12-15 Flashcards
How was Andrew Jackson’s election in 1828 seen by many historians to represent?
The rise of individualism and popular democracy in America.
What is a true statement concerning the whig party
It attracted prominent Senate leaders such as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster who opposed Pres. Andrew Jackson. They favored humanitarian reforms. They encouraged internal improvements. They ran several candidates for president and lost in 1836 but won the presidency in 1840
What is true concerning the Mormon
This new religion was based in America and traces its roots to the burned over District in New York. Joseph Smith, the founder, was murdered by a mob in Illinois in 1844. Brigham young became the most prominent leader
What did Charles Grandison Finney advocate as a revivalist preacher?
Opposition to slavery, a perfect Christian kingdom on earth,opposition to alcohol, public prayer by women
Who are the three most prominent figures in Congress in the early to mid-1800s?
Henry Clay, John C Calhoun, Daniel Webster
What is associated with Andrew Jackson?
Spoil system, kitchen cabinet, Peggy eaton affair, plantation mansion on the Hermitage in Nashville Tennessee
How did John Marshall interpret the Constitution?
Loose construction
What did Horace Mann do?
He expanded curriculum and got higher pays for teachers
What did Noah Webster do?
Helped standardize the American language
What did Mary Lyon do
Founded Mt. Holyoke seminary
What did William McGuffey? Do
Grade school reader
Who is the United States most successful diplomat in the era of good feelings?
Either John Quincy Adams or Henry Clay
How were the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford convention, and the South Carolina exposition and protest similar?
They all involved state rights.
How can the woman’s movement in the antebellum period Characterized?
Conventions in the north in the Midwest but not in the south
Who said “ I have come to this country to introduce an entire new state of society; to change from ignorant, selfish system to enlighten social system which showed gradually unite all interest into one and remove all causes for a contest between individuals”?
Robert owen
What were the members of the Hudson River school best known for?
Landscapes
Why was the era of good feelings troubled?
Issues between Northern and Southern states. Economic issues
In McCulloch versus Maryland, Collins versus Virginia, and Gibbons versus Ogden’s, chief justice Marshall’s ruling limited what?
State rights
What did Andrew Jackson represent?
Small slaveholders small farmers frontiersman the west and the common man
What is true concerning Henry Clay?
Long time congressmen and three-time presidential loser, Secretary of State after the infamous corrupt bargain, called the great compromiser for bringing together northern industries and Southern planters, and owns a Lexington Kentucky plantation known as Ashland
What did the development of early 19 century concept of separate spheres of the sexes encourage?
The idea that women were not equal to men.
What happened during the life of Susan B Anthony?
She grew up in a strict quacker family, was influenced by Jacksonian democracy, was discouraged from learning division, was active in the anti-slavery movement.
What did Andrew Jackson support?
Indian removal, removal of federal deposits from the bank of United States, annexation of a new territory, the use of the presidential veto power
What did Thomas Jefferson include on his epitaph for his grave at Monticello
Author of the Declaration of Independence, author of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, father the University of Virginia
What happened during the era of good feeling?
The panic of 1819, Missouri compromise, Monroe doctrine, one party rule
What was invented between 1830s and 1840s?
Sewing machine, telegraph, steel plow, and mower – reaper
Who invented the sewing machine?
Elias Howe
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel morse
Who invented the steel plow
John Deere
Who invented the mower – repair?
Cyrus McCormick
What document is this quote from? “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men and women are created equal quote
Declaration of sentiments
From which country where the immigrants that created the Amish community in Pennsylvania
German countries
What did Clay’s American system call for?
Tariffs, internal improvements, greater reliance on the domestic financial resources, increased trade among the sections of the nation
In what political parties are most modern-day Mormons?
Conservative Republicans
What love was an example of an early push for prohibition?
Maine law(Neal Dow)
What did a compromise tariff by Henry Clay end?
The nullification crisis
What poem did Walt Whitman wright
Leaves of grass
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
The first female graduate of medical school
Who is Lucy Stone?
The most famous women to retain her name after marriage during this time.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
One of the leading advocates for suffrage
Who was Sarah Grimke?
anti-slavery arguer
Who was Amelia bloomer?
A rebellious woman who decided to wear short skirts around town
What is true of the second great awakening?
encouraged a variety of humanitarioan reforms
strengthened democratic denominations like Methodists and baptists
was a reaction against growing liberalism in religion
It resulted in the conversion of countless souls
What did the court rule in the case of Commonwealth vs. Hunt?
Labor unions were not illegal
What were some results of the Missouri Comprimise?
Slaves were forbidden north of 36, 30 line,
Missouri was an unrestricted slave state
Who wrote “Civil Disobedience” and who did it effect in the future?
Henry David Thoreau
It affected Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the person named “ The Poet Laureate of Democracy”, whose emotional and explicit writings expressed adeep love of the masses and enthusiasmfor an expanding America?
Walt Whitman
What is this picture?
Missouri Comprimise
Who was the US most succesful dipl
