Chapter 9

Question 1

36’30’ Boundary

Answer 1

Expanson of slavery caused by the Missouri Compromise
- slavery would be prohibited in other new states north of this line, but permitted to new states to the south

Question 2

Denmark Vesey

Answer 2

Conspiracy: convinced white South Carolinians that anti-slavery ideas put them in danger of a massive uprising
* * Born into slavery in St. Thomas
* Transported in slavery from Bermuda to charleston, South Carolina
* Founder of a congregation of the first independent Black denomination
* Key organizer of a planned slave revolt

Question 3

F

First Seminole War

Answer 3

Ended with the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 giving Flordia to the US

Question 4

Southern Exceptionalism

Answer 4

South was distinct from the rest of the United States
- contibuted to the outbreak of the Civil War
- Helped understand the intense versions of several cultural and social practices

Question 5

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 5

Import tax that provided protection for nothern manufacturing interests by raising prices of European products in America
- Was blamed for massive transfer of wealth

Question 6

Nullificiation Crisis

Answer 6

Issue of states’ rights vs federal authority
- right to nullify federal laws that were unconstitutional
- Was occuring due to the tariff of abominations
- Divided north and south
Set a precedent by linking concepts of states’ rights and secession, foreshadowing Civil War events

Question 7

Secession

Answer 7

The act of a state withdrawing from the United States
- threated to nullify the tariffs

Question 8

States’ Rights

Answer 8

Political doctrine that emphasizes that powers and rights of individual states as opposed to the federal government

Question 9

Eaton Affair (Petticoat Affair)

Answer 9

Scandalized the women of elite Washington, leading to the resignation of all but one member of Jackson’s cabinet

Question 10

Second Bank of the United States

Answer 10

Established in1816 under Madison to replace Hamilton’s First Bank expiring in 1811
- designed to stablize growing American economy
- required other banks to pay debts promptly in gold, prevent issuing too many paper banknnotes

Question 11

Bank War

Answer 11

Created the faction and idea of democrats
- mechanism for rich to propser at the expense of the poor, bank was unconstitutional

Question 12

Panic of 1837

Answer 12

The chaos of setting off bank runs and a 5 year recession
- Caused by Federal land being need to be paid in silver or gold
- general economic depression
- created opp for Whig Party

Question 13

Whig Party

Answer 13

Opponents of Jackson (Democracy), took advantage of the Panic of 1837
-grown out of political coalition
Whigs = opposition of the King, Andrew Jackson = the king

Question 14

Anti-Masonic

Answer 14

Conspiracy theory that claimed Freemasons were an elite secret society, including an accustation that Masons had murdered William Morgan to prevent him from revealing the secrets of their order
- purpose = destroy freemasons
- took the model of the Whig’s = demonstrated importance of conspiracy theories in American politics

Question 15

Know Nothings (American Party)

Answer 15

Powerful anti-immigrant nativist force, especially mobilized around anti-Catholicism
- sought and won office across the country in the 1850’s

Question 16

Jim Crow

Answer 16

A clownish enslaved man <- caricature
(system of racial segregation and discriminatory laws enforced in the US)

Question 17

Minstrel Shows

Answer 17

Popular forms of entertainment in the 19th century portraying racial sterotypes of Black ppl
- mocked and dehumanized African Americans
- Laid groundwork for social acceptance ofssegregation and discrimination

Question 18

American System

Answer 18

The federal gov’t and states invested in improvements to address transporation in the large territory of the US, especially the Erie Canal and railroads