Chapter 6 review

Question 1

What did the court rule in Worcester v. Georgia?

Answer 1

Georgia dishonored Cherokee property rights

Question 2

What did the Whig party advocate?

Answer 2

Expanding the federal government

Question 3

Where did the Germans settle?

Answer 3

Midwest

Question 4

What did people who formed utopian communities believe about society?

Answer 4

Society corrupts humans

Question 5

What was the underlying belief of prison reform?

Answer 5

Rehabilitating prisoners

Question 6

What is the gradualism approach to ending slavery?

Answer 6

Faze out slavery in the upper south first

Question 7

What did abolitionists argue regarding slavery?

Answer 7

Free immediately with no compensation to slaveholders

Question 8

What did Andrew Jackson believe about the spoils system?

Answer 8

Open up government to ordinary citizens

Question 9

What important role did the Second Bank of the United States play?

Answer 9

Kept the money supply stable

Question 10

Why did the Irish immigrate to the United States?

Answer 10

Fleeing a famine

Question 11

Why was Americans’ commitment to religion weakening by the end of the 1700s

Answer 11

The growth of scientific knowledge challenged faith

Question 12

What did romanticism emphasize?

Answer 12

Nature over man made interspirituality and feeling over reason

Question 13

What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton propose the women’s rights movement focus on?

Answer 13

Gaining the right to vote

Question 14

Who told his audience that he was a thief and robber b/c he “stole this head, these limbs from my master and ran off with them”?

Answer 14

Frederick Douglass

Question 15

What are personal liberty laws?

Answer 15

Restricted slave recapture

Question 16

What is the basic theme of transcendentalism?

Answer 16

Embrace feeling over reason

Question 17

National nominating convention?

Answer 17

Selecting presidential candidates at a meeting of state delegates

Question 18

Caucus system?

Answer 18

Selecting presidential candidates at a meeting of a party’s congressional members

Question 19

Nullification?

Answer 19

Declaring a federal law invalid

Question 20

Spoils system

Answer 20

Practice of appointing people to government jobs on the basis of party loyalty and support

Question 21

Secession

Answer 21

Withdrawing from the Union

Question 22

Dates in order

Answer 22

Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler

Question 23

David Walker

Answer 23

Advocating violence and rebellion to end slavery

Question 24

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 24

Founded the American Anti slavery Society

Question 25

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 25

Seneca falls convention

Question 26

Frederick Douglass

Answer 26

African American abolitionist

Question 27

Emma Willard

Answer 27

Girls boarding school

Question 28

Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 28

First female medical degree