APUSH: Ch. 10 – Flashcards

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Andrew Jacksons inauguration was
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A large, rowdy event
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In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting
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Continued in Virginia because slaveholders dominated the states politics
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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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By 1840, approximately _______ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote.
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90
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By the 1830's, the term "citizen" in America had become synonymous with the right to _______
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Vote
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Women writers benefited from
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The growth of the reading public, part of the democratization of American life
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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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By 1860, free black men could vote on the same basis as whites only in
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Five New England states
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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 nations 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 is 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 term "Era of Good Feelings" refers to the leeks is American history when
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There seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration
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Under the Mississippi compromise of 1820
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The remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free Zones
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Why was a second Missouri Compromise necessary
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Missouri's state constitution barred free blacks from entering the state
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Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy is 1820-1821
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Revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the union
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The independence movements in Latin America between 1810 & 1822
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Paralleled in some ways the independence movement that created the United States
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The Monroe Doctrine
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Declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization
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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)?
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Andrew Jackson
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By the time of Jacksons presidency, Politics
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Often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames
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The Ira give of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called
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The spoils system
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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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Many of the members of Jacksons Kitchen Cabinet as his group of close advisers was known were
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Newspaper editors
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Democrats in the 1830's generally believed that
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New corporate enterprises were suspicious
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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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Who wrote "Exposition and Protest" and emerged by the early 1830's as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification
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John C. Calhoun
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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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Who argued In a famous debate with South Carolina's Robert Hayne that the people, not the states, created the constitution
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Daniel Webster
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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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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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The U.S. Supreme courts1832 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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Which Indian nation fought a war with the U.S. Army from 1835-1842 to resist removal to the west?
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Seminole
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Who was the president of the second bank of the U.S. In 1832?
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Nicholas Biddle
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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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In the 1830s "hard money" 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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What was president Martin Van Buren's new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal governments relationship to banking?
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He proposed that federal funds be controlled by govt. officials rather than by bankers
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In the presidential election of 1840
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The Democrats and Whigs both produced platforms that clearly laid out the parties' positions on major public issues
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Whose 1840 presidential campaign portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin & liked to drink hard cider
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William Henry Harrison
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As president John Tyler
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Vetoed a bill to create a new national bank this angering Whigs
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