Period 4

Question 1

American system

Answer 1

Proposed by Clay, a set of proposals including protective tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements

Question 2

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 2

Suggested that women would be responsible for raising their children to be virtuous citizens of the new American republic

Question 3

Transcendentalism

Answer 3

A philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that emphasized living a simple life and celebrating nature and imagination

Question 4

Utopian communities

Answer 4

A number of small self sufficient communities developed in the 1800s in hopes of achieving perfection

Question 5

The second great awakening

Answer 5

Second wave of religious revival between 1800-1830 (middle class women helped)

Question 6

Jacksonian Democracy

Answer 6

A set of political beliefs including respect for the common man, expansion of white male suffrage, and apposition to privileged Eastern elites

Question 7

Nullification

Answer 7

A legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate any federal law they deem unconstitutional, first introduced in 1798

Question 8

Judicial review

Answer 8

The Supreme Court can strike down an act of Congress by declaring it unconstitutional