History 2

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1. What was the basic concept underlying the spoils system?

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-Jackson wanted to punish Adam’s people who attacked him during the campaign.
-people shouldn’t hold gov’t jobs for a long time

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What was Jackson's popularity and success primarily the result of?

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-he was a great hero and extraordinary person
- people could identify with him.
-man of the people, born in a cabin, average citizen

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What was Jackson's attitude toward nullification?

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-against it
-if a state could nullify a law, the union did not exist

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4. Where were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole forcibly removed from?

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Georgia (FL, GA, AL, MI)

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During 1835 and 1836, what was a result of the creation of the "pet" banks?

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-Farmers kept buying land
-Prices tumbled 30%
-Almost caused depresssion

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In his handling of foreign affairs, Jackson often what?

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-pushed hard (overbearing) for solution to very small problems

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What was the early nineteenth century the American population like?

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Population doubled every 22 years

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By the 1830s, where did non-agricultural work increasingly take place?

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VA, NC

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9. What your text labels "the third pillar of the emerging American middle class" (alongside the family and church) which had neither colonial precedents nor European equivalents was?

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Voluntary associations (i.e. churches)

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Who were the many religious communities that tried to create "backwoods utopias"?

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Pilgrims, SHAKERS, Mormons

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One of the few advocates of women's rights who did not begin her career in the abolitionist movement and who made a frontal assault on all forms of sexual discrimination in Women in the Nineteenth Century was?

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Margaret Fuller

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Who was the leading light of New York literature and author of such humorous tales as "Rip Van Winkle"?

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Washington Irving

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What was one of Hawthorne's greatest works was his grim, but sympathetic analysis of the consequences of adultery?

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Scarlet Letter
-Condemn not the woman, but those who judged her

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Walt Whitman's book of poems in rambling free verse on commonplace topics in coarse language was?

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Leaves of Grass

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What painting did the members of the romantic Hudson River school specialize in?

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Grandiose pictures of wild landscapes

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What were the religious pamphlets and books distributed by the American Tract Society?

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-played down denomination differences
-Evangelical Christian

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In the controversy leading to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, what was England's main goal?

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-Needed a small part of territory to connect Halifax and Quebec
-Make Canada/Maine border

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Before Texas gained its independence in 1836, a major conflict between American settlers in Texas and the Mexican government was?

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-Settlers not loyal to Mexico
-Mexico restricted further immigrants
-Did not speak Spanish
-Kept slaves

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In 1840, California could be most accurately described as?

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-Spanish with very few Anglos
-Catholic
-Sparsely settled

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Why did Tyler push through the annexation of Texas as a Joint Resolution of Congress?

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Avoid necessity of 2/3 vote in the senate

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What was Mexico's main grievance against the United States?

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-US bullied Mexico
-Mexico never recognized independence of Texas
-Territory lines

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In the election of 1848, what were the supporters of Martin Van Buren nicknamed?

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Barnburners (Radicalism)

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When Zachary Taylor died, the politician who became president and was instrumental in achieving the Compromise of 1850 was?

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Millard Fillmore

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On the eve of the Civil War, what percentage of white southern families owned at least one slave?

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1 in 4 owned slaves

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As a social institution, what was slavery in the United States?

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Population growth mirrored whites

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What did the development of the rich anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania allow?

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-Could be floated cheaply on canals
-Used to make heat for smelting
- and steam drive machinary

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What did most of the industrial workers in the mid-nineteenth century do?

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Worked for low wages

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Why were the Clipper ships designed by Donald McKay popular?

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Speed (twice as fast)

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What was the first railroad to begin operating in the United States?

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-Baltimore and Ohio railroad
-13 miles long

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What was a result of the new fugitive slave law from the Compromise of 1850?

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-A commission was set up to declare slaves either free or fugitive
--More commonly a fugitive deal earned commissioner a higher reward

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What did the "Young America" movement argue?

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Spread democracy
Democracy triumphed everywhere that public opinion was strong

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According to your text, "the Henry Clay of his generation," who based his politics on expansion and popular sovereignty was?

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Stephen A. Douglas

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Northern feelings reached a boiling point on the fugitive slave law with the arrest and return of?

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Dred and Harriett Scott

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In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas set out to make Lincoln look like a(n)?

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-Abolitionists (accused him of favoring racial equality and refusing to abide by Supreme Court rulings.

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After secession began in 1860, the proposed constitutional amendment which would have guaranteed the future existence of slavery south of the old Missouri Compromise line was the?

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Crittenden Compromise

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At the start of the Civil War, Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward was?

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Ablest and best known of Lincoln appointees

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Who were Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Benjamin Wade leaders of?

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Radicals Faction (Republicans)

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Where did the North come to the brink of war with?when it built powerful cruisers and ironclad "rams" for the Confederate Navy.

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Great Britain (London)

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At what location where were both sides shocked by the staggering casualties sustained?

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Shiloh

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How did blacks react to the Emancipation Proclamation?

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-Stood as a promise of future developments
-They eagerly joined northern alliance to fight south

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Grant's victory at __________ led to Lincoln's giving him command of all troops west of the Appalachians.

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Vicksburg (MI)

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What did Sherman's march through Georgia and the fall of Atlanta in 1864, contribute to?

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-Economic (destroy south)
-Physcological, that North would prevail over South

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What did President Lincoln's propose as a plan for reconstructing the Union?

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To forgive the south rather than punish. Allowed the white southerners to control the reconstruction process.

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What were the measures restricted former slaves to working in farming and domestic service?

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Money was scarce and capital accumulated slowly. Interest rates were extremely high.

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What Amendment to the Constitution broadly defined American citizenship and, according to your text, "reduced the power of all the states."?

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14th

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What was Thaddeus Stevens a congressional advocate of giving _______ to every adult male ex-slave.

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40 acres

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The average northerner lost interest in Reconstruction once it became reasonably certain that blacks could do what?

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Vote/hold office

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Who decided on the disputed electoral votes in the election of 1876?

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Congress elected electoral commission,

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What are some results of the Compromise of 1877?

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Ended reconstruction and inaugurated a new political order in the south

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What was one of the worst scandals of Grant's administration?

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