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Era 4 Review Flashcards

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Explain Jefferson’s reason for purchasing the Louisiana Territory. Why was he worried about the purchase?

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  • Americans feared invasion from other European nations

- the constitution said nothing of expanding territory

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What was the purpose of the Corps of Discovery?

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  • the expedition of lewis and clark to explore the new territory acquired from the Louisiana Purchase
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Why did Congress enacted the embargo act of 1807?

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  • Britain set up a blockade of France to prevent the United States from trading with France
  • Impressment’s (the kidnapping of American soldiers)
  • hurt America more than it helped
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Explain the various reasons for supporting another war with Britain in 1812.

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  • wanted to stop Britain for helping/arming natives
  • wanted protection at seas
  • wanted open markets
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What was the importance of the Hartford convention?

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  • A meeting mostly of New England Federal list who oppose the war
  • Establish 2/3 vote of Congress in order to declare war
  • Attempted secession
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Explain the lasting legacy is of the war of 1812.

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  • No clear winner because no territory changed
  • American patriotism increased
  • Native Americans became weaker
  • a growth in manufacturing
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Why was the battle of New Orleans an unnecessary battle?

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  • The war had already been declared over but slow mail from Europe delayed the news to General Jackson
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What role did “interchangeable parts” play in the industrial revolution?

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  • Sped up production
  • made repair is easier
  • allowed for the use of unskilled workers
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Explain the Lowell mill factory system

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Young girls were sent to work in factories and stay there to earn wages for their families and they worked in horrible conditions

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Explain Nat Turner’s rebellion

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  • A slave who led 70 men in a rebellion in Virginia in 1831

- the group killed 55 men, women and, children

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The lasting impact of a Nat Turner’s rebellion?

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  • Slavery striction’s became much more strict
  • slave owners were fearful
  • tensions over slavery increased
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What caused the era of good feeling? What was it? Was it real?

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  • It was a brief end to political bitterness
  • caused by the only party in government was democratic republican
  • wasn’t real because political rivalry was still present
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What was henry Clay’s American system?

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  • Establish protective tariffs by taxing imports
  • encourage national banks that would create a single US currency, a second bank of the US, cover loans, large financing projects
  • transportation would be improved by building roads waterways, thus increasing trade
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Mcculloch v. Maryland

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  • Gave Congress implied powers not written in the Constitution
  • protected the bank of United States
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Gibbons v Ogden

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Gave Congress the power to regulate in grant interstate commerce

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What is sectionalism and how did it lead to regional disputes with in the US?

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  • Loyalty or nationalism for a region caused tensions because
  • southerners depended on slavery
  • Northerners depended on factories
  • west on farming
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What is the Missouri compromise and what effect did it have on resolving the issue of slavery?

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  • Banned slavery north of the 36’30 parallel
  • the affect was the North had much more territory in the south
  • it didn’t resolve the issue of slavery
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Explain the Monroe doctrine

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Prohibited interference from Europe in the western hemisphere meaning Europe couldn’t colonize

19
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Dorthea Dix

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Push to improve conditions in mental health

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Founded the liberator a weekly anti-slavery newspaper and pushed for African-American suffrage

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Frederick Douglass

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  • Part of the abolitionist movement
  • helped slaves escape
  • educated
  • publicly spoke out against slavery
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Horace Mann

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Founded the first public school system

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Elizabeth candy Stanton

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Started the Seneca Falls convention and was an abolitionist

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David Walker

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The publisher of the liberator

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Susan B Anthony

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Argued for women’s rights to earn her own wages

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Alexis du Tocqueville

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Believe the importance of the “individual” as opposed to the “state”

  • believe that people can prosper without interference from higher institutions
  • modern day liberalism
27
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Explain the controversy over the 1824 presidential election

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  • Andrew Jackson received the most electoral votes but not a majority (plurality)
  • Henry Clay ran as a spoiler
28
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The importance of the Seneca Falls convention

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  • The first women’s rights convention

- over 300 men and women attended

29
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Explain the area known as the “burned over District”

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An area in New York with thousands converted due to the second grade awakening

30
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Explain how Andrew Jackson violated the Supreme Court ruling with his Indian removal act

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The Supreme Court ruled in war Worcester v. Georgia that the Indians had a right to stay on their land but Jackson move them anyways

31
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Explain the theory of the “colt of domestic city”

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People who believe the woman’s work should be confined to the house in their primary focus should be on the family and child rearing

32
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Trail of tears

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The trail towards the new territory for Native Americans

33
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Why were many antebellum reform movement led by middle-class white women

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Middle-class white women husbands worked in factories and they had a lot more free time on their hands

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Explain the “nullification crisis” what brought it on? what problems did it cause?

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  • The South Carolina legislator declared that increase tariff of 1828 to be unconstitutional
  • according to the nullification theory each state had a right to decide whether to obey a federal law or declare it null and void it
35
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Why did Andrew Jackson abolish national bank in favor of “pet banks”

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  • Jackson believed national banks were a threat to democracy
  • only benefiting the wealthy not average Americans
  • “pet banks” for more easily accessible
36
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Explain the goal of the American colonization Society?

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  • Wanted to send free blacks to a colony in Africa after they were liberated
  • many northerners and southerners supported this because I didn’t like the idea of them living near one another
37
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What is transcendentalism

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  • Focus on intuition and knowledge rather than religious doctrines
  • believe people are pure but not corrupted by societys intuitions
38
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What was the most significant cause of the panic of 1837

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Jackson’s pet banks failed

39
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Explain the ways in which Andrew Jackson extended suffrage to common people?

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  • Primary elections
  • nominating conventions
  • repeal the law of men owning property to vote

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