Chapters 10 and 11 Test Flashcards
Hopin for and alliance between the West and New England, who did Clay give his support to as president?
Quincy Adams
Who was Adams’s secretary of state?
Henry Clay
What disaster was associated with the Monroe Administration?
The Panic of 1819
What did the Spoils System do?
Removed Officeholders of the rival party
Which Tariff benefitted the West and Northeast and the South’s expenses?
Tariff of 1828
Why did Calhoun support the Tariff of 1816?
Thought it as a measure of national defense in the wake of the War of 1812
What declared that states therefore had the right to nullify the law within their borders?
Calhoun’s anonymous Carolina Exposition and Protest
What document authorized use of arms to collect customs duties in South Carolina?
Force Bill
What did the policy do the Jackson and his supporters enact about the bank?
Removed federal deposits from the bank of the US and placed them in state banks
Which act increased the number of deposit banks as well as loosen federal control over them?
Deposit Act
In 1826, who threatened to expose Masonic secrets leading to his disappearance?
William Morgan
How did van Buren attempt to confront the depression, even though it ultimately failed?
Independent Treasury Act
After a conversion in 1821, who became a Presbyterian minister and conducted revivals in towns, most notably in Rochester?
Charles G. Finney
Who thundered against all use of alcohol in six acclaimed lectures in 1825?
Lyman Beecher
What was the first national temperance organization?
American Temperance Society
Who became the secretary of MA’s new board of education in 1837?
Horace Mann
What was the main antislavery group before 1830?
The American Colonization Society
Who began a newspaper and put forth proposals against slavery in 1821?
Quaker Benjamin Lundy
Who was hired as assistant editor for Lundy and launched his own newspaper, The Liberator, in 1831?
William Lloyd Garrison
In 1837, who embarked on a lecture tour addressing both men a women?
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Who did people follow into the new American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society?
Lewis Tappan
In the 1840s, who became the first abolitionist to lecture solely on women’s rights?
Lucy Stone
Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention?
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In 1841, who was the Unitarian Schoolteacher who discovered insane people kept in unheated jail rooms?
Dorothea Dix
Who founded New Harmony (Utopian Society) in Indiana in 1825?
Robert Owen
What group of people sought to proclaim the infinite spiritual capacities of men and women?
Transcendentalists
Which was the most controversial utopian community?
The Oneida
Who established the Oneida community and when?
John Noyes in 1848
What machine made the hard soil better for farming?
John Deere’s steel tip plow
Who formulated a plan to manufacture muskets using interchangeable parts and unskilled labor?
Eli Whitney
Who transmitted the first telegraph from Baltimore to Washington in 1844?
Samuel F.B. Morse
Who wrote Treatise on Domestic Economy?
Catharine Beecher
Who used anesthetics for surgical uses?
William TG Morton
Who consoled total abstinence from alcohol, and substituting mea for grains and vegetables?
Sylvester Graham
Name three popular forms of entertainment
The Theatre, Minstrel Shows, PT Barnum’s circus
Who created the American fiction character, frontiersman Natty Bumppo in The Pioneers?
James Fenimore Cooper
Who was the leader of the transcendentalist movement?
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
What book called for a unique American Style?
The American Scholar
Who wrote Civil Disobedience?
Henry David Thoreau
Which book defended a citizen’s right to disobey unjust laws?
Civil Disobedience
Who and where wrote the famous book Walden?
Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond
Who wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century?
Margaret Fuller
What book broke with the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women?
Women in the Nineteenth Century
Who wrote Leaves of Grass?
Walt Whitman
Who wrote the Scarlett Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote the Cask of Amontillado?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote Moby Dick?
Herman Melville
Who painted scenes of the region around the Hudson River?
Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Frederick Church
