USH (2:3)● Sectionalism

● Sections of the country at odds with each other● The Missouri Compromise

● “Slave “State” or “Free State”?● The answer: admit Maine as a “Free State” and

admit Missouri as a “Slave State”– Temporarily settled the dispute over the westward

expansion of slavery

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● The 6th President: John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

● More White Males able to vote– Able voters in 1824: 335,000– Able voters in 1828: 1,130,000

(2:3)● The 7th President: Andrew Jackson (1829-

1837)● Spoils System

– Giving people government jobs if they are loyal to your party

● Democracy “For the People”– Changed how we pick presidential nominees

(2:3)● The Nullification Crisis

● South Carolina rebels against high tariffs (taxes)● Threaten to “secede” (leave the Union)● Would not recognize the new tariff law as a

legitimate law (“nullify” the law)

(2:3)● Native American Removal

● Indian Removal Act (1830)– Re-settled Native Americans west of the Mississippi River

● Trail of Tears (under Pres. Van Buren)– Death and disease during removal

(2:3)● The 8th President: Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

● Economic Crisis– Panic of 1837– Left Van Buren unpopular and vulnerable in next

election● New Party: The Whigs

(2:3)● The 9th President: William Henry Harrison

(1841)● Died from pneumonia one month into office

● The 10th President: John Tyler (1841-1845)● Webster-Ashburton Treaty

– Established permanent boundary between Canada and U.S.

(2:3)● The Second Great Awakening

● Religious revival among Protestants● Social Reform

● Get rid of society's ills– Women more involved than men

● “Temperance”: moderation in alcohol consumption

(2:3)● The Women's Movement

● Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony

● Seneca Falls Convention– Beginning of the Women's Rights Movement– Seneca Falls Declaration

● Women and men are equal● Women should have the right to vote

(2:3)● The Abolitionist Movement

● The abolition (end) of slavery● William Lloyd Garrison

– Called for “emancipation” (freeing) of slaves– Newspaper editor– Created anti-slavery societies (groups)

(2:3)● African -American Abolitionists

● Frederick Douglass● Sojourner Truth