Standard 2 - Review Questions for Brainscape

Question 1

Why did James K. Polk want to go to war with Mexico over the Southwest and almost go to war with England over the Oregon Territory?

Answer 1

He had promised the country that he would complete Manifest Destiny if he were elected President

Question 2

Why did many people migrate westward during the early 1800’s?

Answer 2

LOTS of cheap land - especially for farming - was available.

Question 3

How did westward expansion impact democracy in America?

Answer 3

Many people could now afford land - which was a requirement for voting at the time. So many people owned land that requirement was dropped.

Question 4

Who won the first election after the landowning requirement for voting was dropped?

Answer 4

Andrew Jackson

Question 5

Which regions supported the “tariff of abominations?”

Answer 5

North & West

Question 6

How did most northerners feel about slavery during the early Antebellum period?

Answer 6

Indifferent - The abolition movement didn’t grow until after the 2nd Great Awakening

Question 7

What state believed that it was the State’s Right to nullify laws it didn’t like - like the “Tariff of Abominations”?

Answer 7

South Carolina

Question 8

The main idea behind the Monroe Doctrine was that?

Answer 8

Countries in the eastern hemishpere could no longer claim land in the western hemisphere

Question 9

What was the immediate cause of the Mexican-American War?

Answer 9

Mexican soldiers fired on American troops in a territory that both sides claimed was theirs.

Question 10

Was Texas added to the US BEFORE or AFTER the Mexican-American War?

Answer 10

Before

Question 11

Why didn’t Southerners support the “Tariff of Abominations”?

Answer 11

It would have raised the price of most of the goods they bought and wouldn’t benefit them at all.

Question 12

What did the Cherokee do to try and keep their land before Jackson forced them on the “Trail of Tears”?

Answer 12

They assimilated into white culture (changed their clothes, religion, education, etc.)

Question 13

What economic activities flourished in the North during the antebellum period?

Answer 13

Shipping, banking, industries

Question 14

What part of the Continental US was the LAST to be settled?

Answer 14

The west

Question 15

Why did the South want to go to war with Mexico?

Answer 15

If we won land from Mexico, the South assumed those lands would become slave states. When they sent representatives to Congress, they would always side with the South.

Question 16

The Marshall Court (the court under John Marshall’s leadership) is best known for consistently doing what?

Answer 16

Strengthening the power of the Federal Government

Question 17

What is Judicial Review?

Answer 17

The Power of the Supreme Court to declare that a law is NOT Constitutional - this strikes the law down. This power was added to the Supreme Court when John Marshall was the chief justice.

Question 18

The Central Conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson was over what idea?

Answer 18

How to interpret the Constitution - Loosely or Strictly?

Question 19

How is “Judicial Review” an example of “checks and balances?”

Answer 19

The Supreme Court has the power to determine if laws passed by Congress and signed by the President are Constitutional - when it does this it’s checking to make sure they didn’t overstep their bounds.

Question 20

Why was Alexander Hamilton’s plan for a national bank an example of a “loose interpretation” of the Constitution?

Answer 20

The Constitution did not specifically say that Congress had the power to create a national bank - but it didn’t prohibit it from creating one either