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30 Cards in this Set
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The election of 1816 marked what?
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The end of the Fedaralist Party, The beginning of the Era of Good Feelings, and The inauguration of the American System.
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What was not a component of Henry Clay's American System?
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Universal manhood suffrage
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The Monroe Doctrine declared what?
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The Old World powers of Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
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What did the Missouri Compromise not achieve?
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It did not provide for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri.
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The Era of Good Feelings ended after what?
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The Missouri crisis, The Monroe Doctrine, and The Panic of 1819.
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What tainted John Quincy Adam's presidency?
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The "corrupt bargain"
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What does the term "spoils system refer to?
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The distribution of civil service jobs to political patrons.
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Why did Andrew Jackson and western farmers hate the Bank of the United States?
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They saw it as a symbol of too much federal power, aristocracy, and wealth, It didn't print enough cheap paper money.
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Why did southerners dislike high tariffs on imported goods?
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The south had very few factories, Southerners purchases many European goods, and thought it showed gov. bias against the south.
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Why was Jackson outraged by South Carolina's vote to nullify the Tariff of Abominations?
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He detested the state's outright disobedience to the federal government.
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The tariff of 1833 was important primarily because what?
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It prevented the Civil War from starting thirty years earlier than it did.
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What heavily influenced John Calhoun's "South Carolina Exposition and Protest"?
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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.
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Jackson flagrantly disregarded a previous Supreme Court ruling when he...?
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Dismantled the Bank of the United States.
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What didn't the Whigs support?
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The westward expansion of slavery.
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During the mid-nineteenth century, most immigrants to the United States came from where?
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Germany and Ireland
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What did the Know-Nothing Party oppose? |
Immigration |
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Who blocked the annexation of Texas? |
The Whigs |
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What didn't the democrats campaign for? |
A Bank of the United States |
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What caused the Mexican War? |
The dispute over Texas, Polk's desire to annex California, and unpaid Mexican debts. |
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Northern manufacturing blossomed between 1820 and 1840 because of...? |
The cotton gin, interchangeable parts, and teh mechanicall mower-reaper. |
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What did the Erie Canal link? |
Farmlands in the West to cities in the North. |
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What was the main reason that Britain agreed to give the United States all of the Oregon Territory south of the 49th parallel? |
Americans in Oregon greatly outnumbered British settlers. |
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Why did Whigs block the annexation of Texas in 1836? |
They feared that Texas would become a slave state. |
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Where were the majority of internal transportation improvements made during the antebellum period? |
In the North, and West, but not in the South. |
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Cyrus McCormick's mechanical mower-reaper stimulated agricultural produdction in the...? |
West |
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What was the temperance movement's greatest triumph? |
The Maine Law |
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Many of the most prominent reformers during the antebellum period were...? |
Women |
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What wasn't one of the consequences of Eli Whitney's inventions? |
The South began importing more manufactured goods from the North. |
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The "Gag Resolution" in the House of Represenatives temporarily banned discussion about what? |
Slavery |
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The term "states' rights" refers to the belief that...? |
States should have more power than the federal government. |
