Indian removal act, nullification crisis, "Old Hickory," first southern/ western president, President for the "common man," spoils system, trail of tears

United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states

Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers in New Orleans on January 8, 1815; the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December, 1814, but word had not yet reached the U.S.

Jackson's presidency was the called this. He felt that democracy should be based on self-sufficient middle class with ideas formed by liberal education and a free press.

A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.

the idea that the common people should control the government

law passed in 1830 that forced many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River

Georgia cannot enforce American laws on Indian tribes

the forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma

Argument between South Carolina and the federal government regarding the role of national government

In 1828, he lead the fight against protective tariffs which hurt the south economically. Created the doctrine of nullification which said that a state could decide if a law was constitutional. This situation became known as the Nullification Crisis.

It was a new tariff proposed by Henry Clay and John Calhoun that gradually lowered the tariff to the level of the tariff of 1816 This compromise avoided civil war and prolonged the union for another 30 years.

A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s

produced in large numbers, cheaply in a factory

Invented the cotton gin

Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers

United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)

A second religious fervor that swept the nation. It converted more than the first. It also had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery.

A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written

A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women. Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869.

social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation

Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of US mental asylums

A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

American artistic movement that produced romantic renditions of local landscapes.

A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.

to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out