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US Hist exam III
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| As president, Andrew Jackson believed the power of the federal government | Should be reduced, and yet was supreme over individual states |
| In the 1820s, John C. Calhoun proposed his doctrine of nullification | As an alternative to possible secession |
| In 1830, what political figure said, “Our Federal Union—It must be preserved”? | Andrew Jackson |
| Senator Robert Hayne represented the state of | South Carolina |
| In an attempt to end the nullification crisis, President Andrew Jackson in 1833 | Authorized the use of military force to see the acts of Congress were obeyed |
| In 1832, Henry Clay sought to use the debate over the Bank of the United States primarily to | Boost his presidential candidacy |
| The “Trail of Tears” traveled by the Cherokees led them to the area that later became | Oklahoma |
| Martin Van Buren won the presidency in 1836 because | The political opposition offered multiple candidates |
| William Henry Harrison | Had been a soldier and Indian fighter, and was a descendant of the Virginia |
| In 1830, President Andrew Jackson vetoed a federal subsidy to the proposed Maysville Road, because | The road was not a part of any system of interstate commerce |
| In 1840, efforts to expand voting rights in Rhode Island resulted in | Two governments claiming control of the state |
| According Andrew Jackson’s theory of democracy | All white male citizens should be treated equally |
| President Jackson’s attack on federal officeholders led to the introduction of what one of his allies called the “_______” | Spoil System |
| Thomas Dorr and his followers formed a(n) “_____” | People’s Party |
| John C. Calhoun championed a states’ rights theory called _________ | Nullification |
| What alternatives to Indian removal existed, and why were they not taken? | Leave in peace with shared land |
| Between 1820 and 1840, the population of the United States | Rapidly grew, in part due to improved public health |
| Prior to 1860, hostility among native-born Americans toward immigrants was spurred, in part, by | Fears of political radicalism |
| In the 1830s, limited liability laws were developed in the United States, which | Meant stockholders could not be charged with losses greater than their investment |
| By 1860, the energy for industrialization in the United States increasingly came from | Coal |
| When the Lowell factory system began, | Workers were fairly well paid and lived in supervised dormitories |
| The Massachusetts court case of Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) declared that | Labor unions were lawful organizations |
| In the 1840s, John Deere introduced significant improvements to the | Plow |
| Prior to 1860, the fastest-growing segment in American society was the | Middle class |
| In 1860, the percentage of the population in free states living in towns or cities was | 26 percent |
| Between 1840 and 1860, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from | Ireland and Germany |
| Which city did NOT owe its growth to the Great Lakes? | Cincinnati |
| The Erie Canal was | A tremendous financial success |
| The primary assistance from the federal government to railroad companies came in the form of ______ | public land grants |
| Samuel Morse invented the ________, which burst into American life in 1844 | Telegraph |
| The first railroad company actually to begin operations was the ____________ | Baltimore and Ohio |
| How did the rise of the factory system change the American family? | Many families moved from farming lands to working in factories and this changed the traditional family control. |
| The historian who wrote “The South [prior to the Civil War] grew, but did not develop” meant that | The south had failed to move from an agrarian to an industrial economy |
| tobacco cultivation in the antebellum south | Was gradually moving westward |
| In the Late 1850s, many of the great landholders of the lower South were | Still first-generation settlers |
| In the 1850s, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women | Were like children |
| Most white southerners owned | No slaves |
| When emancipation came after the Civil War, it was often the ________ who were the first to leave the plantation of their former owners | House servants |
| One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by | Nat turner |
| Regarding religion, American slaves | Often incorporated African features into their Christianity |
| The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was | Paternalism |
| In the American slave family, | Extended kinship networks were strong and important |
| Short-staple cotton | Helped to keep the south a predominantly agricultural region |
| Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they | Were expected to be more subordinate to men |
| the most important new product in the South during the mid-nineteenth century was __________ cotton | Short-staple |
| the “peculiar institution” was _____________ | Slavery |
| the typical white southerners who were not great planters or slaveowners were known as “________” | Plain folk |
| In the first half of the nineteenth century, why did cotton become the major economic crop of the American South? | The tobacco market became very unstable and so cotton became more popular. |
| Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a | desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change |
| Walt Whitman | celebrated the liberation of the individual |
| In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature | was that American artists had little to offer Europe |
| One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was | Oneida |
| Mormonism | believed in human perfectibility |
| The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to | spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience |
| Frederick Douglass | spent years lecturing in England against slavery |
| The Hudson River School of painters emphasized in their work the importance of | natural beauty |
| The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to | Liberia |
| According to the nineteenth-century "science of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull | character and intelligence |
| The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to | evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape |
| One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was | Elijah Lovejoy |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel ___________, which first appeared as a serial in an antislavery weekly | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| The first great school of American painters in the first half of the nineteenth century was known as ____________ School | Hudson River |
| Walt Whitman's first book of poems was titled __________ | Leaves of Grass |
| How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition? | His speeches inspired some but made most people mad |
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