Exam 2 Study Guide
Hudson River School painters suggested sadness at the passing of wilderness and
Also celebrated the coming development of farms.
James Fenimore Cooper's theme in Leather Stocking Tales is that
American wilderness merely awaited transformation by pioneers
How did advocates of the Benevolent Empire attempt to perfect society?
By personal contact, testimony, and exhortation.
Following the battle Jacinto, Texans made Sam Houston their fist president and
Called for Texas to be annexed to the United States
Although Andrew Jackson received the most electoral votes in the general election, in the end John Quincy Adams was named president with the support of Henry Clay. How did Jackson's supporters characterize this outcome?
Corrupt Bargain
The Transcontinental Treaty of 1819
Defended the US as a nation that spanned the continent.
Sequoyah
Developed the Cherokee syllabary, or system of written language
What invention enabled an economic boom in the south and created a demand for new land in the West?
Eli Whitney's cotton gin
Under the Mexican plan for the development of Texas, the Mexican government agreed to place immigration in the hands of what group?
Empresarios
Most immigrants who followed missionaries to Oregon territory were
Farm families
The Liberty Party
Fielded its first candidate in 1840
How and Charles G Finney's teaching differ from traditional Calvinist beliefs?
Finney emphasized human agency.
Written in 1828," An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World," by David Walker called for
Free and slave blacks using violence if necessary to abolish slavery
Written in 1829, "An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World," by David Walker called for
Free and slave blacks using violence if necessary to abolish slavery.
When the poet William Cullen Bryant described the vacant Illinois prairie in the 1830s, he envisioned
Gardens and cultivated fields.
What did the Supreme Court rule in Worcester v. Georgia?
Georgia had erred because the federal government had jurisdiction in Native American affairs.
What was President Jackson's reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia (1832)?
He refused to enforce it.
Why did the presidency of John Tyler throw the Whig Party into chaos?
He reverted back to his Democratic roots.
Which of the following was not the about William Henry Harrison?
He was reelected following a very successful first term *FALSE*
Who did President John Quincy Adams appoint as secretary of state
Henry Clay
How did Andrew Jackson appeal to the growing majority of democratic Americans in the election of 1828?
His stance as an outsider and victim of eastern elites .
"His Accidency" was a reference to what about President John Tyler?
His succession to the presidency.
To exert authority over land occupied by the Cherokee nation, Georgia's legislature
Invalidated the Cherokee constitution and proclaimed the Indians subject to the authority of the state.
Who were the primary targets of the American nativist movement?
Irish Catholics
What agreement was reached in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
It confirmed the boundary between the United States and Great Britain from Maine to the Rocky Mountains.
How did the Land Act of 1820 change regulations regarding western settlement?
It lowered the price per acre but ended credit purchases.
What was a major consequence of each new stage of American expansion
It reignited the controversy over slavery.
What policy did the new Republic of Texas follow with regard to its status among nations?
It wanted annexation to the United States as soon as possible.
Even as suffrage was extended to all white males,
It was withdrawn from free African Americans, even where permitted previously.
What was President Jackson's response to the bill that extended the charter of the Second Bank of the US?
Jackson vetoed the bill.
The French observer Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans
Loved to organize.
What term suggests the belief of white Americans that by right they should occupy the North American continent?
Manifest Destiny
Who was the first missionary to reach Oregon?
Methodist Jason Lee.
A group of leaders who accepted the concept that a strong national government was a protection against localism and fragmentation were known as
National Republicans
Landscape paintings by Hudson River School artists rarely contained human figures except
Native Americans
What changes occurred in urban development by the 1830's?
Neighborhoods stratified by class
What prediction did Governor DeWitt Clinton make regarding the Erie Canal
New York City would become the emporium of the world.
What nickname reflected the character and reputation of Andrew Jackson?
Old Hickory
The Missouri Compromise was a devastating defeat for
Opponents of slavery
Why did slave codes assign enslaved people's status as personal property rather than real property?
Personal property management was more flexible.
What and Seth Luther mean by the term "middle class"?
Persons whose jobs require mental rather than physical labor
The Trail of Tears refers to
Removal of the Cherokee from the East to Indian Territory.
The completion of the last of the eastern Native American "removals" marked the beginning of a federal policy toward
Reservations
Cathrine Sedgwick's novel The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man
Romanticized urban poverty and suggested that "true wealth" lay within the reach of everyone.
What was the most prevalent trend in internal migration in America in the 1830's and 1840's?
Rural people moving to cities
When Cherokee leaders appealed to President Jackson for help, he
Said it was his duty to support the state in the exercise of its rights.
Where did women gather in 1848 to pass their Declaration of Sentiments, a kind of declaration of independence from male domination?
Seneca Falls, New York
Women were particularly drawn to__________ because of a belief in the spiritual equally of women and men .
Snakerism
Who developed the first Anglo colony in Mexican Texas?
Stephen F. Austin
What was the largest and longest tenured reform proposal aimed at improving individuals in society
Temperance Movement
As president, Andrew Jackson believed
That he spoke for the nation on all matters.
How did John Ross experience the limits of American democracy?
The Cherokee were forcibly removed from their land even after favorable Supreme Court rulings .
Why did Congress delay outlawing the international slave trade within the jurisdiction of the United States until 1808?
The Constitution forbade such a law until 20 years after its ratification.
What provides evidence that sugar plantations required the greatest restocking of enslaved people?
The South's largest slave market was in New Orleans
What was proclaimed in the Monroe Doctrine?
The Western Hemisphere was in the sphere of influence of the United States.
What evidence was there that participants were aware of the sordidness of activities occurring in slave markets?
The fact that no records were kept so there would be no evidence of the activity.
Labor organizer Seth Luther characterized society as a struggle between
The producers and the rich.
James Madison changed his mind about what when he became president
The usefulness of a national bank.
What most distinguished Irish immigrants from general American society?
Their Catholic religion.
Why did separatist communities withdraw from daily contact with the outside world?
To create a more perfect society here on earth.
What was the primary purpose of the American Bible Society
To distribute Bibles in cities and frontier settlements.
What was the primary purpose of the American Bible Society?
To distribute Bibles in cities and frontier settlements.
Under President Monroe and the National Republicans the only items on their legislative agenda that did not fare well was
Transportation subsides
What agreement ended the war between the United States and Mexico in 1848?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Advanced education at the college level in the antebellum period
Was available only for males.
What turned at to be an issue in the presidential campaign in 1828?
Wether Rachel Robards had been legally divorced when she and Jackson married.
What stood at the center of the economy for all Plains Indians?
bison
How were children of the wealthy usually educated prior to the Civil War?
by private tutors
A series of sermons by the Reverend Lyman Beecher in 1825
changed the debate on temperance from a health issue to a spiritual issue
In the new culture of self-improvement that characterized the 1830s, what did reformers believe was the key to individual success?
hard work, industriousness, and frugality
To what does the practice of "squatting" refer?
occupying public land without purchasing it
At the founding of the nation, suffrage was restricted by gender, race, and
property ownership
In 1819, Missouri petitioned Congress to be admitted as a _____ state.
slave
Slave rice cultivators commonly worked by the ________, which involved a specific assignment for a day's work.
task system
What group provided the "backbone" of the Benevolent Empire?
women volunteers
What brought Britain and the United States to the brink of war in 1837?
A Canadian rebellion.
What kind of economy developed rapidly in Texas in the 1820's?
A cotton economy dependent on slavery.
Ending participation in the international slave trade by the United States had what effect?
A flourishing domestic slave trade arose.
According to those who envisioned total development of the continent in the nineteenth century, America would eventually become what?
A highway for transporting goods and culture.
According to John C Calhoun, how could South Carolina's be exempted from paying the tariff?
A state legislature could nullify a federal law it considered unconstitutional
