5. Age of Jackson & Social Reform

7th President of the US. He was considered the “Hero of the Common Man.”

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• John Quincy Adams

The new political system that allowed men who didn’t own property to vote & allowed more common men to participate in politics:

• Watergate Era

• Jacksonian Democracy

• Era of Good Feelings

• Common Man Suffrage

A law supported by Jackson that forced native Americans to give up their homelands and move west of the Mississippi River.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The Middle Passage

• Indian Removal Act

• The Great Migration

Jackson's Vice President, John C. Calhoun encouraged South Carolina to threaten to nullify a tariff. Jackson responded by threatening force against the state. It was finally settled with a compromise.

• Nullification Crisis

• The Great Compromise

• The Three Fifths Compromise

• The Southern Dilemma

He invented the cotton gin and the system of interchangeable parts.

• John C. Calhoun

• Frederick Douglass

• Nat Turner

• Eli Whitney

A machine that removes seeds from cotton. It increased cotton production and led to the demand for more slavery.

• The steamboat

• The textile loom

• The telegraph

• The cotton gin

The Senator who established the American System:

• Andrew Jackson

• Henry Clay

• John Quincy Adams

• Davy Crockett

A way to connect the country together and help increase economic growth. It was built on three parts: tariffs, transportation improvements, and a national bank.

• The American System

• The Great Compromise

• The Kansas Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

A religious movement that swept across the country and led to more efforts to reform society.

• The Second Great Awakening

• The Salem Witch Trials

• The Puritan movement

• The Quakers of Pennsylvania

The reform movement that wanted to limit alcohol consumption in the US.

• Abolition

• Temperance

• Women's Suffrage

• Free public school