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The United States experienced a period of economic prosperity in the years after the War of 1812

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True

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Support for the Tariff of 1816 came primarily from the South

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False

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The Bank of the United States quickly ended the Panic of 1819 by making credit more easily available.

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False

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As a territory, Missouri has not allowed Slavery.

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False

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John Quincy Adams displayed superb political skills during his term as president

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False

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Following the expiration of the first Bank of the United States in 1811, state banks:

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Issued an excess of paper money

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John C. Calhoun accepted the Tariff of 1816 because he:

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expected the South would become a manufacturing center

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The American System included support for all of the following policies EXCEPT:

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Free public schools

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The 1824 election was ultimately decided by:

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The House of Preventatives

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What significant issues did the Missouri Compromise aim to resolve?

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the extension of slavery

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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 rules that:

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The Second Bank of the United States was constitutinal

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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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Which of the following is NOT true of John Quincy Adams?

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He was a firm believer in strict construction of the Constitution

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In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Marshall court struck down that state's ability to tax:

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The national Bank

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The immediate cause of the Panic of 1819 was:

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A sudden collapse of cotton prices

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The Missouri Compromise stipulated that in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36*30':

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Slavery would be excluded

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The four major points of the Monroe Doctrine contained all of the following EXCEPT:

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The United States States would consider European intervention in South America to be an act of war.

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The "corrupt bargain" in the election of 1824 referred to:

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The Belief that clay supported Adams in return for becoming secretary of state

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The 1828 presidential campaign was dominated by:

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vicious personal attacks

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Which statement in true in regards to democracy in the Age of Jackson?

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The justification for the disfranchisement of women was similar to that used against blacks.

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Jackson adhered to what philosophy during the nullification crisis?

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The national government was supreme.

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Andrew Jackson's inauguration was:

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a large, rowdy event.

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The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville's Tocqueville on Democracy was that:

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American democracy really represents an important cultural shift.

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Democrats in the 1830s generally believed that:

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a 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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How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the 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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The Indian Removal Act of 1830:

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Proposed moving Indian tribes to ares west of the Mississippi River

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After the Panic of 1837, working-class Americans could expect all of the following EXCEPT:

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Government Assistance

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One undebatable fact about the Jacksonian era is:

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The dramatic increase in voter participation by 1840

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Which of the following statements about the growth of democracy during the Jacksonian era is true?

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Politics was no longer the realm of the prominent and wealthy.

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Which of the following statements was NOT true of Jackson's inauguration?

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There was widespread political violence after the inauguration.

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Jackson's veto of the Maysville Road Bill demonstrated his:

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Belief that the federal government should not fund purely local projects

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President Jackson's attitude toward the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia was:

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Defiance

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Jackson viewed the Bank of the United States as:

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A "monster" that served the interest of a wealthy few

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George Fitzhugh opposed Jackson's democratic ideals, saying that in every society, "some were born with saddles on their backs, and others booted and spurred to ride them"

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True

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Jackson"s inauguration was so raucous that he was spirit away from the festivities for his own safety.

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True

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President Jackson response to the nullification crisis was to ask Congress to raise the tariff.

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False

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Most Whigs were states' rights advocates.

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False

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Jacksonian democracy involved the extension of voting rights to blacks, Indian, and women.

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False

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The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from:

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Older states like Virginia to the Lower South.

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The term "Lords of the Loom" refers to:

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Early New England factory owners.

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Gender roles under slavery:

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Differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness.

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Slave religion:

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Combined African tradition and Christian beliefs.

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The Brer Rabbit stories of slave folklore:

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Celebrated how the weak cold outsmart the more powerful.

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By 1860, the significance of Britain to the souther economy was based on the fact that:

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Britain was a major importer of Southern cotton

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The rapid expansion of the cotton belt in the South:

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ensured that the region became more dependent on enslaved black workers

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The rules that governed virtually every aspect of slave life were known as:

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A slave code

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Why were slave women valued by slave owners?

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Their ability to reproduced increased the number of slaves owned.

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Why was organized resistance to slavery by slaves risky?

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Southern Whites possessed overwhelming authority and firepower.

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The development of southern industry:

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Lagged behind the North

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The South's population:

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Had a high proportion of native-born, both black and white

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As southerners moved farther west and south between 1812 and 1860:

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Cotton production soared

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The frequency of dueling in the South was probably cause by:

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Southerners' exalted senses of honor

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To be called a "planter." one had to:

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Own at least twenty slaves

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The legal prohibition that denied slaves the right to marry:

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did not stop slaves from choosing partners and forging a family life

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Slavery did not affect northern merchants and manufacturers.

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False

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Although New Orleans was the only city of significant size in the South, it did not have a rich immigrant culture.

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False

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Most white southerner families owner at least one slave.

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False

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George Fitzhugh, a Virginia writer, believed slaves in the American South were not only very happy but also, to some degree, the freest people in the World.

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True

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Falling crop prices and soil exhaustion spurred many resident from the Carolina and Virginia to migrate to the Old Southwest.

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True

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The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

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Set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis.

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Common Schools:

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Existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War.

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William Lloyd Garrison:

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Suggested that the North dissolved the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.

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What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?

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The hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery

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The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

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Condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women.

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One significant factor that inspired the Second Great Awakening was:

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Rising fears of secularism among many well-educated Americans

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Horace Mann advocated for a public school system for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

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to give school- age children a year-round learning opportunity.

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Prison reformers of the early 1800s saw a major objective of the penitentiary as:

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Rehabilitation

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The killing of Elijah Lovejoy showed:

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That support of slavery extended into the North

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By the 1830s, John C. Calhoun was arguing that:

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Slavery was a "great good"

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African Americans found the Methodist Baptist churches especially attractive because of their:

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Belief in salvation for all

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Joseph Smith:

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Founded the Mormon Church in western New York

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Brigham Young:

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led the Mormons to Utah

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Which statement best describes the Transcendental Club, which had its first meeting in the 1830s?

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A loosely knit group of diverse, intellectually curious individualists who met to discuss philosophy, religion, and literature

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The Seneca Falls Convention:

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Demanded equal rights for women

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The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the Upper South.

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False

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Horace Mann was a notable promoter of public schools.

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True

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The American Colonization Society established the African nation of Liberia as a new home for free American blacks.

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True

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The intellectual defenses of slavery in the South admitted that the institution offered no benefits to blacks.

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False

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In general Catholics supported the temperance movement.

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False

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