CHAPTER 10 Flashcards
The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Tocqueville on Democracy was that:
American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.
By 1840, approximately __________ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote.
90
What innovation led to mass production of newspapers and pamphlets in the 1820s and 1830s?
The use of steam power for presses.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money:
promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver.
The term “Era of Good Feelings” refers to the period of American history when:
there seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:
the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.
What significant issue did the Missouri Compromise aim to resolve?
The extension of slavery.
Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820–1821:
revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union.
The Monroe Doctrine:
declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization.
Henry Clay was charged with orchestrating a “corrupt bargain” during the 1824 election so that he could become:
secretary of state.
By the time of Jackson’s presidency, politics:
often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.
The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:
the spoils system.
Which state referred to the Tariff of 1828 as an “abomination”?
South Carolina.
The nullification crisis:
involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery.
Jackson adhered to what philosophy during the nullification crisis?
The national government was supreme.
What was the role of the Supreme Court in the protection of Native American lands?
The Supreme Court was unable to enforce any form of protection.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:
supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.
In the 1830s, how should Andrew Jackson’s ideas on the Second Bank of the United States be characterized?
The Bank was a “monster” that had too much power.
How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?
He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public.
Whose 1840 presidential campaign portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin and liked to drink hard cider?
William Henry Harrison.
