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Jacksonian and Antebellum Vocabulary
 

Jacksonian Era Vocabulary



Jackson and Marshall

Jackson and the Indians

John Marshall and the Cherokee Nation

The Maysville Road Veto

Western farming

subsistence farming

commercial farming

Specie Circular

cotton gin

squatters

National Republicans

Era of the Common Man

manhood suffrage

spoils system

Election of 1824

corrupt bargain

American System of Clay

John C. Calhoun

Tariff of 1828 - “Tariff of Abominations”

Old Hickory

Election of 1828

Roger B. Taney

Kitchen Cabinet

laissez faire

Maysville Road Veto

Thomas Hart Benton

preemption

public domain

Indian removal

Black Hawk War

peculiar institution

Denmark Vesey

South Carolina Exposition and Protest

interposition

nullification

secession

Hayne-Webster debate

Peggy Eaton affair

Tariff of 1832

force bill

compromise tariff

Nicholas Biddle

The "Monster"

The Bank War

Anti-Masonic Party

Election of 1832

pet banks

Whigs

Election of 1836

Specie circular

hard money - soft money

free banking

Panic of 1837

Locofoco

Independent Treasury Act of 1840

Election of 1840

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler of Virginia

Log Cabin Campaign

Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge - 1837

Roger B. Taney

Whig Party

preemption

Tariff of 1842

Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842

Horace Greeley

Perfectionist Program

Deism

Unitarianism

William Ellery Channing

Transcendentalists

Romanticists

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoreau - “Essay on Civil Disobedience”

Walden Pond

Second Great Awakening

Joseph Smith

Charles G. Finney

The Reform Movement

Dorothea Dix

temperance

humanitarians

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”

Horace Mann

Communitarianism

Robert Owen

Oneida Community

Brook Farm

Native American (Indian)

The Cherokee Nation


Indian Removal Act 1830


Antebellum civil rights (North)


Antebellum economic demography


alcoholism


professionalism (attitude/licensing)


"separate spheres"


horizontal allegiances


Antebellum birthrate


Democracy in America/
Alexis de Tocqueville


Washington
Irving             


James Fennimore Cooper   


Hudson River
School