Chapter 10

Question 1

In the wake of the War of 1812, younger Republicans like Henry Clay and John Calhoun:

Answer 1

Continued to support agrarianism, but believed that the nation’s economic independence required a manufacturing sector

Question 2

Women writers benefited from:

Answer 2

The growth of the reading public, part of the democratization of American life

Question 3

As president, John Tyler

Answer 3

Vetoed a bill to create a new national bank, thus angering Whigs

Question 4

How does the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?

Answer 4

He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public

Question 5

John Quincy Adams’s vision included all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer 5

States’ rights

Question 6

In its decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

Answer 6

The Second Bank of the United States was constiutional

Question 7

By the 1830s, the term “citizen” in America had become synonymous with the right to:

Answer 7

Vote

Question 8

The term “Era of Good Feelings” refers to the period of American history when:

Answer 8

There seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration

Question 9

Whigs wanted the government involved in all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer 9

Restricting corporations

Question 10

Whose 1840 presidential campaign portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin and liked to drink hard cider?

Answer 10

William Henry Harrison

Question 11

The national political parties of the second American party system were:

Answer 11

Democrats and Whigs

Question 12

In the presidential election of 1840:

Answer 12

The Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by Democrats

Question 13

The nullification crisis:

Answer 13

Involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery

Question 14

The Panic of 1837

Answer 14

Was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton

Question 15

During Jackson’s presidency, most Democrats did all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer 15

Speak out against presidential use of the veto

Question 16

Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:

Answer 16

Revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the Union

Question 17

By 1840, approximately ____ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote

Answer 17

90

Question 18

In the presidential election of 1824, who received the most votes but failed to win a majority of either the popular or electoral votes (requiring the House of Representatives to select a president)?

Answer 18

Andrew Jackson

Question 19

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision

Answer 19

Supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity

Question 20

Which of the following statements about Martin Van Buren is FALSE?

Answer 20

A graduate of Harvard, he was known for his sterling intellectual accomplishments

Question 21

By 1860, free black men could vote on the same basis as whites only in:

Answer 21

Five New England states

Question 22

The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Tocqueville on Democracy was that:

Answer 22

American democracy really represented an important cultural shift

Question 23

In the 1830s, Andrew Jackson believed all of the following about the Second Bank of the United States EXCEPT that:

Answer 23

The Bank did not allow issuance of enough paper money to meet national demand

Question 24

Which of the following did NOT happen during the election of 1828?

Answer 24

Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the “corrupt bargain” of 1824

Question 25

The nullification crisis ended:

Answer 25

With a compromise tariff

Question 26

Many of the members of Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet, as his group of close advisers was known, were:

Answer 26

Newspaper editors

Question 27

Andrew Jackson’s inauguration was:

Answer 27

A large, rowdy event

Question 28

Who was the president of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?

Answer 28

Nicholas Biddle

Question 29

Democrats in the 1830s generally believed that:

Answer 29

New corporate enterprises were suspicious

Question 30

Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?

Answer 30

John C. Calhoun

Question 31

In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting:

Answer 31

Continued in Virginia because large slaveholders dominated the state’s politics

Question 32

Why was a second Missouri Compromise necessary?

Answer 32

Missouri’s state constitution barred free blacks from entering the state

Question 33

The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:

Answer 33

The Spoils system

Question 34

“Hard money” in the 1830s referred to:

Answer 34

Gold and silver, also called “specie.”

Question 35

Which is NOT true about the Whigs?

Answer 35

Their strongest support came from the lower Northwest and the southern backcountry

Question 36

By the time of Jackson’s presidency, politics:

Answer 36

Often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames

Question 37

Which Indian nation fought a war with the U.S. army from 1835 to 1842 to resist removal to the West?

Answer 37

Seminole

Question 38

The controversy over Peggy Eaton:

Answer 38

Helped to enhance Martin Van Buren’s influence during the Jackson administration

Question 39

In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:

Answer 39

Indians were wards of the federal government

Question 40

What was the President Martin Van Buren’s new soltuion to the problem of what to do about the federal government’s relationship to banking?

Answer 40

He proposed that federal funds be controlled b government officials rather than by bankers

Question 41

The Dorr War:

Answer 41

Divided Rhode Islanders over the issue of expanding voting rights for white men

Question 42

In the first half of nineteenth century, paper money:

Answer 42

Promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver

Question 43

The Second Bank of the United States was created:

Answer 43

By Congress in 1816,with the support of President Madison

Question 44

In response to the demand for internal improvements, President James Madison

Answer 44

Called for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to build roads and canals

Question 45

The Monroe Doctrine:

Answer 45

Declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization

Question 46

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:

Answer 46

The remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones

Question 47

Who argued in a famous debate with South Carolina’s Robert Hayne that the people, not the states, created the Constitution?

Answer 47

Daniel Webster

Question 48

The independence movements in Latin America between 1810 and 1822:

Answer 48

Paralleled in some ways the independence movement that created the United States

Question 49

The Force Act of 1833

Answer 49

Gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs

Question 50

Henry Clay was charged with orchestrating a “corrupt bargain” during the 1824 election so that he could become:

Answer 50

Secretary of state

Question 51

As president, John Quincy Adams proposed a comprehensive plan for an activist state, which called for all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer 51

Free homesteads for settlers on western public lands

Question 52

The Panic of 1819:

Answer 52

Prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors but hurt creditors

Question 53

A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:

Answer 53

That both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage

Question 54

Which of the following is NOT true of John Quincy Adams?

Answer 54

He was a firm believer in strict construction of the Constitution