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Andrew Jackson's inauguration was:
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a large, rowdy event.
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By the 1830s, the term \"citizen\" in America had become synonymous with the right to:
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vote.
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In the wake of the War of 1812, younger Republicans like Henry Clay and John Calhoun:
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continued to support agrarianism, but believed that the nation's economic independence required a manufacturing sector.
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In response to the demand for internal improvements, President James Madison:
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called for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to build roads and canals.
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The Second Bank of the United States was created:
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by Congress in 1816, with the support of President Madison.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money:
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promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver.
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The Panic of 1819:
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prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors but hurt creditors.
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In its decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
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the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional.
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the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional.
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the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
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Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:
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revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union.
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The Monroe Doctrine:
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declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization.
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As president, John Quincy Adams proposed a comprehensive plan for an activist state, which called for all of the following EXCEPT:
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free homesteads for settlers on western public lands.
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Which of the following did NOT happen during the election of 1828?
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Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the \"corrupt bargain\" of 1824.
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By the time of Jackson's presidency, politics:
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often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.
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The nullification crisis:
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involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.
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The Force Act of 1833:
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gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs.
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The nullification crisis ended:
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with a compromise tariff
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How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?
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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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\"Hard money\" in the 1830s referred to:
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gold and silver, also called \"specie.\"
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The Panic of 1837:
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was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton.
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many of the members of jackson's kitchen cabinet, as his group of close advisors was known, were:
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newspaper editors
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the term \"era of good feelings\" refers to the period of american history when:
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there seemed to be political harmony during the monroe administration.
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the U.S. supreme court's 1832 worcester v. georgia decision:
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supported the right of the cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity
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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?
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John C. Calhoun
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The practice of giving political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:
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the spoils system
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The Dorr war
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pitted proponents of expanded voting rights for white against the status quo in Rhode Island
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the key insight of alexis de tocqueville's democracy in america was that:
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American democracy really represented an important cultural shift
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In the early to mid- nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting:
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survived in all of the slave states, but in none of the free states
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A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:
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that both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage.
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The national political parties of the second American party system were:
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Democrats and Whigs
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Democrats in the 1830s generally believed that:
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new corporate enterprises were suspicious
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Which is NOT true about the Whigs?
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The Whigs' strongest support came from the lower Northwestand the southern backcountry.
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The controversy over Peggy Eaton:
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helped to enhance Martin Van Buren's influence during the Jackson administration.
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In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:
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Indians were wards of the federal government
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In the 1830s, Andrew Jackson believed all of the following about the Second Bank of the United States EXCEPT that:
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the Bank did not allow for the issuance of enough paper money to meet national demand.
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What was President Martin Van Buren's new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal government's relationship to banking?
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He proposed that federal funds be controlled by government officials rather than by bankers.
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In the presidential election of 1840:
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the Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by Democrats
