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43 Cards in this Set
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The Whig Part was made up of former Federalists and former Republicans who...
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Adcovated national support for economic development
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Which of the following was not one of the forces of division within the Republican party in the early 1820s?
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Democrats = state's rights
Whigs = national support for economic development |
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What are the democratization of American politics in the Age of Jackson? (4)
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-Voters do not have to have property
-Written ballots -Appointed offices became elective -Electoral college from legislature to voters |
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What happened to the American political system during the antebellum period?
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-Split in to two parties: Democrat & Nat. Republicans
-Suffrage Politics |
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Reformers of the antebellum period ___________.
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Martin Van Buren’s political machine in New York was known as __________.
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Albany Regency
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What did the presidential election of 1828 demonstrate?
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Mudslinging and a new party system (Adams = Republican, Jackson = Democrat)
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Removing officeholders of the rival political party and replacing them with members of your own party is called the ____________.
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Spoil System
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Why did President Jackson veto the Maysville Road Bill?
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He believed the Constituion did not allow Congress to appropriate money for sectional things, only national.
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Which section of the country tended to oppose tariffs?
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The South
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The theory that the Union is a compact among the states and that a state has the right to override a federal law is known as _________.
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Nullification
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The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was drawn up in opposition to the __________.
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1828 tariff and States had nullification rights
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The Force Bill authorized President Jackson to _____________.
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Use arms in S. Carolina to collect custom duties
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The tariff controversy of the early 1830s showed that _____________.
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Big difference between North and Suuth - Sectional conflicts, economic differences
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What were the 4 reasons why Andrew Jackson vetoed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States?
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-Monopoly that drained the West
-Immune from State taxation -Power in hands of few -Poor poorer, potent more powerful |
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The term “pet banks” was applied to ___________.
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State banks that held federal revenue, favored Democrats
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What did President Jackson do in his “war” on the Bank of the United States?
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-Privitization
Putting money from the U.S. Bank into state banks |
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The difference between “hard money” and “soft money” is ____________.
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Soft money = paper
Hard money = specie |
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Which party was Jackson a part of and where was he from?
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Democratic from Tennesse
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Who was the main opposition to Andrew Jackson during his second term in office?
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The Whigs
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What are the groups that would not have supported the Whig party during the Jacksonian era?
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-Slave-holders
-Anti-reformers (against big government) -Those for liquor -Irish |
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What contributed to the depression of 1837?
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-Jacksons state banks
-Britain stopped flow of specie |
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In the late 1830s and early 1840s, what group believed that the end of the world was imminent?
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Millers
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Which political party had become the anti-bank, hard-money party by 1840?
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Democrats
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What was the purpose of the Independent Treasury advocated by President Van Buren?
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Hold government revenues and keep them away from corporations
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Why did Vice President Martin Van Buren lose the presidential election of 1840? (3)
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-Economic Depression
-Not a war hero -Campaign style was quiet |
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What was the main cause of the great increase in the popular vote between the 1836 and 1840 presidential elections?
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Sharp contrast between the two parties with distinct platforms (two party system)
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The period of revivalism that swept the nation in the early years of the nineteenth century is known as the _________.
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Second Great Awakening
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Which sect believed that Jesus was not divine but merely an exemplary human being?
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The Idiots, AKA Anti-Christs...
Unitarians |
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**Why can Mormonism be described as “pushing against the currents of American religion and society”? (3)
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-Polygamy
-Joseph Smith a Prophet -Undermined the Bible, and therefore the Constitution |
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What is one of the noteworthy tenets of the Shakers?
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Known for fine wood-making and farm tools
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What were the main reform movements of the Age of Jackson? (6)
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-abolition of slavery
-women's rights -temperance -better treatment of criminals and insane -public education -utopian societies |
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Why did temperance reformers make one of their main targets the moderate drinkers among the laboring classes?
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Factories demanded a more sober work-place
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The goals of the school reform movement in the Age of Jackson included __________. (5)
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-State, not parent, funded
-Compelling attendance -Longer time in school -Standardized textbooks -Classifying students by age and attainment |
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**Who was the most famous and controversial white abolitionist?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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What did most white abolitionists want?
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-Legal, but not civil or social, racial equality
-Liked light-skinned blacks -Hesitant to allow blacks into abolitionist groups |
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The “gag rule” was repealed in 1845 largely because of the efforts of ___________.
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John Quincy Adams
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The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments called for ___________.
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Womens right to vote
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What was one of the major reasons for the changing attitude toward poverty, crime, and insanity in the early nineteenth century?
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Failure of parental discipline, NOT the will of God or human nature
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All of the following were founded as utopian communities except __________.
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-Owen "New Harmony"
-Brook Farm -Oneida community |
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Most founders of utopian communities believed that _________.
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-Human nature can be perfected by environment
-Alternatives to competitive economic |
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What conclusions can you draw from a comparison of Oneida with other utopian communities of the antebellum era?
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-Seen as radical
-Had financial success -Longer lasting than other groups |
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What were the features of the Oneida community?
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-Sex among everyone
-John Humphrey Noyes -Noyes sets up partners -Financial success -Long-lasting |
