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How did Andrew Jackson expand suffrage?

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He believed every white male should vote so he expanded suffrage

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Why was Andrew Jackson known as the «common man» president?

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He was known as the common man because he could relate to poor people like the farmers

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List different events/ actions/ policies that took place during Jacksonian democracy.

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Indian removal act, nullification crisis, sectionalism, nullification and states rights

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Explain the cause of the nullification crisis?

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Tariffs

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Why did South Carolina believe they could nullify a federal law?

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Argued the constitution gave states the right to block the law

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Explain the purpose of Indian removal act?

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Gave the President the ability to negotiate and buy land from natives. Relocated the native Americans

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List the three parts of the American System?

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High tariffs
Support deauthorizing of the bank of the United States
Fédéral support for internal improvements

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Define the second great awakening?

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Wide spread religious revival

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The abolition movement largely coincided with what major American religious movement?

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Second great awakening

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Explain the temperance?

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Limiting consumption of alcohol due to poverty, abuse , changes of beliefs (second great awakening)

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What was Horace Manns biggest impact?

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Supported education by 1850 northern schools had publicly funded elementary schools

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Explain the impact that Williams Lloyd garrison had on the abolitionist movement?

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Began publishing an abolitionist newspaper in Boston, the liberator

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What was the impact of the Nat turner rebellion?

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After his rebellion southern politicians enacted harsher slave codes

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The Seneca falls convention is considered the beginning of what major movement?

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Women’s rights movement

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List 2 different parts of the Mississippi compromise?

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Slave states / free states

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As our population was moving westward, what was the biggest question facing our nation?

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Will slavery be a thing?

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Define Manifest destiny

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The will of god, that it’s sovereignty, people and culture be extended from coast to coast

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Whose presidency was MOST concerned with fulfilling the country’s manifest destiny?

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James K Polk

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Why did many people head to California in the mid 1800’s?

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Discover of gold in California

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List the advantages of the compromise of 1850 for the north and the south?

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South- no restrictions on slavery in Utah, New Mexico
North- California as a free state

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Explain the purpose behind the Wilmot proviso?

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Attempted to prevent slavery in lands gained from the Mexican war, reopened the heated debate about the expansion of slavery

22
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Define popular sovereignty?

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The act of allowing the people in a given territory/ state to vote on if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state

23
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Explain the Kansas Nebraska act?

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To secure a northern route for the transcontinental railroad

24
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What event is an example of why popular sovereignty failed in the Kansas Nebraska act?

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Bleeding Kansas

25
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List the two parts of the dred Scott (Scott v Sanford) decision?

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1-slaves are not people but rather property
•2-Congress cannot limit the expansion of slavery into the territories (Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional), slavery is protected by the Constitution and only a constitutional amendment could end slavery

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Explain the impact of John brown and his raid at Harpers ferry?

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Southern politicianists enacted stricter slave rules due to John browns attack making slaves look violent

27
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Why was the south upset with the election of 1860?

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The election of 1860 won by Abraham’s Lincoln and the south thought demonstrated the political domination in North

28
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In the early 1800s, many people in the United States migrated westwards because

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Of the availability of farmland

29
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Before the Civil War, the principle of popular sovereignty was proposed as a means of

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Deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state

30
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List the 2 different parts of the Compromise of 1820.

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Missouri enters as a slave state and Maine enters as a free state.

•Slavery is not allowed north of Missouri’s southern border (36 30 line) in the Louisiana Purchase Territory

31
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Which of these is associated with the presidency of Andrew Jackson?

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the creation of the Spoils System

32
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What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

33
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What is an example of the concept of Manifest Destiny in action?

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Adding Texas, land from the Mexican-American War, Oregon Territory, Gadson Purchase

34
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“Jacksonian Democracy” is associated with what political party?

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Democrat

35
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Why was the South upset with the Election of 1860?

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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States without any southern support.

36
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What newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?

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The liberator

37
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What was the first state to secede from the Union?

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South Carolina

38
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Who was the biggest advocate for public education?

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Horace Mann

39
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Define Jacksonian democracy?

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Brand of politics and changes brought about by Andrew Jackson and his followers

40
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Define Suffrage?

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Right to vote

41
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Define sectionalism?

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Placing the interests of your religion ahead of the nation as a whole

42
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Define abolitionism?

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Immediate end to slavery

43
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Define States right?

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Rights held by individual states

44
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Define nullify?

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Refuse to listen to or follow

45
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Define Secede?

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The leave of. The union

46
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Known as a great compromiser for his contributions in the compromise of 1820, 1850 and the American System

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Henry clay

47
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Advocate for womens suffrage. Seneca falls convention

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Elizabeth cady Stanton

48
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Andrew Jackson’s Vice President who resigned to help South Carolina during nullification crisis

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John C Coulhan

49
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What caused the Mexican American war?

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Mexico thought it owned Texas but US thought it was a free state and took it. Mexico got mad and started war.

50
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A former slave who escaped to freedom in the North who published a firsthand account of the evils of slavery. Also founded the newspaper the North Star.

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Fredrick Douglass

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