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60 Cards in this Set
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Judith Sargent Murray insisted that women had as much right as men to exercise all their talents and needed what to do this? |
educational opportunities |
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What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807? |
It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports—an amazing use of federal power, especially by a president supposedly dedicated to a weak central government. |
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In its decision in the case of Fletcher v. Peck, the U.S. Supreme Court: |
exercised the authority to overturn a state law that the Court considered in violation of the U.S. Constitution. |
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Why did Jefferson use the U.S. navy against North African states? |
Tripoli had declared war on the United States after Jefferson had refused demands for increased payments to the Barbary pirates. |
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The Sedition Act of 1798: |
led Jefferson to argue that it was a violation of the First Amendment. |
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The Kentucky resolution originally stated that: |
states could nullify laws of Congress. |
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The 1796 election pitted John Adams and Thomas Pinckney against: |
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. |
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The treaty that ended the War of 1812: |
restored the prewar status quo. |
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Why did the United States become a one-party nation following the War of 1812? |
The Hartford Convention’s allegedly treasonous activities fatally damaged the Federalist Party’s reputation. |
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Opponents of Hamilton’s economic plan: |
agreed to a compromise that included placing the national capital in the South. |
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With whom did Alexander Hamilton and his supporters believe that the United States needed to cultivate a firm relationship in order to survive as a nation? |
the British |
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Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to: |
make the United States a major commercial and military power. |
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Which one of the following is true of New Orleans under Spanish rule? |
Free blacks had nearly the same rights as white citizens. |
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Pierre Charles L’Enfant is well known for: |
;designing Washington, D.C. |
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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to: |
the Alien and Sedition Acts. |
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Which one of the following was NOT an objection raised by critics of Hamilton’s proposals? |
The proposals would prevent the development of manufacturing, and manufacturing was vital to America’s future. |
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"Strict constructionists” believed: |
the federal government could exercise only powers specifically listed in the Constitution. |
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Which one of the following is NOT true of the presidential election of 1800? |
Thomas Jefferson’s victory in the New England states proved to be key to his election. |
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Thomas Jefferson’s victory in the New England states proved to be key to his election |
Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism. |
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What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison? |
The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review. |
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The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the United States between 1840 and 1860 were from: |
Germany and Ireland. |
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The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in: |
transportation and communication. |
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The “American System of manufactures”: |
relied on the mass production of interchangeable parts. |
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Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s? |
Methodist |
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The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century: |
stimulated the coal-mining industry. |
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Most of the states that entered the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located: |
west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
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According to John O’Sullivan, the “manifest destiny” of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to: |
a divine mission. |
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What problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin? |
Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive. |
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Which one of the following is NOT an example of the significance of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin? |
The completion of the Erie Canal allowed the transportation of thousands of pounds of cotton per day. |
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What encouraged the building of factories in coastal towns such as New Bedford and even large inland cities such as Chicago by the 1840s? |
Steam power meant factories no longer had to be near waterfalls and rapids to generate the power. |
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The “German triangle” in the mid-nineteenth century referred to: |
Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee—cities with large German populations. |
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Women who worked at the Lowell mills: |
lived in closely supervised boardinghouses. |
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The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest? |
New York |
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For which one of the following did nativists NOT blame immigrants in the 1840s? |
increased Protestantism |
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The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was: |
textiles. |
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How did the market revolution affect the lives of artisans? |
Gathered in factories, they faced constant supervision and the breakdown of craftsmanship into specialized tasks. |
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Which one of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the South? |
The South had to develop a highly effective railroad system to transport goods from west to east. |
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What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century? |
cotton |
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The role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum America was primarily to: |
focus her energies on the home and children. |
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At the Lowell textile mills: |
the owners established lecture halls, churches, and a worker-edited periodical to occupy the workers’ free time. |
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The Force Act of 1833: |
gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs |
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Thomas Jefferson suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820–1821: |
revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union. |
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A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was: |
that both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage. |
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In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting: |
did not exist for white males in the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen. |
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By the time of Jackson’s presidency, politics: |
often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames. |
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money: |
promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver. |
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The Monroe Doctrine: |
declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization. |
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The nullification crisis: |
involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery. |
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The nullification crisis ended: |
with a compromise tariff. |
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In the presidential election of 1824, who received the most votes but failed to win a majority of either the popular or electoral votes (requiring the House of Representatives to select a president)? |
Andrew Jackson |
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The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called: |
the spoils system |
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Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820: |
the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free areas. |
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Who argued in a famous debate with South Carolina’s Robert Hayne that the people, not the states, created the Constitution? |
Daniel Webster |
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Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification? |
John C. Calhoun |
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The Panic of 1837: |
was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton. |
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By 1840, approximately __________ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote. |
90 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decisi |
supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity. |
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How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency? |
He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public. |
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In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that: |
Indians were wards of the federal government. |
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Many of the members of Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet, as his group of close advisers was known, were: |
newspaper editors. |