Chapter 13-15 Flashcards
The Jacksonian charge of “corrupt bargain” to gain John Quincy Adams the Presidency arose because
d. Clay was named secretary of state after giving his support to Adam.
The Whigs
b. supported government programs and reform
The factory system spread from __ to other countries.
D. Britain
__ campaigned effectively for more and better school houses, longer school terms, higher pay for the teachers, and an expanded curriculum.
Horace Mann
Which of the following decisions made by the Mexican government anger Americans who settle in Texas?
The Mexicans abolished slavery.
THe supreme court ruled in Worcester v. Georgie that
d. georgia’s state laws had no authority within Cherokee territory.
The__Party (aka American Party) were American nativists who wanted strict restrictions on immigration and naturalizations.
Know nothing
The twelfth amendment to the constitution
a. required that presidential and vice presidential candidates to be from the same party.
The origins of the Age of Reform can be found in all of the following EXCEPT
a. the defeat of the South and slavery in the Civil War.
The “kitchen Cabinet”
b. was the nickname of Jackson’s unofficial advisors.
Jackson’s veto of the Bank of the U>S re-charter bill represented
a. bold assertion of Presidential power(due to personal feelings_.
The leader of South Carolina’s opposition to the “Tariff of Abominations: was
a. John Calhoun
Jackson was embroiled in a controversy with Nicholas Biddle over the
b. Bank of the U.S.
The Specie Circular
c. was an attempt by Jackson to remedy the problems associated with the destruction of the bank.
IN the immediate after math of the successful Texas Revolution
a. Texas petitioned to join the U.S. but was refused admission.
Prominent leaders of the Whig Party included
a. Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
The __ movement was led by those who believed that alcohol was interfering with the political and social development of the nation.
c. Temperance
__ was the essay that advocated passive resistance as a form of justifiable protest. This essay would inspire later social movement leaders.
b. On Civil Disobedience
Which of the following in FALSE regarding the Second Great Awakening.
c. It placed reason over faith.
Americans came to look on their spectacular Western Wilderness areas especially as
a. one of the things that de-fired and distinguished America as a new nation.
The two major sources of European immigration to America in the 1840s and 1850s were
c. Germany and Ireland
__Was the state that tried to nullify the Tariff of Abomination.
c. South Carolina
__come up with the ida of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
b. Eli Whitney
Industrialization was first to arrive in America because
a. there was a shortage of labor in the capital.
The first industry to be shaped by the new factory systems of manufacturing was
a. textiles
The first major improvements in the American transportation system came from
c. steamboats and highway
Once consequence of the influx of new immigrants was
b. upsurge of anti-catholicism
One major effect of industrialization was
d. a rise in the gap between rich and poor.
Two denominations that especially gained supporters among the common people of the West and South were
d. Methodist and Baptist
Which was NOT something that the Unitarian’s believed in?
b. there was no afterlife.
Reformer Dorthea Dix worked for the cause of
c. better treatment of the mentally ill.
__came up with the idea to build the Erie Canal
a. Dewitt Clinton.
The transcendentalists’ writers stressed the ideas of
a. inner truth and individual and self-reliance.
A major change in affecting the American family in the 19th century was
d. a decline in the average number of children per household.
The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women’s rights movement with it’s call for
c. equal rights, including the right to vote.
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.
b. shakers
Which of the following is NOT true about women?
d. they did not fight for temperance and the abolition of slavery.
The __ stretched from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia,Illinois (591 mi)
b. National Railroad.
