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__ was a leading enemy of the Second National Bank of the United States

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Andrew Jackson

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The new political coalition which emerged to challenge Democratic control in the 1830s was called the

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Whigs

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The Mexican War was ended by the

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Jackson's policy toward the Native American was to

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remove them to lands west of the Mississippi

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South Carolina's challenge to the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 is callled the

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Nullification Crisis

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An underlying principle commonly agreed upon by Jacksonians was

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suspicion of special privileges and large business corporations

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Martin Van Buren's response to the Panic of 1837 was to

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reject government interference in the economy

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The communitarian group whose members were celibate, held their property in common, valued simplicity and industriousness, stressed equality of labor, and practiced a joyful and fervent religion was

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the Shackers

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The Auburn System was a pioneering experiment in

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prison reform

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The most influential black abolitionist was

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Frederick Douglass

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The most basic goal of the common school movement was

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education for democracy

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The staunch state's rights advocate who became president when William Henry Harrison died was

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John Tyler

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The __ Treaty settled the disputed boundary between Maine and New Brunswick and demonstrated the growing Anglo-American economicdependence

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Webster-Ashburton

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According to your text, in the battle over the independence of Texas, the slaughters at Goliad and at__, a former mission, made peaceful settlement of the dispute with Mexican almost impossible.

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The Alamo

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The leader of the Texas independence movement and first president of the republic of Texas was

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Sam Houston

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Manifest Destiny might best be described as the belief that Americans were

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God's chosen people

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One significant aspect of life on the westward trail in the 1840s was that it

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was especially taxing for women

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In 1846 the United States signed a treaty dividing the Oregon territory along the 49th parallel with

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Great Britain

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The campaign against Mexico City was commanded by General

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Winfield Scott

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Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States

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gained New Mexico and Upper California

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In 1849 approximately 80,000 Americans migrated to California because of the

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start of the gold rush

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The senator who initially organized the legislative program that became the Compromise of 1850 was

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Henry Clay

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The Compromise of 1850 included admitting__as a free state

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California

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The basic concept underlying the "spoils system" was that

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party workers must be rewarded with political office after a successful campaign

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One of the "fundamental tenets of Jacksonian Democracy" was that

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ordinary Americans could do anything

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Immediately after Harrison's inauguration

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Harrison died, was succeeded by the doctrinaire, John tyler, and the political climate of the country changed dramatically.

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By the 1830s, non-agricultural work increasingly took place

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outside the home

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Jackson's attitude toward nullification was to

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oppose it because of his devotion to the Union

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Middle-class families in the 1830s has a(n)

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declining birth rate

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The Illinois town founded by Mormon leader Joseph Smith as a semi-independent state within the federal Union was

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Nauvoo

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One of the most striking aspects of the various practical reform movement of the early nineteenth century was their

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emphasis on creating special facilities for dealing with social problems

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The Senator who pushed for renewal of the Bank of the United States charter in 1832 to provide himself a campaign against Jackson was

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Henry Clay

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Jackson's most powerful weapon against the Bank of the United States was the

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ability to withdraw government revenues for the Bank

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A typical theme of the Second Great Awakening was that

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people could take their salvation into their own hands

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A major characteristic of the new politics of Jacksonian democracy was increased voter turnout

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True

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Many critics of the Bank of the United States accused it of monopolizing public funds in the interests of the rich.

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True

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Andrew Jackson argued that spoils system should be replaced by a civil service to protect government workers from arbitrary dismissal

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False

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Banks which received government deposits denied to the Bank of the United States were known as "pet" banks

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True

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Most of the travelers on the Oregon Trail were young families

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True

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Jackson's most basic objection to the doctrine of nullification was that it absolutely contradicted the ideas of Jefferson

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False

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