apush chapter 10
Which occurred during the election of 1828?
One campaign slogan declared, "Adams can fight, but Jackson can write."
Jackson's assertion in his veto message was that the Second Bank of the United States was
an institution that favored a privileged minority of the population.
The Dorr War:
divided Rhode Islanders over the issue of expanding voting rights for white men.
By 1860, free black men could vote on the same basis as whites only in:
five New England states.
The Force Act of 1833:
gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs.
"Hard money" in the 1830s referred to:
gold and silver, also called "specie."
In the 1830s, how should Andrew Jackson's ideas on the Second Bank of the United States be characterized?
The Bank did not permit the issuance of enough paper money to meet national demand.
The most significant long-term effect of Jackson's veto was
the federal government's inability to monitor monetary policy without a central bank.
By 1840, approximately ________ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote.
90
In the document "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond," what were the freeholders claiming?
A majority of white males were not allowed to vote.
What idea did John Quincy Adams promote that was not accepted in his presidency and is still rejected in today's United States:
A publicly funded astronomical observatory.
The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville's Tocqueville on Democracy was that:
American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.
In the presidential election of 1824, who received the most votes but failed to win a majority of either the popular or electoral votes (requiring the House of Representatives to select a president)?
Andrew Jackson.
In what way was the 1840 Whig campaign for president similar to recent presidential campaigns?
Both had an extremely high percentage of voters (80 percent) turning out to cast ballots.
How are Andrew Jackson and George Washington most similar?
Both were popular army generals, which helped them get elected to the presidency.
Who argued in a famous debate with South Carolina's Robert Hayne that the people, not the states, created the Constitution?
Daniel Webster.
How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?
He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public.
How would one describe John Quincy Adams?
He opposed spending national government funds on economic development.
What was President Martin Van Buren's new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal government's relationship to banking?
He proposed that federal funds be controlled by government officials rather than by bankers.
Which of the following statements about Martin Van Buren is true?
He wanted to see competition between political parties.
In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:
Indians were wards of the federal government.
What would have been an accurate assessment of the Monroe Doctrine at the time?
It was more talk than action, as the United States was weak militarily.
Which of the following assessments of Jackson's opposition to the Bank of the United States is true?
Jackson was motivated by a Jeffersonian philosophy but acted in a Hamiltonian way
What triggered the Panic of 1837?
Jackson's war on the national bank.
Which president's vision for America most resembled Alexander Hamilton's plans?
James Monroe.
Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?
John C. Calhoun.
Briefly explain ONE reason for the compromise illustrated by the map.
Maine, which prohibited slavery, would be admitted to the union to maintain the sectional balanced between free and slave states.
Why was a second Missouri Compromise necessary?
Missouri's state constitution barred free blacks from entering the state.
What was a general belief of the Democrats in the 1830s?
New corporate enterprises were suspicious.
Who was the president of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?
Nicholas Biddle.
Whigs wanted the government involved in the following activity:
Regulating corporations.
Who was the last tribe to put up resistance on the battlefield in the Old Northwest?
Sauk.
Which Indian nation fought a war with the U.S. army from 1835 to 1842 to resist removal to the West?
Seminole.
Which state referred to the Tariff of 1828 as an "abomination"?
South Carolina.
What was the biggest change in American society during the Age of Jackson?
Sovereignty for white males was more fully realized.
Briefly explain how ANOTHER event between 1820 and 1844 illustrates the breakdown of the compromise depicted in the map.
The Missouri compromise aroused feelings of display and led to the discussion and led to the dissolution of Union.
What was the role of the Supreme Court in the protection of Native American lands?
The Supreme Court prevented Native Americans from losing access to land in Georgia.
In regard to foreign policy, what did John Quincy Adams envision for the United States?
The United States would eventually control all of North America.
What did the citizens appeal to in the "Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disfranchisement"?
The conscience of white males.
What significant issue did the Missouri Compromise aim to resolve?
The extension of slavery.
Which statement is true in regard to democracy in the Age of Jackson?
The justification for the disfranchisement of women was similar to that used against blacks.
Briefly explain how ONE event between 1820 and 1844 illustrates the breakdown of the compromise depicted in the map.
The missouri compromise raised controversy in the westward expansion of slavery.
During Andrew Jackson's presidency, what occurred financially?
The national government debt was eliminated.
Jackson adhered to what philosophy during the nullification crisis?
The national government was supreme.
What innovation led to mass production of newspapers and pamphlets in the 1820s and 1830s?
The use of steam power for presses.
Which statement is a correct assessment about the Whigs?
They argued that the role of government was to promote the welfare of its people.
Whose 1840 presidential campaign portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin and liked to drink hard cider?
William Henry Harrison.
Andrew Jackson's inauguration was:
a large, rowdy event.
The Second Bank of the United States was created:
by Congress in 1816, with the support of President Madison.
In response to the demand for internal improvements, President James Madison:
called for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to build roads and canals.
The Panic of 1837:
can only be blamed on Andrew Jackson's veto of the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States.
The question of the constitutionality of the Second Bank of the United States was
considered by Jackson to be an executive branch matter.
In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting:
continued in Virginia because large slaveholders dominated the state's politics.
In the wake of the War of 1812, younger Republicans like Henry Clay and John Calhoun:
continued to support agrarianism but believed that the nation's economic independence required a manufacturing sector.
The Monroe Doctrine:
declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization.
Analysis of the key events of the "Era of Good Feelings" showed that:
he Monroe Doctrine created harmony between Europe and the Western Hemisphere
The controversy over Peggy Eaton:
helped to enhance Martin Van Buren's influence during the Jackson administration.
The nullification crisis:
involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.
Many of the members of Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet, as his group of close advisers was known, were:
newspaper editors.
By the time of Jackson's presidency, politics:
often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.
The independence movements in Latin America between 1810 and 1822:
paralleled in some ways the independence movement that created the United States.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money:
promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver
The Panic of 1819:
prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors but hurt creditors.
Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:
revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union
Henry Clay was charged with orchestrating a "corrupt bargain" during the 1824 election so that he could become:
secretary of state.
The U.S. Supreme Court's 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:
supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.
A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:
that both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage.
In its decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional.
In the presidential election of 1840:
the Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by Democrats.
Women writers benefited from:
the growth of the reading public, part of the democratization of American life.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:
the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:
the spoils system.
The term "Era of Good Feelings" refers to the period of American history when:
there seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration.
As president, John Tyler:
vetoed a bill to create a new national bank, thus angering Whigs.
By the 1830s, the term "citizen" in America had become synonymous with the right to:
vote
The nullification crisis ended:
with a compromise tariff.