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| Small Southwestern strip of land purchased by Us from Mexico in 1853 for $10 million. |
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| Outspoken New England abolitionist and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator" |
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| Sarah and Angelina-daughters of SC planter |
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| 7th President of the U.S. Represented the "rise of the Common man" with universal white man suffrage. Hero fo the Battle of New Orleans. |
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| Early American New England author (Scarlet Letter), promoted Puritan values and ethics |
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| Hudson River School of Artists |
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| Early American artists who depicted the natural and seemingly boundless wonders of the new American landscape. |
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| Passed by Congress under Jackson, federal government was to provide funds to negotiate treates that would force Indians to move West. |
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| New York auther- "Rip Van Winkle" "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
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| Nativist American group of the first 1/2 of the 19th century dedicated to undermining equal rights for immigrants |
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| Captains of the expedition commissioned by Jefferson to explore the LA Purchase in 1804 |
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| Belief that God wanted America to expand to the west |
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| 1st Secretary of Education in Massachusetts, |
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| Invented automatic reaper in 1840s, allowed few laborers to harvest more acres of wheat, caused many farm workers to move to cities |
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| McCulloch v. Maryland 1819 |
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| Supreme Court case in which Chief Justice John Marshall ruled the Marylan couldn't tax the bank of the US- Strengthened federal authority |
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| Expansionist war undertaken by Pres. James K. Polk in the late 1840s in which the US gained about 1/2 of Mexico's territory- reopened the question of the expansion of slavery into new territory |
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| 1820 Compromise authored by Henry Clay on slave expansion issue, MO became a slave state and ME became a free |
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| Inventor of telegraph(1837). Vastly increased the speed of communication across great distances |
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| Prominet abolitionist and women's rights activist throughout the 19th century |
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| 1831 rebellion stated by a VA slave who believed he received divine messages telling him ethe time was right for a rebellion |
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| Feeling of native-born americans that immigrants were being given too much control over America |
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| Neoclassical Architecture |
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| American attempt to copy Greek and Roman styles of architecture |
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| Indiana utopian settlement |
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| New York community founded in 1848 that encouraged free love, birth control, and eugenic selection of parents |
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| Trail from independence, MO to Portland |
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| A chain reaction of bank failures |
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| State banks in which Jackson deposited all federal funds in his attempt to kill the band of the United States |
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| Changes in penal institutions that emphasized rehabilitation (mid-19th century) |
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| Idea that punishment should be used to reform the imprisoned so that they may reenter society as productive citizens |
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| 1848 women's rights meeting at which the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments was presented |
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| Cherokee Indian credited with establishing a written version of his language to help spread literacy among the Cherokee tribe |
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| South Carolina Exposition and protest |
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| John C. Calhoun's 1828 pamphlet which outlined his belief on why states should be able to nullify federal actions. Used to justify protection states' rights and eventually secession |
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| South Carolina Nulification Crisis |
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| SC's 1832 action to nullify the so-called Tariff of Abominations. Acted on the South Carolina Exposition and Protest. Jackson threatens force and South Carolina backs down. |
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| Political practice of giving one's supporters government jobs regadless of merit. |
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| Women's right activist who helped lead the Seneca Falls Convention |
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| continued to fight for the female suffrage |
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| the right to vote. 1830s property qualifications dropped creating universal white male suffrage |
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| Tax on imports. Major revenue of the U.S. government in the 19th century. |
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| 1828 tariff on manufactured goods, South's term for it because they had to pay inflated prices on manufactured goods while the cost of their cotton remained the same |
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| US takeover of TX in 1845, 7 years after Texans invited the US to do so, hotly contested in Congress because of slavery expansion issue |
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| Early American transcendentalist author, practiced early form of civil disobedience |
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| French writer who expanded the idea of American democracy and advocated prison reform in America |
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| 1838-1839 mass exodus of the remaining Cherokee in the Southeastern US to Western Indiean Territories |
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| Treath of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
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| Treaty that ended the Mexican War, US gained Mexican Cession, about 1/2 of Mexico's territory and much of the present-day Southwestern US. |
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| Runaway slave who traveled the nation speaking on abolition. Spoke at Seneca Falls Convention |
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| Communities established in the mid-19th century based on the idea that all individuals receive equal shares of wealth for an equal amount of work |
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| Free blacks. Encouraged slaves to fight for their freedom rather than wait for the end of slavery |
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| Main editor of Webster's Dictionary, which standardized the English language in the US |
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| Early American political party that favored wealthy northern merchants and bankers opposed to Jackson |
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| Universal white male suffrage |
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| idea that as US democracy progressed voting restrictions on white males were eased allowing Jackson's popularity in the ELection of 1824 and finally his victory in the Election of 1828 |
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| Inventor of cotton gin, increased profitability of cotton production, and the need for African slaves |
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| Amendment to a Congressional provision that if passed would have guaranteed that slavery wouldn't be extened into any part of the Mexican Cession. |
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| Worchester v. Georgia, 1832 |
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| Supreme Court ruling that GA wasn't entitled to regulate or invade Cherokeelands. Jackson overstepped his presidential powers by refusing to abide by the ruling |
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