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american promise 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Market Revolution? | Expanded economy/market boost. Changes in transportation, banking, and opportunities for working women. Nation's money supply enlarged. New economic behavior |
| What new ways of travel lowered the price of travel? | Steamboats, canals and finally railroads. Steamboats being the most popular. |
| Who and when were the two sisters who preached about the evils of slavery? | Grimke sisters in 1837. Major impact on the roles of women in both politics and social reform. |
| What did the introduction of new ways of transportation offer? | Transport goods, young and old people alike to new employment, also the spread of political information throughout the country. |
| Regulations on steamboats? | Safety because there were too many accidents resulting in thousands of deaths. Also environment, steamboats were the first source of air pollution. |
| Erie canal's significance? | Linked the port of NY with the Great Lakes region making NY the premier commercial city. |
| Railroads, canals and steamboats contribution? | Advances in transportation unified the country culturally and economically [manufacture] |
| Lowell Mills significance? | employed more than 5k women and was a center of sll cloth production |
| How did banks stimulate the production of the economy? | Making loans to merchants and manufacturers, and by enlarging the money supply |
| What is specie payment? | transaction of a note traded in at the bank for hard money such as gold/silver |
| What was the revolution in commercial law? | Politicians movement to enhance the prospect of private investment |
| Hoping to create regional markets for goods, Pennsylvania and New York in the 1810s commenced major state–sponsored | canal enterprises |
| What happened as a consequence of states’ rewriting their laws of incorporation beginning in 1811? | The number of corporations skyrocketed |
| What did incorporations do? | Protected individual investors from being held liable for corporate debts |
| What did Jackson supports believe about government granted privileges? | Ending them was the only way to maximize liberty and economic opportunity |
| Why did some Americans blame the second Bank of the United States for the panic of 1819? | It had failed to control state banks. |
| The 1828 election inaugurated what change in American politics? | A less formal campaigning style |
| In the 1830s, issues were defined, and political personalities publicized, by | partisan newspapers |
| What was the panic of 1819? | Large scale economic downturn. Rapid consumer demand stimulated price increase resulting in inflation. |
| What brought America back on top after the panic? | Increase in productivity, consumer demands for good and international trade |
| Jackson's political tactics? | Championed ordinary citazens against the elite, started the argument democracy or aristocracy. Politicians needed to have stuff in common with the voters. |
| Why was the presidential election of 1828 different? | First election to which popular vote determined the outcome. |
| Jackson supporters were - Adams supporters were - | Jackson - Democrat. Adams - Whigs |
| What did voters use to influence their choice between jackson and adams? | The election of 1828 was the first time where scandels and character questions reigned supreme in influence. |
| Between 1830 and 1832 thousands of northern white women sent petitions to Washington to protest | the Indian Removal Act. |
| In 1827 the Cherokee tribe of Georgia wrote a constitution modeled on what document? | The U.S. Constitution |
| What did the Supreme Court rule in the 1832 case of Worcester v. Georgia? | The Cherokee were a separate nation within Georgia. |
| In the Jacksonian era, ideas about gender relations revolved around the notion that husbands and wives | had separate spheres of activity |
| Jackson favored a ___ government | Jeffersonian limited federal gov. anything that benefited wealthy investors |
| Unlike Jefferson, jackson... | used his veto power against congress. He used it 12 times, more than the previous presidents combined |
| Jackson's goal was to open opportunities for all men by | open land for white settlement thereby forcing the relocation of native americans |
| What did proslavery congressmen hope to suppress with their 1836 “gag rule”? | Antislavery petitions in Congress |
| How did Andrew Jackson characterize Indians? | Subjects of the United States |
| What undermined Martin Van Buren’s chance for a second term as president? | His inability to end the economic depression |
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