1830's - Sheet1

Question 1

The Book of Mormon

Answer 1

Published by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830, it is the foundation of Mormon beliefs. America-centric belief system.

Question 2

Latter Day Saint movement

Answer 2

A series of independent church groups that can trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement started by Joseph Smith, Jr. during the Second Great Awakening in the 1820s.

Question 3

Indian Removal Act

Answer 3

A law signed by Pres. Jackson in 1830 calling for the relocation of Native Tribes to land West of the Mississippi Territory, protested by missionaries.

Question 4

Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

Answer 4

A treaty signed between the Choctaw and the U.S. government in 1830, after the Indian Removal Act, which ceded millions of acres of land in Mississippi in exchange for land in Oklahoma.

Question 5

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Answer 5

(1831) The Supreme Court ruled that they do not have the authority to hear a suit brought by the Cherokee Nation, as the Cherokee have a relationship to the United States like that of “a ward to its guardian.”

Question 6

Millerism

Answer 6

Part of the Second Great Awakening, Millerites were the followers of William Miller who predicted the second coming of Christ.

Question 7

Nat Turner

Answer 7

An African-American slave who was hanged for plotting the most deadly slave revolt in American history in the state of Virginia in 1831. In the aftermath, Southern states forbid the education of free blacks, restricted rights of assembly, to bear arms, to vote, and required white ministers to be present at black worship services.

Question 8

Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 8

(1832) The Supreme Court found that states have no jurisdiction in Indian Country.

Question 9

Petticoat affair

Answer 9

Peggy Eaton, wife of Secretary of War John Henry Eaton, was blacklisted by the wives of members of Jackson’s cabinet due to her reputation as a hussy. Jackson demanded that their wives either be more friendly to Peggy Eaton or they resign, all members of his cabinet and his Vice President John C. Calhoun resign in 1831 and Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet” is formed.

Question 10

Benjamin Bonneville

Answer 10

An American explorer who lead the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains in the 1830s.

Question 11

Trail of Tears

Answer 11

The unconstitutional ethnic cleansing of Native American tribes during the 1830s, the trail specifically refers to the 1838 removal of the Cherokee from Georgia.

Question 12

Ursuline Convent Riots

Answer 12

An 1834 event triggered by the rebirth of rabid anti-Catholic sentiments in antebellum New England. A convent full of Roman Catholic Nuns was burned down by a Protestant mob.

Question 13

Whig Party

Answer 13

A political party formed in 1833 in opposition to Jackson’s economic and social conservatism. The Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization, banking and economic protectionism to stimulate manufacturing. It appealed to entrepreneurs and planters, but had little appeal to farmers or unskilled workers. It included many active Protestants, and voiced a moralistic opposition to the Jacksonian Indian removal policies. The party fell apart in 1854 over the issue of slavery, with the northern voter-base mostly gravitating to the new Republican Party, and the Southerners mostly joining the Know Nothing Party

Question 14

Great Moon Hoax

Answer 14

A series of six newspaper articles published in 1835 which brazenly claimed that life was found on the moon.

Question 15

Specie Circular

Answer 15

An 1836 executive order of Andrew Jackson requiring payment for government land to be in gold. This was to prevent over-speculation of land formerly Indian territory. Carried out during van Buren’s presidency, the devaluation of paper currency only increased with Jackson’s proclamation. This sent inflation and prices upwards, many blamed it for the Panic of 1837.

Question 16

Panic of 1837

Answer 16

A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Pres. Jackson had made efforts to wrest control of the banks out of the hands of East coast elites, in the process creating state banks (pet banks) that printed almost worthless money and issued loans irresponsibly. Federal land became very expensive, and financial crises in Europe led to devalued cotton and a trade deficit. Pres. van Buren moved to establish an independent U.S. treasury system in 1840 to hold and disburse government funds. Though initially defeated, the federal system became permanent in 1846. Many state governments were bankrupt due to infrastructure spending in the 19th century. On the national level, Congress passed a federal bankruptcy law removing about $450 million in debt from a million creditors. However, by bailing out investors the credit system itself was substantially undermined. Conditions in the South were much worse than the conditions in the Northeast. The Depression was typified by a pessimistic mood, and led to the hopeful expansionism of the late 1840s.

Question 17

Samuel Morse

Answer 17

The inventor of the telegraph, praised in America during the 1840s.

Question 18

Missouri Executive Order 44

Answer 18

AKA The Extermination Order, An 1838 order issued by the governor of Missouri which ordered all Mormons to leave the state under threat of extermination at the hands of a militia, led to war crimes against the Mormon population.

Question 19

Nature

Answer 19

An 1836 essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson in which he put forth the nature of transcendentalism. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature.