front 1 Specie Circular | back 1 An executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson requiring that payment for the purchase of public lands be made executively in gold or silver. Van Buren and the Panic of 1837. |
front 2 John C. Calhoun | back 2 The theory of nullification |
front 3 National Republicans | back 3 Republicans who favored a national bank and federal funding for internal improvements like roads, canals, and bridges |
front 4 Democratic Republicans | back 4 Saw itself as a champion of republicanism and denounced the Federalists as supporters of monarchy and aristocracy |
front 5 Black Hawk War | back 5 Indian's were uprooted and forced to leave their homes |
front 6 Trail of Tears | back 6 Cherokees' 800-mile journey from the Southern Appalachians to Indian Territory. Cherokee resistance through the courts. |
front 7 Nicholas Biddle | back 7 Bank War |
front 8 Baltimore and Ohio Company | back 8 America's first railroad |
front 9 Western Union Telegraph Co | back 9 By 1860 all independent telegraph lines had joined under one organization |
front 10 Seminole War | back 10 Conflict that began in Florida in 1817 between the Seminole Indians and the U.S. Army when the Seminoles resisted removal. |
front 11 Lowell System | back 11 Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill towns, homes for workers or live in around the mills. |
front 12 Oberlin College | back 12 First college to admit women |
front 13 Nativism | back 13 Anti-immigrant policy |
front 14 Nullification | back 14 A doctrine forcefully made by John C. Calhoun in 1828, asserting that a state could invalidate federal legislation the state regarded as unconstitutional. |
front 15 Cult of Domesticity | back 15 The ideal woman was seen as a self-sacrificing caregiver who provided a safe and peaceful place for her family. |
front 16 Sarah Bagley | back 16 Labor leader |
front 17 Elizabeth Keckley | back 17 American activist |
front 18 Yeoman Farmer | back 18 Owned his own modest farm and worked it primarily with family labor remains the embodiment of the ideal American. |
front 19 Pidgin | back 19 Slave language and music |
front 20 Hill People | back 20 Southern lower class for white people |
front 21 In the 1830's a fully formed two-party system emerged. What two parties came out of this system? | back 21 The Whig party and the Democrats |
front 22 What was the process of nullification? Who proposed it, and what was he hoping to remedy? | back 22 A political dispute between the Federal Government and the government of South Carolina over tariffs that were designated to protect manufactures in the Northern states who were competing with British manufactures. |
front 23 Who were the five civilized tribes who were forcibly removed during Jackson's Indian Removal Program? Which tribe offered the most resistance, and was the only incomplete removal? | back 23 Cherokee, Muscogee (creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations |
front 24 What is the difference between the hard money and the soft money fractions? | back 24 Hard money wanted gold or silver currency and not paper money the national bank printed. Soft money printed more paper money at state levels. |
front 25 What caused the increase in population in the nation in the 1800's? What were the predominant nations immigrants came from? | back 25 Many people immigrated to the U.S. due to crop failure, land, and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine in their home countries. |
front 26 Nativism rose tremendously in the mid-19th century.What was this in reaction to? What political parties that developed out of this movement? | back 26 In reaction to the potato famine and the fleeing famine also because Americans thought that they would steal their jobs. Political parties that developed were nativist political parties. |
front 27 What group emerged and grew in importance during the 19th century? | back 27 Native American/ know nothing party |
front 28 How did the railroads, industry, and telegraph lead to sectional divisions and resentment between the North and South? | back 28 The Northern states had more railroads |
front 29 How did the telegraph revolutionize the newspaper industry? | back 29 Provided instant communication |
front 30 What was the main source of income in the South? Why did this cause them to be more dependent on the Northern states? | back 30 Cotton, because the land taken from the natives were very fertile |
front 31 What careers were considered suitable for a southern gentleman? Which were considered coarse? | back 31 Soldiers, planters, commerce, and banking |
front 32 What were the terms of the slave codes in the South, and were they uniformly enforced? What systems of labor used on slave plantations? | back 32 The slaves weren't allowed to leave property, their masters, be out late, see others unless at church, carry guns, hit white people even in self defense, testify against whites, or educate other slaves. Task system and gang system |
front 33 How was the life of city slave more likely to allow them to purchase their freedom? | back 33 They were able to gain connections to more jobs by meeting new people |
front 34 Since only 25% of southerners were slave owners, how were they able to stay in control of the South? | back 34 They were very wealthy so they were considered very powerful. |
front 35 What were some forms of non-violent resistance that slaves used? | back 35 Refusal to work, slowing down, stealing, loosing or breaking tools, and performing tasks bad |
front 36 What ways were spiritualists used by slaves? | back 36 Using music to describe their struggles, and send messages |