Expansion And Slavery

Question 0

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 0

Jan 1815

Question 1

Andrew Jackson Presidency

Answer 1

1829-1837

Question 2

Adding of 4 new states - Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois

Answer 2

1816-1820 - cotton boom with end of napoleonic wars.

Southern fortunes on production, northern fortunes on shipping, English fortunes on manufacturing

Question 3

Five Civilized Tribes

Answer 3

Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee(Creek), Chickasaw, Seminole

Question 4

Indian Removal Act

Answer 4

1830

Question 5

Missouri Compromise

Answer 5

March 1820-50 - Missouri admitted as a slave state, Maine admitted as free. No more slavery north of 36*30’ (southern border of Missouri) but opened the west to slavery instead.

Question 6

Northwest Ordinance

Answer 6

1789

Question 7

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 7

1823

Question 8

6 states universal male suffrage

Answer 8

1821

Question 9

All 24 states universal male suffrage

Answer 9

1828

Question 10

First Bank of the United States

Answer 10

1791-1811 - Founded by Alexander Hamilton - “if federal government. Has the power to tax, it has the power to found a bank to put the revenue in it.

Question 11

Second BUS

Answer 11

1817 Philadelphia

Question 12

Panic of 1819

Answer 12

First US depression - gold and silver short (LA independence movements), smaller European market for US goods, overproduction of cotton and price drops.

Unemployment (75% in Philadelphia)
Foreclosure (tent cities)
Bankruptcy

“The bank was saved and the people were ruined” - William Gouge, economist

Question 13

McCulloch vs. Maryland

Answer 13

1819 - US Supreme Court said the Constitution implied the power to create a federal bank through the “necessary and proper” clause.

Question 14

Dismantling the BUS by Jackson

Answer 14

1836

Question 15

Spoils system

Answer 15

A political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends and relatives as a reward for working toward victory and as an incentive to keep working for the party. Began with Jackson who fired 10% of the government staff to fulfill his electoral promises.

Question 16

“Slavery a positive good” Calhoun (date)

Answer 16

1837

Question 17

Britain outlaws slave trade

Answer 17

1807

Question 18

4 million slaves in the US

Answer 18

1860

Question 19

Slave trade abolition

Answer 19

1808

Question 20

How many southerners owned slaves?

Answer 20

Less than 25%

Question 21

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 21

1850 - anyone could be arrested and sent south

Question 22

Slavery abolished in Cuba

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1886

Question 23

Golden law that ended slavery in Brazil

Answer 23

1888

Question 24

Marx of the Master Class

Answer 24

John C. Calhoun according to Richard Hofstadter Lords of the lash vs lords of the loom

Question 25

Force Bill

Answer 25

1833 - authorized the president to use whatever force he deemed necessary to enforce federal tariffs. See Nullification crisis.

Question 26

Nullification Crisis

Answer 26

Crisis under president Andrew Jackson. South Carolina declared the Tariff of 1828 and 1832 null and void within its borders - belief that those tariffs favored the North over the south. Sectionalism

Question 27

Black codes

Answer 27

Restrictions of where blacks can live and work.

Question 28

Voter participation in the US 1824-28

Answer 28

Doubled from 27% to 57%

Question 29

War of 1812 inflation

Answer 29

Federal gov issued paper money with no regard for gold and silver backing.

Question 30

Nicholas Biddle

Answer 30

Director of the second BUS - insisted that branches keep 50% of value of loans on reserve.

Question 31

Dismantlement of Bank of United States

Answer 31

Jackson 1836

Question 32

On Jacksons politics quote

Answer 32

The spirit of Jacksonianism is Jacobinism

Question 33

Economics of slavery

Answer 33

1600: a young male slave in Jamaica cost 20£ One year work - 600 lbs of sugar = £20 After that profit

Question 34

Southerners owning slaves percentage

Answer 34

less than 25%

Question 35

Uncle Toms cabin

Answer 35

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe - children's book

Question 36

Brazil and slavery

Answer 36

40% of the enslaved people's in the Americas

Question 37

Margo and Steckel

Answer 37

Historians of nutrition who assembled data on how slaves were fed in comparison to industrial workers --> slaves generally taller than average European.