Chapter 5

Question 1

Who was the biggest proponent of the “American System” (or economic nationalism)?

Answer 1

Henry Clay

Question 2

Leaders proposed programs to bind the nation together during the last 2 years of who’s 2nd term?

Answer 2

James Madison’s

Question 3

When did The Era of Good Feeling begin?

Answer 3

Right after the war of 1812

Question 4

What best describes Economic Nationalism

Answer 4

A national bank, protective tariffs, and internal improvements

Question 5

What is another name for Economic nationalism

Answer 5

The American System

Question 6

Whose presidency did the Era of Good Feelings mainly take place during?

Answer 6

James Monroe’s

Question 7

What was the lasting impact/precedent set of the Supreme Court case McCulloch vs. Maryland?

Answer 7

It established the supremacy of the federal government over state governments

Question 8

Who led troops into Florida, destroyed several Seminole villages, and eventually removed the Spanish Governor of Florida?

Answer 8

General Andrew Jackson

Question 9

What was the effect of the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 9

It began a long-term American policy of trying to prevent European powers from interfering in Latin American political affairs

Question 10

What happened according the Adams-Onis Treaty?

Answer 10

Spain ceded all of Florida to the US

Question 11

What first increased the demand for cotton since they were able to process cotton faster?

Answer 11

Textile Mills

Question 12

What did the invention of the cotton gin do?

Answer 12

It made separating cotton seeds out of the cotton so much easier that the demand for cotton, slaves, and land increased.

Question 13

Where did the industrial revolution begin?

Answer 13

Great Britain

Question 14

Robert Fulton?

Answer 14

Was responsibe for the 1st steamboat, the Clermont, that could steam up the Hudson River at 150 miles in 32 hours.

Question 15

What was the name of the first TRAIN that could pull passengers down 13 miles of track at 10 mph?

Answer 15

The Tom Thumb

Question 16

Who began operating several textile Mills in Northeastern Massachusetts?

Answer 16

Francis Lowell

Question 17

The name of the first road that was funded by the federal government, state govt., and some private businesses

Answer 17

National Road

Question 18

What did canals do?

Answer 18

allowed big bodies of water to be connected to improve transportation of goods and easier travel

Question 19

The Erie canal

Answer 19

built in upstate New York to connect the Hudson River to Lake Erie

Question 20

Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 20

Eli Whitney

Question 21

Who invented the telegraph?

Answer 21

Samuel Morse

Question 22

What did the telegraph do?

Answer 22

increased the speed at which information could be sent and shared

Question 23

What did Southerners begin to refer to the cotton industry as?

Answer 23

King cotton

Question 24

Who was Denmark Vesey?

Answer 24

A free African American accused of plotting a slave rebellion in 1822 (he was tried, convicted, and killed)

Question 25

Who was Nat Turner

Answer 25

an enslaved minister who believed God instructed him to carry out a slave rebellion, killing 50 white people, in 1831

Question 26

Who was an escaped slave who taught himself how to read and write, became a speaker for the abolitionist movement, started an anti slavery newspaper and became the 1st aa to hold a high ranking office in the federal govt.

Answer 26

Frederick Douglass

Question 27

Who was Gabriel Prosser?

Answer 27

An enslaved man who plotted the first major slave uprising in 1800

Question 28

The large majority of the white population in the South were what?

Answer 28

Yeoman farmers

Question 29

What were slaves not allowed to do based on laws in the South?

Answer 29

Read and write

Question 30

Did the cotton gin make the demand for slaves and slave labor sky rocket?

Answer 30

True.

Question 31

In 1819, who applied for admission to the US as a slave state?

Answer 31

Missouri

Question 32

Why was this a problem?

Answer 32

It would give southern slave states more power in the Senate over the northern free states

Question 33

What else would happen if Missouri were to be admitted as a slave state?

Answer 33

slavery would have to be extended into the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase

Question 34

Before Missouri applied as a slave state who had more power in the House?

Answer 34

The North

Question 35

What caused the Era of Good Feelings to erode?

Answer 35

Sectional disputes over slavery and westward expansion

Question 36

The Missouri Compromise:

Answer 36

Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state to balance the power in the Senate Slavery would be prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of Missouri's south border (not including them)

Question 37

Who was most responsible for getting the Missouri Compromise passed in the South?

Answer 37

Henry Clay

Question 38

What did the elections of 1824 and 1828 show?

Answer 38

How deeply that was party was divided along regional lines.

Question 39

Who won the most popular votes in the election of 1824?

Answer 39

Andrew Jackson

Question 40

Did any candidate win the electoral college in 1824?

Answer 40

No

Question 41

The corrupt bargain:

Answer 41

When the college couldn't decide, the election went to the House, where Henry lay threw his support for John Q Adams. When Adams became president he appointed Clay as Secretary of State, which Jackson's supporters didn't like.

Question 42

Jacksons supporter were called

Answer 42

democrats

Question 43

Clay's supporters were called

Answer 43

national republicans

Question 44

Results of the election of 1828

Answer 44

Jackson defeated Adams with the support of rural and small town men from the West and South