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Which battle gained jackson lasting fame and propelled him into the white house?
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New Orleans
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What area did the Adams-Onis Treaty add to the US ?
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Florida
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The terms of Henry Clay's American System:
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1. High Protective Tariff - J 2. Recharter BUS - J 3. Federally funded internal improvements - X
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What industry did the first American factories appear in?
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Textiles
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Who finally assured that John Quincy Adams became president?
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Henry Clay
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Which president's administration was tainted with the charge of a "corrupt bargain"?
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John Quincy Adams
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HOw successful was John Q Adams as president?
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Not successful : He lost control of congress one year - and had a constant battle with jacksonians
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The election of 1828 saw the birth of a new ear of ________ _________ :
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mass democracy
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What gave the Jacksonians the edge in the election of 1828?
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Their success in portraying their candidate as an authentic man of the people.
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How did Jackson defend the spoils system?
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1st president to defend this practice as a legitimate application of a democratic doctrine.
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What was the only real difference between Jackson's Indian policy and that of previous presidents?
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How rapidly and thoroughly the process should be carried out, and by what means: Immediately began to expel the indians, endorsed states rights, advocated a removal policy with a removal bill.
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What did the case Worcester V. Georgia decide?
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Cherokee are right - Georgia has no right to make them abandon their tribal lands.
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Which president killed the Bank of the US, how, and why was it controversial?
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Jackson: he pulls all of the money out of the bank, he does not have authority over the bank that is created by congress.
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What did the nullification crises reveal that South Carolina would not tolerate?
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Any interference with slavery.
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Would immigrants, freethinkers, catholics, and backwoods farmers usually have voted for the democrats or the Whigs?
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Democrats
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Of the Democrats and Whigs, which party appealed to evangelical Protestants more?
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Whigs
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Contrast the position of the Whigs and Democrats on the following issues: the tariff, the Bank of the US, federally financed internal improvements.
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Whigs: High Tariff, Want Bank of US, wanted federally fringed internal improvements. Democrats: against a tariff, Do not want a bank of the us, and do not want federally financed internal improvements.
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What does the term "trail of tears" refer to ?
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When the Cherokee were forced by military power under the command of Jackson in 1838 to leave their land and settle beyond the Mississippi. 4,000/16,000 died.
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What was the sociological reality behind the rise of the Cult of True Womanhood?
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A growing division between the working lives of the middle class men and women.
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What was the difference between the Great Awakening of the frontier and in the North?
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South: Camp meetings; Rural Areas; Emotionally driven and extravagant; turned away from social reform North: small the medium towns and cities; Formed societies devoted to the redemption of the human race in general and the American Society in particular.
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Describe the achievements of the Seneca Falls Convention:
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(Elizabeth cady stantons house ) declaration of sentiments
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What did the term discovery of childhood mean?
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distinct phase of life , new way of looking at life
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Horace Mann
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Public Schools: father of Public Education
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Dorthea Dix
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Assylum reformation
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Elizaveth Cady Stanton
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Women rights movements
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Theodore Dwight Weld
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Abolitionist
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What role did "ranceros" play in California by 1833?
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Large landowners given permission (mexican congress to emancipate indinas from the church control and open up the mission lands to settlement) to become rulers of old california and masaters of the indigenous population - subject indians to harsh servitude - given about 50,000 acres of land
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What was the great overland route that brought the wagon trains of American migrants to the far wast?
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Oregon Trail
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what position did Northern Anti-Slavery Whigs take towards Tyler's annexation of Texas and Why?
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Whigs did not like the idea of annexing texas : it would probably enter as a slave state and could possibly be cut in to 3-5 states
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List 3 ways that Anglo settlers in Texas had displeased Mexican authorities by 1829:
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1. You have to be Catholic - people were practicing their own religion 2. You cannot keep slaves - people were keeping slaves 3. Mexico tries to put tariff on goods coming in fromt he U.S. into Texas - Most Smuggle
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in what sense what John Tyler and accidental president profoundly out of sympathy with the rest of his party?
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He was vice president when william henry harrison died in office - he was picked has harrisons running mate to broaden the whig appeal
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What was the major issue of the election of 1844?
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To annex texas or make it a union state.
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Which president was elected on a platform calling for the annexation of Texas and Oregon?
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James K Polk
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List John L. O'Sullivan's main ideas that lay behind his term "manifest destiny"
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1. God was on the side of American Expansionism 2. Free development - "extending the area of freedom" 3. population growth required the outlet that territorial acquisitions would provide * the united states would someday occupy the entire north American Continent
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What two nations did most european immigrants who came to America between 1840 - and 1860 come from?
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Ireland Germany
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What nation did the US nearly go to war with over the Oregon Territory?
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Great Britain
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How did Polk start the Mexican war?
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He set up a fort on shared territory (Rio Grande) between mexico and the us on an undisputed border.
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Did the majority of the Whig party oppose or support the Mexican War? Why?
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Oppose: Argued that US had no valid claims to areas South of the Nueces
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What was Abraham Lincoln's position on the Mexican War?
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The Mexican War was not proper: 1. He thinks Polk has illegitimately started this war 2. Afraid that new western land will spread slavery and give control of federal government to the slave states.
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What was a major legacy of the Mexican war concerning slavery?
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The real purpose of the war was to spread slavery and increase political powers of the southern states
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Why is the period 1816 - 1824 called the Era of good Feelings" and why is this term only partly accurate?
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Historian wrote a book called the Era of Good feelings. Peaceful, nationalism, unity, only 1 political party. However: panic of 1819 - recession
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What side did the Marshall Court take on the issue of staes rights vs federal power in its rulings between 1918 and 1824?
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federal power
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Who was known as the Great Compromiser and why? waht were the terms of his missouri compromise?
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Henry Clay: - Maine and Missouri draws Missouri compromise line:36 30 line - Maine comes in as a free state - Missouri comes in as a slave state - any territory of Louisiana Purchase that comes in North of that line will be free - Any south of the line will be slave states
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In what sense was Andrew Jackson a common man?
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from the frontier - scotch irish - fought over 100 duels - horse racing - cockfighting - Socially and Culturally he IS a common man Politically and Economically he is NOT a common man
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What group was Jacksonian Democracy limited to?
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White Men
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4 widely adopted political changes during the age of jackson?
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1. No more property requirement to vote 2. Electoral College determined by a popular vote in each state 3. National nominating convention 4. more elected officials (judges)
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what does it mean to say that there was a general decline of deference during the Age of Jackson?
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Deference: common people have to treat wealthy like royalty with titles and addresses common were seperated from the wealthy Titles no longer exist, plays become melodramas meant for the common people, and hotel dining was no longer separate, fashion
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who was the first president to call his party the democratic party?
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Andrew Jackson
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How did American culture in the Jacksonian period accurately reflect the rise of the democratic spirit?
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Hotels and Melodrama plays emphasize in equality 0 no separate dining rooms and plays are casual.
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What was the main economic reason why the South opposed the protective tariff?
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SOuth needs to sell cotton to england 1. fear of retaliation 2. increase price for manufacturing goods
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What was Jackson's most forceful objection to the existence of the Bank of the US?
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It is not subject to any popular democratic control.
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What was the greatest threat to American democracy according the Jacksonians?
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concentrated power in the hands of the elite
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Who wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest and what were its main arguments?
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John C. Calhoun: 1. Compact theory of the constitution 2. nullification 3. secession
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What did the nullification crisis say about he future of the Union?
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Slavery
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What united all of the Whig Party?
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anti - jacksonians
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What was the basic or immediate cause of the us - mexican war?
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dispute over the border between tx and mexico
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what was the real cause of the us- mexican war?
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we want california and new mexico - we build a fort on rio grande
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what did advocates of manifest destiny call mexicans and indians of the west and what did they believe about the morality of taking land from them by force?
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Indians: savage Mexicans: mix race- mestizos Morality: if the land is not being used for developing than we should use it
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Main ideas of Thoreaus essay on civil disobedience:
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Peaceful protest non cooperation
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