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Sectionalism
Growth Division Reform VUS.d,e,f
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the period from 1824 to 1850 called? | Age of the Common Man |
| Why did more Americans participate in politics during the Jacksonian Era? | More people could vote, sectional interests and western expansion |
| What does the term suffrage mean? | the right to vote |
| What two voting requirements were eliminated during the Age of Jackson? | Religious (belong to a church in order to vote) and Property (owning a certain amount of property to vote) |
| What were new campaign techniques during the Age of Jackson | Party newspapers, campaign songs, speeches raillies, parades |
| What political party disappeared as nationalism soared in the 1820s? | Federalists |
| What 4 things does the Monroe Doctrine state? | 1) western hemisphere is off limits to new colonization, 2) pre-existing colonies must be republics, 3) The United States will uphold prevention of colonization and 4) The US will stay out of European affairs |
| What 2 political parties were created when the Democratic-Republican party split? | Democrats and Whigs |
| What nativist third party started in the 1850s? | Know-Nothings |
| What is nativism? | Dissent towards immigration (specifically Catholics and Germans by the Know-Nothing Party) |
| How did Andrew Jackson reward his supporters? | Spoils System |
| What is the spoils system? | rewarding voters with government jobs |
| What did President Jackson do to the Bank of the United States? | vetoed the recharter bill and redistributed all of the money to state banks |
| What is a tariff? | a tax on imports |
| What is nullification? | voiding a law |
| How did the South Carolina Nullification Crisis threaten the federal government? | If states were allowed to nullify national laws, the government would be unable to enforce laws across the nation |
| How did President Jackson respond to the South Carolina Nullification Crisis? | Threatened to send the military into South Carolina to enforce the tariffs until Congress intervened and lowered tariff rates |
| What was the Indian Removal Act? | Forced removal of Native Americans to reservations in Oklahoma |
| What was the forced journey of the Cherokee natives from Georgia to Oklahoma called? | Trail of Tears |
| What was the main goal of the women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York? | women's suffrage (right to vote) |
| Who were the two leaders of the women's suffrage movement at the Seneca Falls Convention? | Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Who purchased the Louisiana Territory and what impact did it have on the US? | Thomas Jefferson and it doubled the size of the United States |
| Who was sent to explore the Louisiana Territory? | Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea |
| Why did the American settlers move westward into the Midwest, Southwest and Teas? | seeking economic opportunity, land ownership |
| What helped the growth of the industrial economy and supported westward movement by setlers? | railroads and canals |
| What canal was constructed to link Buffalo New York to Albany New York for industrial growth? | Erie Canal |
| What invention led to the spread of slavery as King Cotton began an agricultural revolution in the South? | Eli Whitne'y's cotton gin |
| What did migration into Texas eventually lead to? | Texan revolt against Mexican rule including the battle at the Alamo that forced Texans to band together to fight for independence |
| Why did America go to war with Mexico? | a border dispute with Mexico over the Southern border of the United States |
| What land was acquired in the American victory in the Mexican War? | The Mexican Cession (including territories of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico) |
| What is Manifest Destiny? | The belief that God wants America to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean spreading democracy |
| How did the United States obtain the Florida Territory? | Adams-Onis Treaty negotiated the sale of Florida from Spain to the United States |
| What type of economy did the Northern states have? | industrial economy based on manufacturing |
| What type of economy did the Southern states have? | agricultural economy based on slave-labor run cotton plantations |
| Which region of the United States supported high protective tariffs and why? | North because it protected manufacturers from foreign competition |
| What abolitionist newspaper was published by William Lloyd Garrision? | The Liberator |
| Who led the most successful slave rebellion in American History? | Nat Turner |
| What issue dominated admission of new states to the Union? | slavery |
| What was the Missouri Compromise? | compromise creating an east-west line along the 36-30 parallel in the Louisiana Purchase prohibiting slavery above the line but allowing it below it |
| What is the Compromise of 1850? | Compromise allowing California to be a free state and popular sovereignty to determine remaining western territories and a fugitive slave act to be passed |
| What is the Kansas Nebraska Act? | Overturned the Missouri Compromise line by allowing slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty in the Kansas territory |
| What happened as a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act? | a territorial civil war referred to as Bleeding Kansas and the birth of the Republican Party in opposition to the spread of slavery |
| What is the Fugitive Slave Act? | required slaves who had escaped to free states to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South |
| What territory was purchased from Mexico in order for a potential transcontinental railroad line to be built? | Gadsden Purchase |
| What fictional novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and exposed the evils of slavery? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Whose presidency was nicknamed The Era of Good Feelings? | James Monroe |
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