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43 Cards in this Set
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Herman Melville |
Underappreciated during his lifetime, his tale of a sea captain's quest for a great white whale, "Moby-Dick" (1851) ranks as a classic of American literature. |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
Short-story writer and poet whose Gothic horror tales explored humanity's darker side. |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The most popular American poet of the mid-1800s, his work helped shape the national character with subjects such as Paul Revere, Hiawatha and Miles Standish. |
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Walt Whitman |
This essayist and poet was one of most innovative of antebellum period, exploring sexuality and abandoning traditional forms of free verse. |
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William Sidney Mount |
Artist of the Hudson Valley School whose paintings portrayed everyday life, exemplifying the egalitarian sentiment of the Jacksonian period. |
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Martin Van Buren |
New Yorker who built one of the first statewide political machines, he served one term as the 8th president. |
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John C. Calhoun |
One of the "great Triumvirate" of three pre-Civil War legislators, the South Carolinian championed states' rights and nullification of Jackson's Tariff of Abominations, leaving the vice presidency for the US Senate. |
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Peggy O'Neale Eaton |
As wife of the secretary of war, gossip about her moral character led to a mass resignation among Andrew Jackson's cabinet. |
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Nicholas Biddle |
As president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1823 to 1836, he triggered a "bank war" with President Jackson by seeking to have the bank's charter renewed four years early. |
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Roger B. Taney |
Helped President Jackson kill the Second Bank of the United States by redirecting federal funds away from the bank and subsequently was rejected as secretary of the treasury by the Senate. He became chief justice of the Supreme Court and in 1857 handed down the controversial "Dred Scott" ruling. |
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Daniel Webster |
One of the "Great Triumvirate" of three pre-Civil War legislators, the New Englander was leading figure in the Whig party, twice serving as secretary of state and spending more than 25 years in Congress. |
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William Harry Harrison |
A hero for his military victory over Tecumseh at Tippecanoe (1811), he became the 9th president - and the first Whig elected - but died from illness after just one month. |
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Alexis de Tocqueville |
A French visitor to America in 1831-2, he recorded his insightful observations in the influential two-volume "Democracy in America." |
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Tariff of Abominations |
An 1828 protective tariff, or tax on imports, that angered southern free traders. |
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Trail of Tears |
In the winter of 1838-39, the Cherokee were forced to evacuate their lands in Georgia and travel under military guard to present-day Oklahoma. Exposure and disease killed roughly one-quarter of the 16,000 forced migrants en route. |
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Nullification |
The supposed right of any state to declare a federal law inoperative within its boundaries. In 1832, South Carolina nullified the federal tariff. |
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Bank War |
Between 1832-36, Andrew Jackson used his presidential power to fight and ultimately destroy the second Bank of the United States. |
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Panic of 1837 |
A financial depression that lasted until the 1840s. |
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Second party system |
Historians' term for the national two-party rivalry between Democrats and Whigs. The second party system began in the 1830s and ended in the 1850s with the demise of the Whigs and the rise of the Republican Party. |
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Andrew Jackson |
(Blank) came to symbolize the triumph of democracy in the 1820s-40s. |
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Grew from a coalition of Jackson's opponents |
The Whig party ...? |
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The Whigs |
Belief in the national bank, high tariffs, and federally financed internal improvements best describes the policies of which party in the 1830s? |
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Not only were women and African and Native Americans excluded, but even the idea that all white men began life with equal opportunities was false. |
In what ways was American democracy an illusion in the 1820s-40s? |
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Changes in the method of nominating and electing the president developed. |
Why did the two-party system of politics develop in the 1820s-40s? |
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Politicians campaigned at the state and local levels, using parades, barbecues and eventually rumors and mudslinging. |
How did campaigning methods change in the election campaign of 1828? |
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The thought it threatened the institution of slavery. |
Why did the South Carolinians protest the tariff of 1828? |
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He was a Southerner and slaveholder. |
Why were most Southerners unconcerned about Jackson's fight with South Carolina? |
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The Democratic Party was codified to establish Jackson's presidency, whereas the Whig party was founded to counter Jackson's attack on the Bank. |
How did the codifying of the Democratic Party differ from that of the Whig Party? |
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He hadn't spoken about the Bank War in his campaigns, but took his victory as a mandate that the nation wanted him to kill the national bank. |
Why was Jackson's view of the 1832 elections results suspect? |
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In 1840, the two-party system dominated political, social, and economic life; during Jefferson's time, political parties had little impact on people's lives. |
How did the two-party political system of 1840 differ from the previous system? |
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Accurately reflected the rise of the democratic spirit. |
American culture in the Jacksonian period ...? |
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Like Jackson, today's politicians believe it is a legitimate application of democracy. |
How does Jackson's interpretation of the "spoils system" compare to contemporary interpretations of it? |
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Development of universal manhood suffrage. |
The most obvious indicator of the supremacy of democracy in the United States was the ...? |
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Economic |
The major issues dominating politics in the 1820s and the 1830s were ...? |
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Removed to areas beyond white expansion. |
Andrew Jackson's attitude toward Native Americans was that they should be ...? |
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The forced relocation of the Cherokees to Oklahoma |
The Trail of Tears refers to ...? |
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The personal feud between Jackson and Calhoun |
The nullification crisis was strongly influenced by ...? |
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Nicholas Biddle |
Who was the president of the national bank and Andrew Jackson's chief opponent in the "Bank War"? |
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Was the first one that went beyond strictly constitutional arguments. |
The major significance of Jackson's national bank veto message was that it ...? |
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He was a forceful and domineering president, unafraid of breaking the Constitution to gain what he wanted. |
Why was Andrew Jackson so influential in the mid-1800s? |
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An alleged deal whereby Henry Clay threw the presidency to John Quincy Adams in the election of 1824 in return for being named Secretary of State. |
The "corrupt bargain" was ...? |
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Was an early indication of dangerous future divisions. |
The nullification crisis of the early 1830s ...? |
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Like democracy, they were open to all white men, but closed to women, blacks and Indians; they also showed how people were mobile - physically, socially, economically and politically. |
How did hotels symbolize the American spirit in the 1820s - 1840s? |
