Chapter 13 Vocabulary

Question 1

Puritanical

Answer 1

Extremely or excessively strict in matters of morals or religion.

Question 2

Usurpation

Answer 2

The act of seizing, occupying, or enjoying the place, power, or functions of someone without legal right.

Question 3

Mudslinging

Answer 3

Malicious, unscrupulous attacks against an opponent.

Question 4

Machine

Answer 4

A hierarchical political organization, often controlled through patronage or spoils, in which professional workers deliver large blocks of voters to preferred candidates.

Question 5

Spoils

Answer 5

Public offices given as a reward for political support.

Question 6

Denominations

Answer 6

In American religion, the branches of Christianity, organized into distinct church structures and traditions, such as Presbyterians, Baptists, Disciples of Christ, and so forth.

Question 7

Evangelical

Answer 7

In American religion, those believers and churches, usually Protestant, that emphasize personal salvation, individual conversion experiences, voluntary commitment, and the authority of Scripture.

Question 8

Hard money

Answer 8

Metal money-gold or silver-as distinguished from paper money. (The term also came to me and you were liable or secure money that maintained or increased its purchasing power over time. soft money, or paper money, was assumed to inflate or lose value.)

Question 9

Favorite sons

Answer 9

In American politics, presidential candidates nominated by their own states, primarily out of local loyalty, but not expected to win.

Question 10

Populist

Answer 10

A political program or style focused on the common people and attacking perspectives and policies associated with the well-off, well-born, or well-educated. (The populist party was a specific third-party organization of the 1890s.)

Question 11

Divine right

Answer 11

The belief that government or rulers are directly established by God.

Question 12

Spoils System

Answer 12

The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

Question 13

Deference

Answer 13

The yielding of opinion to the judgement of someone else; in politics, the inclination of lower social or economic classes to conform to the political views and choices of social elites.

Question 14

Trail of Tears

Answer 14

The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans.

Question 15

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 15

The “Tariff of 1825” was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.

Question 16

Indian Removal Act

Answer 16

The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.

Question 17

Bank War

Answer 17

The political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States (BUS) during the Andrew Jackson administration (1829–1837).

Question 18

Whig Party

Answer 18

Whigs stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements. Went against Jackson.

Question 19

Two Party System

Answer 19

A two-party system is a system where two major political parties dominate politics within a government. One of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority party while the other is the minority party.