1824-1848: Jacksonian America

Question 1

John Quincy Adams won more electoral votes but lost the popular vote to Andrew Jackson; Henry Clay threw his supporters behind Adams in exchange for becoming Secretary of State; “corrupt bargain”

Answer 1

Election of 1824

Question 2

passed by Congress in 1828, designed to protect industry in the Northern United States; the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England’s industrialists.

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“Tariff of Abominations”

Question 3

returned the country to a two-party system; rematch of John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson; expansion of white male suffrage; a turning point in democratic elections in the U.S.

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1828 Election

Question 4

the practice of a winning political party giving public office positions to its supporters; started by Andrew Jackson, not commonplace.

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spoils system

Question 5

a term used by political opponents of U.S. President Andrew Jackson to describe his collection of unofficial advisors.

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“Kitchen Cabinet”

Question 6

1830 law; authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands.

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Indian Removal Act

Question 7

an 1831 United States Supreme Court case; the Cherokee Nation sought a federal order against laws passed by the U.S. state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits.

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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Question 8

1832 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Georgia law that saw the arrest of Samuel Worchester for living on Cherokee lands; the decision solidified that treaties made with Native American tribes were federal mandates and that states could not interfere in any way with native lands.

Answer 8

Worchester v. Georgia

Question 9

a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Northeast landscape

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Hudson River School

Question 10

a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages; operated throughout the 1800s and early 1900s

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Temperance

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a political system in which two political factions divide power

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Two-Party System

Question 12

State _____ chosen to absorb funds after President Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter for the Second Bank of the United States; flooded the U.S. markets with paper currency, leading to the Panic of 1837.

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Pet Banks

Question 13

a philosophy that sought to define gender roles in the nineteenth century; a women’s place was in the home to create a strong moral environment for her children and husband; a man’s place was in the work place

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cult of domesticity

Question 14

the first women’s rights convention in New York, 1848; created a historic document, the ‘Declaration of Sentiments,’ which demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote.

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Seneca Falls Convention

Question 15

formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States. In 1822, the society established on the west coast of Africa a colony that in 1847 became the independent nation of Liberia.

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American Colonization Society

Question 16

a movement to end the practice of slavery; gained more traction in the 1840s

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Abolitionism

Question 17

abolitionist; editor of the abolitionist newspaper “The Liberator”, a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society

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William Lloyd Garrison

Question 18

an anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison which drew attention to abolition

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The Liberator

Question 19

one of the most prominent African American figures in the abolitionist movement; escaped from slavery in maryland whopublished his own antislavery newspaper called the “North Star”

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Frederick Douglass

Question 20

an antislavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass

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The North Star

Question 21

an American essayist, poet, and philosopher; a leading transcendentalist; best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience”, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

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Henry David Thoreau

Question 22

a person that owned property (real estate) and at least 20 slaves; this elite group in Southern society had much power in politics as well

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Planter aristocracy

Question 23

classification for an American socio-cultural group, of generally Western and/or Northern European descent, with origins in the Southern United States and in Appalachia.

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poor whites

Question 24

a new religious movement in the mid-1800s; the name was based on ecstatic dances that were a part of their worship; they believed that God had a male and female component.

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Shakers