Chapter 11-12 Formation of Politics & Expansion

Question 1

How many political parties did America for the most part had in the Era of Good Feelings?

Answer 1

1

Question 2

Where did Andrew Jackson live in his childhood?

Answer 2

Nashville, Tennessee

Question 3

What election did Andrew Jackson run in?

Answer 3

1828.

Question 4

What is the name of the Election of 1824?

Answer 4

the Corrupt Bargain

Question 5

Who wins the election of 1824?

Answer 5

John Quincy Adams

Question 6

Who became the secretary of state in the election of 1824?

Answer 6

Henry Clay

Question 7

What party was Jackson in?

Answer 7

Democrat

Question 8

What were the points of the Jacksonian Democracy?(4)

Answer 8

strict interpretation of the constitution, hands off approach to economy, patronage system

Question 9

What is the Manifest Destiny?

Answer 9

it is God’s will that America should go from Coast to Coast

Question 10

What does the Spoil System do?

Answer 10

it rotates the people in office

Question 11

Do southerners like tariffs and what did they call it?

Answer 11

no a Tariff of Abomination

Question 12

What is the argument in the Nullification?

Answer 12

the states can have power over the supreme court.

Question 13

Who does the whig party oppose?

Answer 13

Jackson

Question 14

How did Jackson close the national bank?

Answer 14

He put all of the governments money in small pet banks.

Question 15

Who led the Whig Party originally?

Answer 15

Clay and Webster

Question 16

Who proposed the Indian Removal Act?

Answer 16

Jackson

Question 17

Where were the Indians proposed to be moved to?

Answer 17

Oklahoma

Question 18

Who won the 1836 Election and why?

Answer 18

Martin Van Buren, the whig party had 4 candidates

Question 19

Why was Tyler thrown in as vice President?

Answer 19

for regional reasons

Question 20

Who is the American Scholar?

Answer 20

Emerson

Question 21

What mill was used as an example mill?

Answer 21

Lowell Mills

Question 22

Who did the Lowell Mills appeal to?

Answer 22

women and girls

Question 23

Who were the Boston Associates?

Answer 23

those who invested into the textile industry

Question 24

Who was Samuel Slater?

Answer 24

a British textile mechanic who stole all the plans of the machines

Question 25

What are the three things needed for mills?

Answer 25

water, work force, machines

Question 26

How were the mills powered?

Answer 26

water power

Question 27

What was the Lowell Offering?

Answer 27

a newspaper for workers of Lowell Mills

Question 28

What did the steam boat offer?

Answer 28

a method of going upstream

Question 29

Where was the Erie canal?

Answer 29

New York

Question 30

Is the south making its own items?

Answer 30

no

Question 31

What is the focus of the west in commerce?

Answer 31

growing food

Question 32

What is the advantage of the factory system over the putting out system?

Answer 32

all the manufacturing would occur in one place

Question 33

What is the idea of domesticity?

Answer 33

the home is a sanctuary of the world

Question 34

Who Samuel Colt?

Answer 34

he started mass production of guns

Question 35

Who painted the expedition of Lewis and Clark?

Answer 35

George Caleb Bingham

Question 36

What president was elected in 1836?

Answer 36

Van Buren

Question 37

Who represented the ideals of the South?

Answer 37

John C. Calhoun

Question 38

Who was the leading American senator from Massachusetts?

Answer 38

Daniel Webster

Question 39

Who proposed the American System?

Answer 39

Henry Clay

Question 40

How did George Catlin paint the natives?

Answer 40

as a vanishing race

Question 41

What election was William Henry Harrison elected in?

Answer 41

1840

Question 42

What was the nickname of the Tariffs in the time period?

Answer 42

Tariff of Abominations

Question 43

Where did the National Government store its money during the absence of a national bank?

Answer 43

in pet banks

Question 44

What did the Supreme court rule during the Gibbons vs. Odgen and Charles River Bridge vs. Warren Bridge trials?

Answer 44

a state cannot support a monopoly

Question 45

What were the five civilized tribes?

Answer 45

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.

Question 46

What famous art school helped to consolidate and spread American art culture?

Answer 46

Hudson River School

Question 47

What did Specie Circular mandate?

Answer 47

that land had to purchased in cash

Question 48

What did the Supreme court rule in the Dartmouth College vs. Woodward trial?

Answer 48

a state could not violate another states contract.

Question 49

What is the idea that the states have the right to reject federals laws?

Answer 49

nullification

Question 50

What was the first major improved highway in the US called?

Answer 50

National Road

Question 51

Who was the first multi millionaire in the US and what did he do?

Answer 51

John Jacob Astor through fur trade

Question 52

What was the concept of the putting-out system?

Answer 52

individual family homes would make a small portion of a product and then pass it on

Question 53

Who founded a Harvesting Machine company?

Answer 53

Cyrus McCormick

Question 54

Who invented the steel Plow?

Answer 54

John Deere

Question 55

Who is considered the father of the American industrial revolution and how did he do it?

Answer 55

Samuel Slater stole the plans of an English textile factory

Question 56

Who made mass producing of sewing machines much easier?

Answer 56

Isaac Singer

Question 57

Who helped make the mass production of the revolver commercially viable?

Answer 57

Samuel Colt

Question 58

The Second American party system created what?

Answer 58

truly national political parties

Question 59

The American political system developed in such a way that

Answer 59

most adult white males gained the right to vote

Question 60

The Period called the Era of Good Feeling came to an end with

Answer 60

the election of 1824

Question 61

A significant characteristic of popular democracy was what?

Answer 61

an insistence that voters express loyalty to a specific party

Question 62

Adrew Jackson ushered in a period of American history known as the what?

Answer 62

Age of the Common Man

Question 63

During his administration, Andrew Jackson

Answer 63

used the presidential veto quite frequently

Question 64

A major difference between postindustrial production and factory work was what?

Answer 64

the precise and unrelenting work schedule in factories

Question 65

One unanticipated result of the transportation revolution was what?

Answer 65

the spread of epidemic diseases throughout much of the nation