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Front 1

What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?

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Old Hickory

Front 2

When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to:

Back 2

the westward expansion of slavery.

Front 3

Andrew Jackson was the standard bearer for which political party?

Back 3

Democrats

Front 4

The "Era of Good Feeling" was so-called because:

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they were years of one-party government.

Front 5

Which of the following was not a significant development during the decade following Jackson's presidency?

Back 5

President Van Buren shifted vast amounts of federal funds to state banks.

Front 6

Which of the following was not a paradoxical feature of Andrew Jackson's public career?

Back 6

Although suspicious of creditors and paper money, he was a leading defender of the Bank of the United States.

Front 7

A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that

Back 7

European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.

Front 8

Which was not a way women became increasingly active in the public sphere during the early nineteenth century?

Back 8

They exercised the suffrage after 1807.

Front 9

Which of the following questions was not a key focus of political controversy during the Jackson years?

Back 9

Should women have the right to vote?

Front 10

Which was not part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Back 10

The children of slaves already in Missouri were to be freed at age twenty-five.

Front 11

Which is not an element of Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?

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Marshall found that contracts between states and private citizens could not be abridged.

Front 12

Which of the following was not a key difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?

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The Democrats were united in opposition to paper money; the Whigs were united in support of it.

Front 13

The Panic of 1819 was caused by:

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the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.

Front 14

What political party was organized to oppose President Jackson?

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Whigs

Front 15

The portion of President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress that asserted that the United States would oppose further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas, that the United States would stay out of European wars, and that European powers were not to interfere with the newly independent Latin American states is called:

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the Monroe Doctrine.

Front 16

Which was not an aspect of the pageantry surrounding elections in nineteenth-century American democracy?

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the secret ballot

Front 17

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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announcement of American System program; Missouri controversy; "Tariff of Abominations"; veto of Second Bank recharter

Front 18

Which was not an attribute of Alexis de Toqueville's vision of democracy?

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All Americans over age 21 ought to, Toqueville wrote, have the right to vote.

Front 19

Which was not an element in the 1841 Dorr War?

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The war's bloodshed led to the deaths of more than 246 people, and to Dorr's execution.

Front 20

Which of the following was not a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?

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Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.

Front 21

A significant element of the American System was

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a) a national bank.
b) tariffs on imported manufactured goods.
c) federally sponsored "internal improvements."
d) all of the above
ALL OF THE ABOVE

Front 22

In the sentence, "Suffrage was the "the first mark of liberty, the only true badge of the freeman," define "suffrage":

Back 22

the vote

Front 23

President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as:

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the American System.