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| Clipper Ships | Fast Sailing Ships developed in 1830s for oceanic trade |
| Utopian Communities | 1840s societies attempting to remake the world in a more perfect manner, i.e Brook Farm and Oneida Community |
| Bleeding Kansas | 1854 Fight over vote to decide Free/Slave state status |
| German / Irish Immigration | 1830s-60s wave of Immigrants, sparked "Know-Nothing" party. |
| Gold Rush | 1849 Movement of people to California in search of quick riches |
| Indian Removal Act | 1830 Jackson policy to relocate Cherokee in GA to Indian territories |
| Maysville Road Veto | 1830 Jackson policy to prevent to building of a national highway |
| Mexican American War | 1846-48 War for territorial expansion in the South West |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 Women's Suffrage Movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott |
| Sherman's March Through Georgia | 1864 Use of psychological and total warfare to bring an end to the civil war |
| South Carolina Exposition and Protest | 1828 John C. Calhoun protest of the "Tariff of Abominations" |
| South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification | 1832 Ordinance declaring Tariffs null and void within South Carolina |
| Trail of Tears | 1838 Forced march of Cherokees to Indian Territory |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 Work of literature depicting the horrors of Slavery |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | 1858 Senatorial Debates often focusing on slavery |
| American Anti-Slavery Society | 1833-70 Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's suffrage advocate founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton the National Women's Suffrage Association |
| Anti-Masonic Party | 1828-38 Third political party aimed at counteracting perceived threat of "occult" group US interests |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1849 receives her medical degrees; in 1868 founds first women's medical college |
| John Brown | Fought in Bleeding Kansas; in 1859 seizes the armory at Harper's Ferry in a failed attempt to spark a slave uprising |
| James Buchanan | Democrat, 15th President of US, fails to act to prevent coming civil war |
| Emerson and Thoreau | Transcendentalists, writers, philosophers, Utopians, residents of Brook Farm, Walden Pond |
| Millard Filmore | Whig, 13th President, assumes presidency on death of Zachary Taylor. Later runs as a member of "Know-Nothing" party |
| Free Soil Party | 1848-1852, Abolitionist 3rd party. |
| William Henry Harrison | 9th President, shortest serving, oldest (till Reagan), Whig, victor at Tippecanoe |
| Andrew Jackson | Democrat, 7th President, loser to Quincy Adams in 1828, Victor in 1832-36. Spoils system. Kills Bank. Removes Cherokees. Populist |
| Know Nothing Party | 1845-60, Anti-immigrant, anti-catholic 3rd party |
| Liberty Party | 1840-48, Abolitionist 3rd party founded by William Lloyd Garrison |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican 16th President, Great Emancipator |
| Horace Mann | 1830s Educational Reformer, founder of "normal schools" |
| Mormon Church | Founded 1830s by Joseph Smith, moved Salt Lake Valley under Brigham Young in 1840s, persecuted Christian sect |
| Franklin Pierce | Democrat, 14th President during Kansas-Nebraska debate |
| James Polk | Democrat, 11th President, solves Oregon border dispute, engages in Mexican-American War and Gasden Purchase |
| Republican Party | Founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery expansion party |
| Shakers | Protestant Religious sect founded in 1747, formed communal utopian groups with shared work and rewards, believed in celibacy |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Women's Rights activist and writer, organizes Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 |
| Zachary Taylor | Whig, 12th President. Former General from Mexican-American War. Dies in office |
| Temperance Societies | Anti-alcohol groups also involved in Abolitionist and Women's rights |
| Nat Turner | Leader of 1831 Slave Revolt in Virginia |
| Martin Van Buren | Democrat, 8th President, former Vice-President of Jackson continues Jacksonian policies |
| Whig Party | 1833-56 Opposition party to Jackson's Democrats, favored economic protectionism, eventually is absorbed by the Republican Party |
| Workingmen's Party | 1828 first Labor Union, demanded 10-11 hour working day and universal male sufferage |
| Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge | 1837 case holding that awarding of a new bridge contract did not violate constitutional requirement to make no "Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts" |
| Cherokee Nation v Georgia | 1831 finding the Cherokees were a "dominated independent nation" and therefore outside of the limits of the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction |
| Worcester v. Georgia | 1832 finding that States no authority to regulate Indian lands, only congress could do that. Ruling ignored by Georgia and not enforced by Jackson |
| Compromise of 1850 | CA admitted as free state, slave trade was abolished in D.C., New Mexico and Utah allowed to vote on slavery, Fugitive Slave Act passed, Texas slave, but gave up some western land |
| Compromise Tariff | 1833 Solution proposed by Henry Clay to end Nullification crisis, gradually eliminated the Tariff of Abominations |
| Confiscation Act | 1861 act permitting the seizure of any property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate states |
| Confederate States of America | 1861-65 Southern States which seceded from the Union during the Civil War |
| Dred Scott v Stanford | 1857 holding that slaves or their descendants could never be citizens of US and had no right to sue. Further it found that properties rights of slave owners trumped Free State laws. Finally denied right to regulate slave ownership in federal territories |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 Presidential order freeing slaves in states currently in rebellion against the Union |
| Freeport Doctrine | 1858 argument by Stephen Douglas that territories could prohibit slavery without violation of Dred Scott ruling |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Part of 1850 Compromise, made aiding runaway slaves a crime and aided in their return to masters |
| Homestead Act | 1862 act granting title to unclaimed land up to 160 acres to anyone who farmed and improved that land |
| Independent Treasury Act | 1840, 1846 made the US treasury and independent entity from any National Bank |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 repeal of Missouri Compromise, allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on Free / Slave |
| Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | 1863 decree offering full pardon for Southern citizens who take an oath of loyalty to Union |
| Morrill Land Grant Act | 1862 established the Land Grant Colleges |
| Oregon Territory | 1848-59 Destination for western emigration. Joined Union as free state in 1859 |
| Oregon Treaty | 1846 treaty with Britain finalizing borders of Oregon, enabled formation of Oregon Territory |
| Ostend Manifesto | 1854 secret attempt to acquire Cuba from Spain |
| Tariff of Abominations | 1828 High Tariff on European goods, sparked the Nullification crisis |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 1848 Treaty ending the Mexican-American War granting US control of much of SW US. |
| Trent Affair | 1861 US navy intercepts British Mail ship and removes Confederate diplomats headed for England |
| Wade-Davis Bill | 1864 Bill requiring an oath of never having supported the Confederacy for re-admittance to Union. Pocket vetoed by Lincoln |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 1842 treaty with Canada settling border of Maine and Great Lakes region |
| Wilmot Proviso | 1846 Bill forbidding slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. Never passed. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that it was obvious (manifest) that the US's fate (destiny) was to control the entire region from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Horace Greeley | Editor of the New York Tribune, coined phrase "Go West, Young Man" Proponent of Manifest Density |
