Ch 10 Give Me Liberty
The Constitution was amended to require states to allow women to vote in
1920
Approximately how much of the adult white male population in the United States could vote by 1840?
90%
The author of Democracy in America was
Alexis de Tocqueville, from France.
Which was NOT an attribute of Alexis de Tocqueville's vision of democracy?
All Americans over age twenty-one ought to, Tocqueville wrote, have the right to vote.
Andrew Jackson was the standard-bearer for which political party?
Democrats
A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that
European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.
All of the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen made property ownership a requirement of voting, at least for a time.
F
Andrew Jackson and his supporters publicly argued that the presidential election of 1824 had been determined in his favor by a "corrupt bargain" between some of the participants.
F
Andrew Jackson appealed to the changing voting pool because he represented those that came from generations of wealth and supported a strong federal government-controlled nation.
F
As working-class whites gained equal rights in the political arena, they grew increasingly critical of racial inequality.
F
Both John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson believed in states' rights to nullify federal law.
F
Despite his reputation for stubbornness, President Jackson proved timid and conciliatory during the nullification crisis and the Bank War.
F
During James Madison's presidential terms, two-party political competition completely disappeared.
F
Free blacks gained the right to vote in every state in the Union after 1800.
F
In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote.
F
President Andrew Jackson's inauguration was a quiet affair in which a small group of close-knit friends of the new president met at the White House for a quiet, solemn, elite dinner.
F
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was renounced by President Jackson.
F
The charter for the Bank of the United States was renewed in 1811.
F
The election of 1824 resulted in Andrew Jackson being elected president that year.
F
While Whigs considered individual morality a private matter, not a public concern, Democrats insisted that liberty and power reinforced each other.
F
cotton gin was a drink invented by eli whitney
F
Which of the following was NOT a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?
Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.
Which was not part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
It permanently settled the question of the expansion of slavery: Missouri was admitted without having to agree to end slavery. Slavery was prohibited in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of 36°30'. Maine, a free state (without slavery), was admitted into the Union.
Which of the following is not true regarding the Bank War?
Jackson finally relented to Biddle's continued pressure and signed the bill to extend the bank for another twenty years :The banks tended to overissue paper money, which deteriorated the value compared to the real income of wage earners. The bank symbolized the hopes and fears inspired by the market revolution, yet many Americans distrusted bankers. Many people had nicknamed the Bank of the United States the "Monster Bank."
The man responsible for negotiating a treaty for the United States to acquire Florida from Spain, aid in an agreement with Great Britain to fix the Canadian-American border at the 49th parallel, and wrote a majority of the Monroe Doctrine is
John Quincy Adams.
Which is not an element of Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
Marshall found that contracts between states and private citizens could not be abridged.:He interpreted the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution to mean that the Bank of the United States was a legitimate exercise of congressional authority. "The power to tax involves the power to destroy," and states did not have authority to destroy an agency created by the federal government. His decision directly contradicted the "strict construction" view of the Constitution that held that Congress was restricted to the specific powers granted in that document.
The portion of President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress that asserted that the United States would oppose further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas, that the United States would stay out of European wars, and that European powers were not to interfere with the newly independent Latin American states is called the
Monroe Doctrine
What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?
Old Hickory
Which of the following was NOT a significant development during the decade following Jackson's presidency?
President Van Buren shifted vast amounts of federal funds to state banks.
By 1825, Spain's once vast American empire had been reduced to Cuba and
Puerto Rico
According to Martin Van Buren, political parties could serve to check the power of office-holders, counteract sectional divisions, and provide voters with genuine alternatives
T
Although denied the ballot, women found a voice in the public sphere during the 1820s and 1830s.
T
Andrew Jackson believed slanderous comments during his election bid contributed to his wife's early death shortly after the election.
T
As a boy, Andrew Jackson had almost been killed when, during the War for Independence, a British officer struck him with his sword after the boy refused to polish the soldier's boots.
T
Between Democrats and Whigs, the Democrats found greater support among subsistence farmers, aspiring entrepreneurs, and urban workers; the Whigs found greater support among wealthy landowners and well-connected businessmen.
T
During the market revolution, the emergence of organized political parties spurred newspaper publication.
T
John Tyler's presidency could best be summed up as devoid of accomplishment.
T
Martin Van Buren's presidency, to a large degree, was occupied in dealing with issues arising from the Panic of 1837.
T
Political cartoons criticizing Andrew Jackson often depicted him as a king.
T
President Jackson's critics called him "King Andrew."
T
The 1828 "tariff of abominations" led to the nullification crisis.
T
The 1836 Specie Circular declared that the federal government would accept only specie (gold and silver) in payment for public land.
T
The Dorr War revolved around the issue of whether propertyless white men should have the right to vote.
T
The Indian Sequoia developed an alphabet from the Cherokee language.
T
The Panic of 1819 left many Americans uneasy about the market revolution.
T
The Second Bank of the United States held all the funds of the federal government and accumulated a large amount of paper money issued by local banks.
T
The election of 1824 injured Henry Clay's political career.
T
The leading theorist of nullification and states' rights by 1831 was the Vice President of the United States.
T
The proper chronological order for presidents from 1817 forward is: Monroe, J.Q. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison.
T
White Americans enjoyed a much less stratified system of society than did Europeans.
T
Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and a ten-hour workday.
T
This person refused to sign the Pennsylvania constitutional conversion document because it had a provision limiting suffrage to only whites and later became a leader in the drive for equal rights for African-Americans after the Civil War.
Thaddeus Stevens
Which of the following was not a key difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?
The Democrats held a stronghold on upstate New York; the Whigs held more isolated rural communities : The Whigs favored government actions to promote economic development; the Democrats did not. The Democrats voiced alarm over the gulf between the wealthy and the "producing classes"; the Whigs were more accepting of class hierarchy.The Whigs favored public measures to regulate personal morality; the Democrats did not.
Which of the following was NOT a key difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?
The Democrats were united in opposition to paper money; the Whigs were united in support of it.
Which was not an element in the 1841 Dorr War?
The war's bloodshed led to the deaths of more than 246 people, and to Dorr's execution :Thomas Dorr, a wealthy lawyer, was inaugurated as governor of the state of Rhode Island under the constitution drawn by the People's Convention. Supporters of democratic reform organized a People's Convention, which drafted a new constitution for the state of Rhode Island.It occurred in Rhode Island and was a struggle for universal manhood suffrage in the state.
Which was NOT an element in the 1841 Dorr War?
The war's bloodshed led to the deaths of more than 246 people, and to Dorr's execution.
What political party was organized to oppose President Jackson?
Whigs
Which of the following was not a significant trend in American thought during the market revolution?
a belief that one's spiritual salvation was purely a matter of chance
A significant element of the American System was
a national bank. tariffs on imported manufactured goods. federally sponsored internal improvements.
Pet banks were created when
both houses of Congress approved the president's appointment for a new pet bank, which handled more gold and silver than paper money.
The Tariff of 1816 protected goods produced in the United States, especially
cheap cotton textile
Which of the following did Andrew Jackson believe was associated with the outcome of the election of 1824?
corrupt bargain
Which was NOT part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
he children of slaves already in Missouri were to be freed at age twenty-five.
Which of the following was a factor in the split between Andrew Jackson and John Calhoun?
nullification crisis, peggy eaton situation
By 1860, most states had eliminated ____________ from their voting requirements.
property requirements
In the mid 1800s, this had replaced class as the boundary between those American men who were entitled to enjoy political freedom and those who were not.
race
Which of the following questions was NOT a key focus of political controversy during the Jackson years?
should women have right to vote?
Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?
telephones
President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as
the American System
McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that
the Bank of the United States was constitutionally legal.
The Panic of 1819 was caused by
the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.
Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called
the spoils system.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to
the westward expansion of slavery.
The Era of Good Feelings was so-called because
they were years of one-party government.
