Period 4: 1800-1848

Question 1

Revolution of 1800

Answer 1

Peaceful transition of power to Democratic Republicans

Question 2

Jefferson First Actions

Answer 2

cut military, federal jobs, tariffs, and the national debt

Question 3

Events during Thomas Jefferson Presidency

Answer 3

1. Louisiana Purchase
2. Marbury Vs. Madison
   3.Barbary Pirates
3. Chesapeake Leopard Affair
4. Embargo Act

Question 4

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 4

Jefferson bought a massive territory from the French for very cheap, but it is unclear if it was constitutional

Question 5

Marbury Vs. Madison

Answer 5

Adams nominated people as judges right before he lost power but they did not become judges because the judiciary act was ruled unconstitutional

Question 6

Barbary Pirates

Answer 6

Barbary pirates requested a tax to protect US ships, Jefferson said no, they attacked, Jefferson paid lesser tax

Question 7

Chesapeake Leopard Affair

Answer 7

A British ship fired on an American ship and killed and impressed the sailors

Question 8

Embargo Act

Answer 8

Stopped US ships from going to foreign ports

Question 9

Issues during James Madison’s Presidency

Answer 9

1. Nonintercourse Act of 1809
2. Macon’s Bill No 2
3. Battle of Tippecanoe
4. War of 1812
5. Treaty of Ghent

Question 10

Nonintercourse Act of 1809

Answer 10

Stopped the US from trading with Britain and France

Question 11

Macon’s Bill No 2

Answer 11

If either Britain or France recognized US neutral rights the US would trade with them

Question 12

Battle of Tippecanoe

Answer 12

Indian effort to prevent US from taking land, Britain provided some aid which made the US mad

Question 13

War of 1812

Answer 13

War between the US and Britain about neutral rights, impressment, and western land

Question 14

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 14

Ended the war of 1812 and basically returned things to normal

Question 15

Events during James Monroe’s presidency

Answer 15

1. Rush-Bagot Agreement
2. Treaty of 1818
3. Florida Purchase Treaty
4. Monroe Doctrine
5. Missouri Compromise

Question 16

Rush-Bagot Agreement

Answer 16

limited how much military control US and Britain could have at Canada border

Question 17

Treaty of 1818

Answer 17

Improved relations between US and Britain by sharing land

Question 18

Florida Purchase Treaty

Answer 18

US purchased Florida from Spain

Question 19

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 19

Stated that what happens in each hemisphere stays in each hemisphere > US in charge

Question 20

Missouri Compromise

Answer 20

Added Missouri as a slave state, Maine as free, established line at 36 30

Question 21

Henry Clay Ideas

Answer 21

1. Missouri Compromise
2. American System

Question 22

American System

Answer 22

1. High tariff
2. Internal improvements
3. 2nd Bank of US

Question 23

Transportation Improvements

Answer 23

Canals, some roads, railways, steam engines, steamboats

Question 24

Manufacturing Improvements

Answer 24

Cotton gin, interchangeable parts, factory system

Question 25

Lowell Factory Girls

Answer 25

Girls worked in factories under Lowell System for bad pay and bad conditions

Question 26

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 26

There were two separate spheres: men in public, women in private

Question 27

People wanted _______ to be able to vote

Answer 27

All white males

Question 28

Issues during Andrew Jackson's presidency

Answer 28

1. Peggy Eaton affair 2. Indian Removal Act 3. Worcester vs Georgia 4. Nullification Crisis 5. Second bank veto/ pet banks 6. Specie Circular

Question 29

Peggy Eaton Affair

Answer 29

Scandal involving Peggy Eaton potentially cheating that divided Jackson's cabinet

Question 30

Indian Removal Act

Answer 30

Required Indians to be moved to allow westward expansion

Question 31

Worcester Vs Georgia

Answer 31

Laws of Georgia did not apply to Cherokee nation

Question 32

Nullification Crisis

Answer 32

South Carolina nullified tariffs of Abominations and Jackson responded that it was treason and persuaded congress to pass the force act

Question 33

Second Bank of the US/Pet banks

Answer 33

Vetoed recharter of US bank and distributed the money into state banks

Question 34

Specie Circular

Answer 34

Required land be bought by gold and silver and caused inflation

Question 35

Issue during Martin Van Buren's Presidency

Answer 35

Panic of 1837 caused by Andrew Jackson's financial decisions

Question 36

Log cabin and Hard cider campaign

Answer 36

William Henry Harrison won election because of his frontier man campaign, then died. John Tyler became president

Question 37

Transcendentalists

Answer 37

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

Question 38

Second great Awakening

Answer 38

Religious fervor that spread because of extended democracy > very emotional and made people think they could save themselves

Question 39

Temperance Movement

Answer 39

People drank too much and limited alcohol intake

Question 40

Public Asylums

Answer 40

Prisons were not the best way for reform and mental hospitals were created

Question 41

Education improvements

Answer 41

Horace Mann argued that schools needed to be improved

Question 42

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 42

Led by Lizzie Stanton and Lucretia Mott and called for women's rights

Question 43

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 43

The Liberator, called for abolishment of slavery

Question 44

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Answer 44

Led slaves to kill white people in revolt

Question 45

Abolitionists

Answer 45

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth