History Final Notes Flashcards
(40 cards)
Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to?
make the United States a major commercial and military power
What was the main source of the political divisions that surfaced in 1790 and 1791?
the rights of women
What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?
He was executed, along with numerous aristocrats
The candidates in the 1796 election were Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr verses?
John Adams and Thomas Pinckney
Which political party viewed society as a fixed hierarchy, where only wealthy men and the “well-born” should hold political office?
Federalist
What brought an end to Washington’s presidency in 1796?
his wish that the office not become a a lifelong position
Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the end of slavery?
Benjamin Franklin
Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?
canals and steamboats
The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing parts in accessing trade with the Northwest?
New York
What was the most important export from the United States by the mid-nineteenth century?
cotton
Cincinnati was known as what in the early nineteenth century?
Porkopolis
What was an important factor in Chicago’s growth from 1830 to 1860?
Railroads connected to Chicago to numerous eastern marketplaces
Which geographic area was the first to adopt an industrial system of manufactoring?
states in the “cotton kingdom”
Andrew Jackson’s inauguration was?
a loud and rowdy event
Which of the following helped to increase the visibility and power to the Catholic Church in America in the mid-nineteenth century?
the dramatic increase in the number of Irish-Catholic immigrants
According to Noah Webster’s American Dictionary, what term had become synonymous in American society with the right to vote?
“citizen”
What name is given to the sharp increase in printing and the availability of printed material in the 1830’s?
Information Revolution
Which was a component of the Monroe Doctrine?
The United States vowed to oppose efforts by European powers to establish any new colonies in the Americas.
During the Age of Jackson, the practice of politics was characterized by what?
a mass spectacle that served as a kind of public entertainment
Awarding political office based on party loyalty is called?
the spoils system
In the nineteenth century, which product was the words’s major crop produced by slave labor?
cotton
Which state was referred to the Tariff in 1828 as an “abomination”?
South Carolina
Which two categories delineate the key differences among southern states in the decades before the Civil War?
upper and lower south
Which was the only significantly large city in the cotton kingdom in 1860?
New Orleans
