Age of Jackson and Reform Quiz

John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed ____ to become ____.

Henry Clay, secretary of state

The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was

Samuel Slater

Writing about his observations of America and Americans as he traveled across the United States, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville was most struck by

The general equality of social and economic conditions among Americans.

Which of the following interest group(s) supported the exceptionally high rates of the Tariff of 1828?

Wool and textile manufacturers from New England.

Noah Webster's dictionary

helped to standardize the American language.

All of the following contributed to the appeal of the Second Great Awakening to women except

it encouraged women to enter into professions normally reserved for men in order to make these professional more ethical and morally upright.

As a result of the development of the cotton gin

slavery revived and expanded.

The presidential election of 1824

was the first one to see the election of a president who failed to win a majority of the electoral vote from the state electors.

Despite early resistance, the main reason free public education ultimately triumphed was

wealthy and politically powerful Americans feared that if the government failed to provide free public education, poor families and immigrants would utilize their free vote to elect candidates and political parties unfavored by these political and economic elites.

When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because they

were too poor to move west and buy land.