Defining America: 1820s-1850s

Question 1

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 1

Jackson invades Florida and takes it from Spain

Question 2

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 2

a warning to European powers to end colonization in the New World

Question 3

1824 Election

Answer 3

4 candidates from the Democratic-Republican Party

Question 4

Candidates of the 1824 election

Answer 4

-Andrew Jackson
-John Quincy Adams
-Henry Clay
-William Crawford

Question 5

Who won 1824 election?

Answer 5

Jackson won the popular vote BUT Adams won the electoral college

Question 6

who founded the Democratic party

Answer 6

Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Burren

Question 7

Who won 1828 elections?

Answer 7

Jackson

Question 8

Spoils System

Answer 8

while Jackson was president, government offices would be rewarded to loyal party members and would change hands based on the party in charge

Question 9

John Marshal

Answer 9

in charge of supreme court at the time of Jackson’s presidency (he does not like Jackson)

Question 10

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 10

states cannot tax federal institutions; the constitution gave federal government “implied power”

Question 11

Cohens v. Virginia

Answer 11

the court can review a state court’s decision involving any of the powers of the federal government

Question 12

Gibbons v. Ogden

Answer 12

establishes that the federal government had broad control of interstate commerce

Question 13

Andrew Jackson hates Native Americans. What does he do as a result?

Answer 13

He signs an act which forces Native Americans in the south to move west

Question 14

Cherokee Nation v. Gerogia

Answer 14

established that the Cherokee could sue in federal court

Question 15

Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 15

laws of Georgia had no force within Cherokee territory- Cherokee did not have to move west

Question 16

What does Jackson do as a result of Cherokee Nation v. Georgia AND Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 16

he allows the state of Georgia to being forcing the Cherokee West and leads to the Trail of Tears

Question 17

Tariffs

Answer 17

taxes on goods imported to the US. (this benefited the everyone but the South)

Question 18

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 18

higher tariff passed (affected the South because they love their cotton)

Question 19

John C. Calhoun author of “the South Carolina Exposition” writes…

Answer 19

states can ignore laws they disagree with

Question 20

result of the Nullification Crisis of 1832

Answer 20

Sourth Carolina nearly secedes from the Union over tariff

Question 21

Compromise Tariff

Answer 21

saves South Carolina from secedes

Question 22

does Jackson like the Bank of the US?

Answer 22

no

Question 23

Bank War

Answer 23

Congress tries to pass a new charter for the Bank but is vetoed by Jackson

Question 24

Result of Bank War

Answer 24

-Jackson withdraws federal funds from the BUS
-Jackson puts federal in “pet banks”
-no central bank means no organized economics

Question 25

Panic 1837

Answer 25

global economic disaster, hundreds of banks fall

Question 26

Whig Political Party

Answer 26

formed around opposition to Andrew Jackson

Question 27

Weakness of Whig Party

Answer 27

found after John Tyler replaces William Harrison, no political positions in the party

Question 28

Industrial Resolution

Answer 28

-population doubles from immigration
-new jobs
-people move west

Question 29

Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. What is the result of this?

Answer 29

-slavery is more profitable
-birth of market economy in America

Question 30

Second Grand Awakening

Answer 30

groups of religious groups form/become popular with a question of why is society changing

Question 31

Transcendentalists

Answer 31

a group of hippie writers against the religious groups and why society is changing

Question 32

Temperance Movemnet

Answer 32

banning alcohol in the US

Question 33

Reforms in America after the Industrial Revolution

Answer 33

-banning alcohol
-public asylums
-public education
-women’s rights
-abolitionists

Question 34

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 34

forcing women’s only role is to make kids and take care of the house while the husband does all the work

Question 35

Seneca Falls Conventions

Answer 35

first feminist political convention

Question 36

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 36

an early abolitionist leader who spread his ideas through newspaper writings

Question 37

New England Region

Answer 37

economically driven by the industrial revoultion

Question 38

South

Answer 38

cotton plantations and slavery dominate the economy and political system, cities are hubs of wealth and international trade

Question 39

Midwest

Answer 39

major farming that provided great success for the nation

Question 40

US Governments opinion on slavery

Answer 40

North wants to get rid of it but they cant because the South want to keep it