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US History
Test Prep 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Four presidential candidates Jackson won popular vote, but John Quincy Adams won presidency | "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824 |
| higher import duties for good bought by southerners leading up to the Civil War | "Tariff of Abominations" |
| Jackson's method of replacing civil servant jobs with his supporters | Spoils System |
| tariff at the expense of the Southern states Jackson asked Congress to give him the authority to collect tariffs by force | Tariff of 1832 |
| Mexico owned Mexico offered land to Americans Mexico's power began to erode | Texas before the Alamo |
| A small Texas army defended this place against a much larger Mexican army. | Battle of the Alamo |
| Indian Removal Act Native Americans forced to give up lands and travel to Oklahoma hunger, disease, exhaustion killed more than 4,000 | Trail of Tears |
| Purchased slaves and transported them to free African states | Abolitionism |
| Many opportunities for work immigration included Germans and Irish Catholics Urbanization outgrew public services (clean water) riots and street crime | Population Growth and Change, early 1800 |
| elimination of the property qualification for voting | Expansion of Electorate |
| During war of 1812, British burned the White House because America burned Toronto Star-Spangled Banner | Washington Burned |
| increased American nationalism country turned from agrarian roots to industrialization cheaper British goods, leads to tariffs | After the War of 1812 |
| US would not allow foreign powers to establish new colonies in the western hemisphere developed by President James Monroe | Monroe Doctrine |
| provided boundary between US and Canada at 49th parallel | convention of 1818 |
| Marshall Court decision no state can control federal government Maryland tried to tax the US Bank | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| defined US and Mexico border US ceded claim to Texas, Spain kept California | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| boom in cotton market more states producing cotton, invention of cotton gin helped | King Cotton |
| new roads, canals, and railroads Fulton invented steamboat | Transportation Revolution |
| women hired to work in factories | The Lowell System |
| laws that limited slave rights slave owners could use harsh physical punishments to control slaves without court intervention slaves could not own weapons, get an education, meet with others without permission, or testify against whites | Slave Codes |
| Senate evenly divided between slave and free states required all new states joining be balanced - a slave state could only join if a non slave state also joined | Missouri Compromise |
| advocated centralized power, constitutional ratification | Federalists |
| explored starting from St. Louis and going to the Rockies Sacajawea helped guide them | Lewis and Clark Expedition |
| group that believed in commercial and industrial development encouraged banks and corporations | Whig Party |
| Any power not assigned to the federal government by the Constitution, is a power the states have | 10th Amendment |
| term for Northerners who came to the South carried clothes in cloth bags | Carpetbaggers |
| term for Southerns working for or supporting the federal government during Reconstruction | Scalawags |
| drafted in 1787, ratified in 1788 created stronger federal government | The Constitution of the United States |
| US territory doubled by this purchase from France for $15 million | Louisiana Purchase |
| war over land in Ohio region between Native Americans and France | French and Indian War |
| owned large farms and slaves | Planters |
| worked land independently to produce their own food | Yeomen |
| lived in squalor as bad as that of the slaves | Poor Whites |
| owned as property and worked the land | Slaves |
| How many whites in the South did not own slaves? | 3/4 |
| group favored states' rights | Democratic-Republicans |
| group that was against immigrants met in secret | Know-Nothings |
| not slaves, free but still many prejudicial laws | African Americans in the North, 1850 |
| created Supreme Court and Attorney General | Judiciary Act of 1789 |
| against adoption of Constitution, believed in states' rights | Anti-Federalists |
| considered property lived in "cult of domesticity" | Women in the Early 1800s |
| plantation system, few immigrants | The South, 1850 |
| wages increasing, large numbers of immigrants, urbanization | The North, 1850 |
| group believed in emancipating all salves believed Congress should control Reconstruction, not the President | Radical Republicans |
| poor workers, convicted criminals, and debtors received passage and feeds in return for labor servants entered into contracts voluntarily and kept some legal rights little control of conditions of living/working difficult or impossible to pay off debt | Indentured Servitude |
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