Chapter 13-15

Question 1

The Jacksonian charge of “corrupt bargain” to gain John Quincy Adams the Presidency arose because

Answer 1

d. Clay was named secretary of state after giving his support to Adam.

Question 2

The Whigs

Answer 2

b. supported government programs and reform

Question 3

The factory system spread from __ to other countries.

Answer 3

D. Britain

Question 4

__ campaigned effectively for more and better school houses, longer school terms, higher pay for the teachers, and an expanded curriculum.

Answer 4

Horace Mann

Question 5

Which of the following decisions made by the Mexican government anger Americans who settle in Texas?

Answer 5

The Mexicans abolished slavery.

Question 6

THe supreme court ruled in Worcester v. Georgie that

Answer 6

d. georgia’s state laws had no authority within Cherokee territory.

Question 7

The__Party (aka American Party) were American nativists who wanted strict restrictions on immigration and naturalizations.

Answer 7

Know nothing

Question 8

The twelfth amendment to the constitution

Answer 8

a. required that presidential and vice presidential candidates to be from the same party.

Question 9

The origins of the Age of Reform can be found in all of the following EXCEPT

Answer 9

a. the defeat of the South and slavery in the Civil War.

Question 10

The “kitchen Cabinet”

Answer 10

b. was the nickname of Jackson’s unofficial advisors.

Question 11

Jackson’s veto of the Bank of the U>S re-charter bill represented

Answer 11

a. bold assertion of Presidential power(due to personal feelings_.

Question 12

The leader of South Carolina’s opposition to the “Tariff of Abominations: was

Answer 12

a. John Calhoun

Question 13

Jackson was embroiled in a controversy with Nicholas Biddle over the

Answer 13

b. Bank of the U.S.

Question 14

The Specie Circular

Answer 14

c. was an attempt by Jackson to remedy the problems associated with the destruction of the bank.

Question 15

IN the immediate after math of the successful Texas Revolution

Answer 15

a. Texas petitioned to join the U.S. but was refused admission.

Question 16

Prominent leaders of the Whig Party included

Answer 16

a. Henry Clay and Daniel Webster

Question 17

The __ movement was led by those who believed that alcohol was interfering with the political and social development of the nation.

Answer 17

c. Temperance

Question 18

__ was the essay that advocated passive resistance as a form of justifiable protest. This essay would inspire later social movement leaders.

Answer 18

b. On Civil Disobedience

Question 19

Which of the following in FALSE regarding the Second Great Awakening.

Answer 19

c. It placed reason over faith.

Question 20

Americans came to look on their spectacular Western Wilderness areas especially as

Answer 20

a. one of the things that de-fired and distinguished America as a new nation.

Question 21

The two major sources of European immigration to America in the 1840s and 1850s were

Answer 21

c. Germany and Ireland

Question 22

__Was the state that tried to nullify the Tariff of Abomination.

Answer 22

c. South Carolina

Question 23

__come up with the ida of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

Answer 23

b. Eli Whitney

Question 24

Industrialization was first to arrive in America because

Answer 24

a. there was a shortage of labor in the capital.

Question 25

The first industry to be shaped by the new factory systems of manufacturing was

Answer 25

a. textiles

Question 26

The first major improvements in the American transportation system came from

Answer 26

c. steamboats and highway

Question 27

Once consequence of the influx of new immigrants was

Answer 27

b. upsurge of anti-catholicism

Question 28

One major effect of industrialization was

Answer 28

d. a rise in the gap between rich and poor.

Question 29

Two denominations that especially gained supporters among the common people of the West and South were

Answer 29

d. Methodist and Baptist

Question 30

Which was NOT something that the Unitarian’s believed in?

Answer 30

b. there was no afterlife.

Question 31

Reformer Dorthea Dix worked for the cause of

Answer 31

c. better treatment of the mentally ill.

Question 32

__came up with the idea to build the Erie Canal

Answer 32

a. Dewitt Clinton.

Question 33

The transcendentalists’ writers stressed the ideas of

Answer 33

a. inner truth and individual and self-reliance.

Question 34

A major change in affecting the American family in the 19th century was

Answer 34

d. a decline in the average number of children per household.

Question 35

The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women’s rights movement with it’s call for

Answer 35

c. equal rights, including the right to vote.

Question 36

This group, led by”mother” Ann Lee, was known for their “shaking” s they felt the spirit of GOd pulse through them during church services.

Answer 36

b. shakers

Question 37

Which of the following is NOT true about women?

Answer 37

d. they did not fight for temperance and the abolition of slavery.

Question 38

The __ stretched from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia,Illinois (591 mi)

Answer 38

b. National Railroad.