INQUIZITIVE; Chapter 10
Identify the statement that describes the American System
- proposed by president Madison the plane rested on three pillars: anew national bank, a tariff on imported manufactured good, and federal funding of the building of canal and road
Identify the statement that describes the spoils system
- the practice of a political party awarding post to its supporters
Identify the statements that correctly describe the ways in which Latin American rebellions for independence from Spain in the 1810s and 1820s were similar to the North American movement for independence from Great Britain in the 1770s and 1780s.
-Both the North American colonies and the Latin American colonies rebelled against their "mother countries" after periods of relative autonomy. -Latin American colonists resisted the high taxes from Spain the way American colonists had rejected taxation from Great Britain. -Both movements began as claims for greater local autonomy but evolved into full demands for independence.
Identify the statement that describes the relationship between property and voting rights in America
-By 1860 in all but one state, land ownership was not a requirement to vote
Identify the statements that describe the relationship between property and voting rights in America.
- By 1860, all but one state had ended property requirements for voting. - As early as 1829, landless men argued that property owners were not the only ones with the knowledge necessary for democratic participation. - Plantation-owning politicians in Virginia resisted demands to end the property-ownership qualification until the 1850s.
Identify the causes of the economic Panic of 1819.
- Demand for western lands plummeted, bankrupting many speculators. - European demand for American farm goods returned to pre-War of 1812 levels. - The Bank of the United States began to collect on loans, but farmers and businessmen could not repay them.
How was Jackson able to enlarge the powers of the presidency?
- He enhanced the power of the presidential office even while he was reducing the power of the government as a kind of administrative structure. - As a political leader, Jackson developed the idea that the president was the sole representative of the people—not Congress.
What does this image reveal about the important issues John Quincy Adams supported during his campaign?
- It shows that Adams promoted an economy that balanced industry, commerce, and agriculture. - It shows the promotion of domestic goods over foreign imports in order to strengthen the young country's economy.
Based on your understanding of the Bank War, what does this political cartoon reveal about the conflict?
- Jackson and his Democratic allies viewed bankers as evil. - Jackson hated bankers for being "non-producers" and for using their resources to influence political outcomes.
Identify each of the statements that are true about Native Americans during the presidency of Andrew Jackson.
- The Creek and Cherokee nations followed legal protocols in order to try to retain their land. - The Indian Removal Act of 1830 rejected the Jeffersonian idea that "civilized" Indians could be assimilated into the American population.
Identify the statements that correctly describe the tariff of 1816 and its context.
- The law protected American-made goods by taxing similar goods from abroad. - The law admitted imported goods that could not be produced in the United States tax-free.
What facts about the presidential election of 1824 are reflected in the map below?
- The results reflected continued tensions between different geographic regions. - The outcome laid the groundwork for a new system of political parties.
Identify the initiatives that led to the Democrats' success at the national level.
- lowered the tariff - reduced government expenditures
What does this broadside reveal about the important issues John Quincy Adams supported during his campaign?
-It shows the promotion of domestic goods over foreign imports in order to strengthen the young country's economy
Identify the statements that describe responses to the Panic of 1819.
-Kentucky established a state bank that flooded the state with paper money -Many states suspended the collection of debts
Identify the statements that describe the Latin American wars of independence.
-Latin American constitutions were more democratic than the United States Constitution -The Spanish empire in America eventually dissolved into seventeen different nations Identify the candidates - Many of the South American revolutions started because of unfair political and economic treatment by European imperial powers.
based on your understanding of the Bank War, what does this political cartoon reveal about the conflict?
-Nicholas Biddle, the president of the Second Bank of the United States, is represented with the head of a demon and shown running from an all-powerful.
In McCulloch v. Maryland, Marshall declared the Second Bank of the United States a legitimate exercise of congressional authority. What was his argument to legitimize the bank?
-The bank was legitimate due to the Constitution's clause that allowed Congress to pass "necessary and proper" laws. -The bank was legitimate because the legislation in this case promoted "the general welfare."
Monroe's two terms were an era of one-party government. Identify the term used to describe his tenure
-The era of Good Feelings
Which of the following statements accurately describe the 1828 presidential election and its outcome?
-The results represented a sea change in American political life. -The campaign of 1828 was consumed with personal attacks and accusations made by supporters of both candidates.
John Quincy Adams announced in his first message to Congress in December 1825 that "the spirit of improvement is abroad in the land." Whom did he believe should be the patron of the "spirit of improvement"?
-the federal government
What problem are the Memorialists describing?
-they are describing the fact that there are still property qualifications debarring many men of Virginia from exercising the right to vote
The Dorr War was a political fight in Rhode Island over the property qualifications required to vote. Place the following descriptions of this event in chronological order.
01. upset with Rhode Island's voting requirements, a group of wage-earning men met at a "people's convention" 02. The people's convention wrote and ratified a new constitution for the state of Rhode Island 03. President John Tyler sent troops to the state 04. The Rhode Island legislature eliminated the property qualification for native born man
Identify the statements that describe the life and career of Andrew Jackson.
Jackson was suspicious of banks and paper money and feared that the market revolution was a source of moral decay.
Identify the statements that describe William Henry Harrison, the 1840 Whig candidate for president
Correct answers: -Harrison's running mate was John Tyler, former Democrat from Virginia -Harrison did not have an actual political platform -Harrison's key accomplishment, like Jackson's, was his military success against the British in the War of 1812
How was Jackson able to enlarge the powers of the presidency
Correct answers: -He enhanced the power of the presidential office even while he was reducing the power of the government as a kind of administrative structure -As a political leader Jackson developed the idea that the president was the sole representative of the people—not Congress
Identify the statements that describe responses to the Panic of 1819
Correct answers: -Kentucky established a state bank that flooded the state with paper money -Many states suspended the collection of debts
Identify the statements that describe the Latin American Wars of Independence.
Correct answers: -Latin American constitutions were more democratic than the United States Constitution -The Spanish empire in America eventually dissolved into seventeen different nations
Martin Van Buren, a senator from New York, organized the creation of the Democratic Party to get Andrew Jackson elected president in 1828. What justifications did Van Buren give for the creation of the Democratic Party?
Correct answers: -Rather than being dangerous and divisive, as the founding generation had believed, political parties were a necessary and indeed desirable element of political life -party competition provided a check on those in power and offered voters a real choice in elections
Identify the three main principles of the Monroe Doctrine
Correct answers: -The United States would oppose any further colonization efforts by the European powers in the Americas -The United States would abstain from involvement in the wars of Europe -The United States gave warning to the European powers not to interfere with the newly independent states of Latin America
How did the Democrats and the Whigs differ in the conception of freedom that they advocated?
Correct answers: -The Whigs had a positive view of freedom; they thought freedom could be enhanced and promoted by governmental action -The Democrats represented "negative freedom," or limited government interference, meaning the key to freedom was individual self-determination and individual action
What does this map reveal about the Missouri Compromise and slavery in the United States in 1820?
Correct answers: -The northeastern coast of the country, from Maine to New Jersey, was comprised entirely of free states and territories -Present-day North and South Dakota, which were part of the unorganized territory, were both closed to slavery
Identify the statements below that describe the Indian Removal
Correct answers: -the forced march of the Cherokee to Oklahoma became known as the "Trail of Tears" as it inevitably led to the deaths of an estimated 4,000 Indians -While southern tribes peacefully departed, Seminoles living in Florida resisted
Even though John Tyler was a Whig, Whig newspapers quickly started referring to him as "His Accidency" and "The Executive Ass." Why was Tyler so disliked by members of his own party
Correct asnwers: -Tyler vetoed the creation of a new national bank -Tyler vetoed a higher tariff
Identify the core values and beliefs, as well as interest groups, of the following political parties
Democrats -believed the government should adopt a hands-off approach to the economy and not award special favors to entrenched economic interests -rural farmers and many slaveholders Whigs -united behind the American System and believed that a protective tariff, a national bank, and aid to internal improvements could guide economic development -businessmen and farmers on the Great Lakes, rivers, and canals, and large plantation owners
Identify the core values and beliefs, as well as interest groups, of the following political parties.
Democrats -believed the government should adopt a hands-off approach to the economy and not award special favors to entrenched economic interests -rural farmers and many slaveholders Whigs -united behind the American System and believed that a protective tariff, a national bank, and aid to internal improvements could guide economic development -businessmen and farmers on the Great Lakes, rivers, and canals, and large plantation owners
Jackson's Democrats were firm believers in using the power of the government to legislate a unified moral vision on society, especially "temperance" laws that restricted alcohol use and production
False
The tariff of 1816 did not offer protection for goods produced in the United States, and as a result it significantly increased the United States' dependency on Great Britain for imported goods and services.
False
The ultimate goal of Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 was to integrate the Five Civilized Tribes into the American society.
False
Whigs believed that liberty and power were incompatible and that an activist government was to be avoided at all costs as a grave threat to liberty.
False
The painting below titled Stump Speaking (1850s) by George Caleb Bingham depicts a candidate in a county election addressing a group of voters. Place the descriptors below to the appropriate parts of the painting that illustrate aspects of political culture during the Age of Jackson.
Man in the Middle, in black: - In the spirit of democracy, voters were invited to ask questions and make suggestions. Man on the Left, standing to a sort of podium: - Politics had become a spectacle with popular orators hosting huge rallies, parades, and speeches. Man on the right, sitting in White clothing: - Voters of all classes engaged in the democratic process.
As a result of the Dorr War, property qualifications for voting were eliminated for native-born black and white men
True
As a result of the Dorr War, property qualifications for voting were eliminated for native-born black and white men.
True
Immediately upon assuming the office of the presidency, William Henry Harrison contracted pneumonia. He died a month later, and John Tyler succeeded him
True
Martin Van Buren was elected president in 1836. Under Van Buren, the hard-money, anti-bank wing of the Democratic Party came to power.
True
Identify the Supreme Court case that held that Indian nations are a distinct people with the right to maintain a separate political identity
Worcester v. Georgia
Identify the statements that describe President Andrew Jackson.
correct answer: -Jackson was accused by his critics of being a tyrant acting above the law and they used the title "King" as a term of derision -The "Whig Party" was the name given to the political party created in opposition to Jackson
Identify the initiatives that led to the Democrats' success at the national level
correct answers: - reduced government expenditures -lowered the tariff
Identify the candidates for the presidency in the election of 1824.
correct answers: -Andrew Jackson - Henry Clay
Identify the statements that describe John Quincy Adams's positions prior to becoming president.
correct answers: -United States ambassador to Prussia, Russia, the Netherlands, and Britain -senator from Massachusetts
As property qualifications were lifted as a barrier to participating in American democracy, by what new boundaries were the rights of citizens restricted?
correct answers: -sex -race
Match the term from the Bank War controversy to its correct definition
currency based only on gold and silver -hard money paper currency issued by banks -soft money state banks that were chosen by elected officials to receive federal funds -pet banks
Identify the contributions of the following people to the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
engineered the second Missouri Compromise Correct label: Senator Henry Clay proposed that the introduction of more slaves to Missouri be prohibited Correct label: Congressman James Tallmadge proposed a three-part compromise to end the Missouri crises Correct label: Senator Jesse Thomas
Identify the following key terms.
passed by Congress to enforce the federal tariff of 1832 -force act represented a conflict between the federal government and South Carolina -nullification crisis justified South Carolina's arguments for nullification by drawing on the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 -Exposition and Protest raised taxes on imported manufactured goods made of wool, as well as raw materials such as iron -tariff of abominations
What does it reveal about the presidential election of 1824?
performed strongest in the Northeastern states, including New York, Massachusetts, and Maine -John Quincy Adams won the largest portion of the popular vote and the electoral vote -Andrew Jackson won a larger portion of the popular vote than William H. Crawford, but received fewer electoral votes -Henry Clay
Identify the following individuals and key terms
represented a conflict between the federal government and South Carolina that eventually led to well-developed political philosophy -nullification crisis passed by Congress to enforce the federal tariff of 1832 -Force act raised taxes on imported manufactured goods made of wool, as well as raw materials such as iron -tariff of abominations justified South Carolina's arguments for nullification by drawing on the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 -Exposition and Protest
The portion of James Monroe's annual message of 1823 that became known as the Monroe Doctrine was written by his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, and outlined America's diplomatic declaration of independence.
true
Identify the contributions or opinions of the following individuals in the 1820s.
viewed the entire Missouri controversy as an attempt by Federalists to revive their party by setting northern and southern Republicans against each other Correct label: Thomas Jefferson thought that the Missouri controversy had revealed how the issue of slavery could eventually result in civil war Correct label: John Quincy Adams persuaded many northerners that the South had too much influence in Washington; the only non-Virginian among the first five presidents of the United States Correct label: John Adams
