apush period 4

Question 1

the american system

Answer 1

program of internal improvements and protective tariffs promoted by speaker of the house henry clay in his presidential campaign of 1824; his proposals formed the core of whig ideology in the 1830s and 1840s

Question 2

federally funded infrastructure

Question 3

national bank

Question 4

protective tariffs

Question 5

what are the effects of the american system

Question 6

the market revolution/market economy

Answer 6

when the us was still apart of great britain the economy was largely reliant on their imports and financial boost. but following the revolution and the war of 1812 a newfound sense of nationalism led to a desire of independent economic freedom that led to an increase in domestic production and the creation of middle class

Question 7

manifest destiny

Answer 7

phrase first used in 1845 to urge annexation of texas; used thereafter to encourage us settlement of european colonial and native lands in the great plains and the west and, more generally, as a justification for american empire

Question 8

westward expansion

Question 9

louisiana purchase

Answer 9

president thomas jefferson’s 1803 purchase from france of the important port of new orleans and 828,000 square miles west of the mississippi river to the rocky mountains. in theory, it more than doubled the territory of the united states at a cost of only $15 million; in reality it was still the land of multiple native nations

Question 10

monroe doctrine

Answer 10

president james monroe’s declaration to congress on december 2,1823 that the american continents would be thenceforth closed to european colonization, and that the united states would not interfere in european affairs

Question 11

nationalism

Question 12

sectionalism

Question 13

federal power

Question 14

mcculloch v maryland

Answer 14

1819 us supreme court decision in which chief justice john marshall, holding that maryland could not tax the second bank of the united states, supported the authority of the federal government versus the states

Question 15

gibbons v ogden

Answer 15

1824 us supreme court decision reinforcing the “commerce clause” (the federal government’s right to regulate interstate commerce) of the constitution chief justice john marshall ruled against the state of new york’s granting of steamboat monopolies

Question 16

nullification crisis

Answer 16

1832 attempt by south carolina to nullify the 1832 federal tariff law. the problem was that jackson saw nullification as unconstitutional

Question 17

whigs

Answer 17

-loved the american system
-believed the national government enhanced the realm of freedom
-believed the government could interfere with private life
-people along canals, bankers, larger plantain owners, evangelical protestants

Question 18

democrats

Answer 18

-worried by the widening social gap and believed the merchants were ripping off farmers
-wanted a hands-off economy
-supported power left to states
-wanted government to stay out of private
-farmers, poor, immigrants, new business owners

Question 19

jacksonian policy

Question 20

spoils system

Question 21

bank war

Answer 21

political struggle in the early 1830s between president jackson and financier nicholas biddle over the renewing of the second bank’s charter

Question 22

indian removal act

Answer 22

an 1830 law signed by president andrew jackson that permitted the negotiation of treaties to obtain native americans’ lands in exchange for their deportation to what would become oklahoma

Question 23

trail of tears

Answer 23

cherokee’s own term for their forced removal, 1838-1839, from the southeast to indian territory (later oklahoma). of 18,000 at the start of the journey, at least 4,500 died

Question 24

missouri compromise

Answer 24

admit missouri as a slave-holding state, admit maine as a free state, prohibited slavery in the rest of the louisiana territory north of latitude 36 30’

Question 25

slave codes

Question 26

how do slaves resist?

Question 27

spheres of influence and cult of domesticity

Question 28

second great awakening

Answer 28

religious revival movement of the early decades of the nineteenth century, in reaction to the growth of secularism and rationalist religion; began the predominance of the baptist and methodist churches

Question 29

second great awakening causes

Question 30

second great awakening effects

Question 31

age of reform

Question 32

women’s rights movement

Question 33

women’s suffrage

Question 34

seneca falls

Question 35

declaration of the rights and sentiments

Question 36

utopian communities

Question 37

abolition movement

Answer 37

wanted to illegalize slavery because people saw it as a moral wrong and generally a hypocrisy when compared to the ideals the nation was founded upon. more popular in the north and received lots of backlash in the south

Question 38

american colonization society

Question 39

immigration

Question 40

settlement

Question 41

nativism

Answer 41

anti-immigrant and anti-catholic feeling especially prominent from the 1830s through the 1850s; the largest group of its proponents was new york’s order of the star-spangled banner, which expanded into the american (know-noting) party in 1854

Question 42

xenophobia

Question 43

cultural influence

Question 44

labor influence