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Which of the following key questiins was not a key focus of political controversy during the Jackson years?
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Should women have the right to vote?
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Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called
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The spoils system
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Andrew Jackson was the bearer for which political party?
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Democrats
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McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that
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The Bank of the United States was constitutionally legal
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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
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The "Era of Good Feeling" was so-called because
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They were years of one party government
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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 the
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Monroe Doctrine
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A significant element of the American System was
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A national bank, tariffs on imported manufactured goods, and federally sponsored "internal improvements"
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How much of the adult white male population in the United States could vote by 1840?
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Approximately 90%
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What political party was organized to oppose President Jackson?
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Whigs
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What 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
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What was not an aspect of the pageantry surrounding elections in 19th century American democracy?
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The secret ballot
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What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?
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Old Hickory
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What was not a significant development during the decade following Jackson's presidency?
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President Van Buren shifted vast amounts of federal funds to state banks
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What was not an attribute of Alexis de Toqueville's vision of democracy?
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All Americans over 21 must have the right to vote
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By 1860, most states had eliminated ________ from their voting requirements
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Property restrictions
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What was not part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
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The children of slaves already in Missouri were to be freed at the age of 25
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What 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
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What was not a paradoxical feature of Andrew Jackson's public career?
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Although suspicious of creditors and paper money, he was a leading defender of the Bank of the United States
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When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to
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The westward expansion of slavery
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Define "suffrage"
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The vote
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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 Secon Bank recharter
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The Panic of 1819 was caused by
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The land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic
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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
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What was a factor in the split between Andrew Jackson and John Calhoun?
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The Nullification Crisis
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What did Andrew Jackson believe was associated with the outcome of the Election of 1824?
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A corrupt bargain
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What was a factor in the split between Andrew Jackson and John Calhoun?
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The Peggy Eaton situation
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What was not an element in the 1841 Dorr War?
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The war's bloodshes lef to the deaths of more than 246 people, and to Dorr's execution
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A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine is that
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European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas
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What was not a way women became increasingly active in the public sphere during the early 19th century?
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They exercised the suffrage after 1807
