed how fully African Americans embraced central currents of American politics and culture.
-
The first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of "judicial review" -- the power of federal courts to void acts of Congress in conflict with the Constitution.
-
A land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River
-
A law passed by the United State Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson that prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports
-
A naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia
-
The sixth quadrennial presidential election
-
Lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports.
-
Started the Industrial Revolution in America
-
A treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
-
Led to the collapse of the Indian resistance.
-
A British invasion of Washington, D.C.
-
The New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812.
-
The War of 1812 ended with The Treaty of Ghent and said nothing about the maritime issues that had caused the war and contained nothing to suggest that America had achieved its aims.
-
A decisive victory was followed shortly afterward by news of a peace treaty
-
A peace treaty ending the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States.
-
a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.
-
The Republican candidate who defeated Rufus King, the Federalist candidate
-
Resolved lingering boundary disputes between British North America and the United States of America.
-
A treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
-
Gave Congress the power to establish a national bank.
-
Banks throughout the country failed; mortgages were foreclosed, forcing people out of their homes and off their farms.
-
A landmark decision in United States corporate law from the United States Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations.
-
A bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
-
A failed slave revolt the failed because a slave told his slave owner.
-
A foreign policy statement which created separate spheres of European and American influence.
-
Outspoken in his opposition to slavery and in support of freedom of speech.
-
A landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce
-
It connected Lake Erie and the Great Lakes system to the Hudson River, and thereby gave the western states direct access to the Atlantic Ocean without shipping goods downstream on the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
-
A Community intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony.
-
The protective tariffs taxed all foreign goods, to boost the sales of US products and protect Northern manufacturers from cheap British goods.
-
Sermons about heavy drinking in America.
-
Democrat Andrew Jackson defeated National Republican
-
An act that authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
-
Founded the Mormon Church.
-
Led to the establishment of reform movements to address injustices and alleviate suffering
-
A case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state
-
He argued that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution.
-
The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina.
-
It involved a number of men who would go on to important national political and military careers, not least three future presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis.
-
The party was formed opposing the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party.
-
It cost three men their lives and provided the legal basis for the Trail of Tears.
-
Promoted equal access of education of women for a full range of subjects.
-
A group of New England intellectuals of the early-to-mid-19th century which gave rise to Transcendentalism.
-
A series of graded primers for grade levels 1-6.
-
Led to Texas being a state of the US.
-
An important battle for Texans fighting for independence from Mexico.
-
His policies were unpopular and he failed to win a second term.
-
The government would only accept gold or silver in payment for federal land.
-
A crisis in financial and economic conditions in the nation following changes in the banking system initiated by President Andrew Jackson and his Specie Circular that effectively dried up credit.
-
A speech to a group of graduating divinity students, their professors, and local ministers on July 15, 1838, at Divinity Hall that questioned the validity of holy communion. He discussed the failures of historical Christianity.
-
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.
-
Settled disputes over the northern boundary between the United States and Canada.
-
These arrangements made up a complex of foreign privileges by virtue of the most-favored-nation clauses conceded to every signatory.
-
Led the nation into the Mexican-American War
-
The territorial expansion of the United States
-
Texas became the 28th state in the USA.
-
Led to the The Treaty of Guadalupe, the oldest treaty still in force between the United States and Mexico.
-
A party of more than 30 Americans invaded the largely defenseless Mexican outpost of Sonoma just north of San Francisco.
-
Started the "Common School Movement" a movement devoted to creating a more equitable public school system characterized by quality teachers and a nonsectarian approach.
-
A utopian religious community that developed out of a Society of Inquiry.
-
Added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory.
-
Had severe effects on Native Californians and resulted in a precipitous population decline from disease, genocide and starvation.
-
Re-established for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world.
-
An agreement between the United States and Mexico in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
-
Espouses the need to prioritize one's conscience over the dictates of laws.
-
The first treaty between Japan and the United States that was signed by Commodore Matthew Perry and Shogunate representatives of the Japanese government
