chapter 8-Spirit of Reform Flashcards

1
Q

In politics, when the party leaders choose candidates they hold a ____ in secret.

A

Party caucus

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2
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In politics, when there are large open meetings to choose candidates, they hold a _____.

A

Party Convention

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3
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Andrew Jackson _____ political participation by opening politics for the common man.

A

increased political participation

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4
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Andrew Jackson was staunchly against the _____ and took federal deposit to state banks.

A

2nd Bank of the United States

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5
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Andrew Jackson’s bank policies will lead to an economic collapse called _____.

A

The Panic of 1837

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6
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Andrew Jackson chooses party loyalists for government jobs in what is termed ____.

A

The Spoils System

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7
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Andrew Jackson’s Indian policy included moving many Indian tribes to ____ during the _____.

A

Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears

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8
Q

The Gag Rule in Congress was instituted to stop the debates centering on ______.

A

Abolition of slavery

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9
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When South Carolina threatens to secede, Andrew Jackson used the ____ to stop them.

A

Force Bill

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10
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The Tariff of Abominations caused South Carolina to ____ the law and starts a crisis over states rights.

A

Nullify

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11
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Who was the leader of the South Carolina Nullifiers?

A

John C. Calhoun

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12
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The ____ immigrants were almost always poor, uneducated, and catholic during the early 1800s.

A

Irish immigrants

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13
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The ____ immigrants were usually protestant, educated, and with some money to start their lives over again in America during the early 1800s.

A

German immigrants

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14
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The anti-immigrant feelings led to the ____ movement in America in the mid-1800s.

A

nativism

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15
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The Anti-immigrant political movement of the mid-1800s was called the _____ party.

A

American Party

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16
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This was a religious revival of the early 1800s.

A

Second Great Awakening

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17
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According to the beliefs of the Second Great Awakening, who was to fix societal problems in the early 1800s.

A

Christians

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18
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Who was one preacher of the Second Great Awakening?

A

Charles Finney

19
Q

This religious movement was led by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

A

Mormonism

20
Q

Lyman Beecher believed that _____ should help to build a better society.

A

Christian religion

21
Q

A feeling of spiritualism, individualism, and ebracing of nature was center in this literary movement in the mid-1800s.

A

Romanticism

22
Q

Who was an important Romanticist writer.

A

Emily Dickinson

23
Q

List two utopian societies

A

Shakers

Millerites

24
Q

The beauty of the universe and an inner light was the center of the ____ literaty movement

A

Transcendentalism

25
Q

Who was one of the leading Transcendentalist?

A

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26
Q

What was the mass media called of the mid-1800s that spread news to the common people?

A

Penny Press

27
Q

List five reform movements of the mid-1800s.

A
Prisons
Education
Women's rights
Temperance
Slavery
28
Q

To get rid of alcohol from society was called ____ in the mid-1800s.

A

Temperance

29
Q

Where was the center of the Women’s rights movement in the mid-1800s?

A

Seneca Falls, NY

30
Q

List three women predominant in the Women’s conference at Seneca Fall, NY

A

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Mary Lyon

31
Q

List two leading advocates of better public education.

A

Wiley

Horace Mann

32
Q

What was the greatest evil dark spot on society in the mid-1800s.

A

slavery

33
Q

To get of slavery, the ____ movement was created.

A

abolitionist movement

34
Q

To get of slavery slowly over time is called ______.

A

Gradual abolition

35
Q

Who was the founder of the New England Anti-Slavery Society?

A

William Lloyd Garrison

36
Q

The Back to Africa movement established many Colonization societies that encouraged freed slaves to move to what would become the country of ____ in West Africa>

A

Liberia

37
Q

What was William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper called?

A

The Liberator

38
Q

List five Abolitionists

A
Lyman Beecher
Frederick Douglass
Elijah Lovejoy
Sojourner Truth
David Walker
39
Q

The first Abolitionists were primarily ____

A

New England preachers

40
Q

The immediate freedom for slaves is called ___

A

Emancipation

41
Q

What slave rebellion frightened many whites throughout the southern states in the 1830s?

A

Nat Turner’s rebellion

42
Q

Who had a printing press destroyed and life threatened in Illinois because he printed abolitionist ideas?

A

Elijah Lovejoy

43
Q

Who was a leading African American abolitionist and run away slave?

A

Frederick Douglass