Exam

Question 1

How did Andrew Jackson expand suffrage?

Answer 1

He believed every white male should vote so he expanded suffrage

Question 2

Why was Andrew Jackson known as the «common man» president?

Answer 2

He was known as the common man because he could relate to poor people like the farmers

Question 3

List different events/ actions/ policies that took place during Jacksonian democracy.

Answer 3

Indian removal act, nullification crisis, sectionalism, nullification and states rights

Question 4

Explain the cause of the nullification crisis?

Answer 4

Tariffs

Question 5

Why did South Carolina believe they could nullify a federal law?

Answer 5

Argued the constitution gave states the right to block the law

Question 6

Explain the purpose of Indian removal act?

Answer 6

Gave the President the ability to negotiate and buy land from natives. Relocated the native Americans

Question 7

List the three parts of the American System?

Answer 7

High tariffs
Support deauthorizing of the bank of the United States
Fédéral support for internal improvements

Question 8

Define the second great awakening?

Answer 8

Wide spread religious revival

Question 9

The abolition movement largely coincided with what major American religious movement?

Answer 9

Second great awakening

Question 10

Explain the temperance?

Answer 10

Limiting consumption of alcohol due to poverty, abuse , changes of beliefs (second great awakening)

Question 11

What was Horace Manns biggest impact?

Answer 11

Supported education by 1850 northern schools had publicly funded elementary schools

Question 12

Explain the impact that Williams Lloyd garrison had on the abolitionist movement?

Answer 12

Began publishing an abolitionist newspaper in Boston, the liberator

Question 13

What was the impact of the Nat turner rebellion?

Answer 13

After his rebellion southern politicians enacted harsher slave codes

Question 14

The Seneca falls convention is considered the beginning of what major movement?

Answer 14

Women’s rights movement

Question 15

List 2 different parts of the Mississippi compromise?

Answer 15

Slave states / free states

Question 16

As our population was moving westward, what was the biggest question facing our nation?

Answer 16

Will slavery be a thing?

Question 17

Define Manifest destiny

Answer 17

The will of god, that it’s sovereignty, people and culture be extended from coast to coast

Question 18

Whose presidency was MOST concerned with fulfilling the country’s manifest destiny?

Answer 18

James K Polk

Question 19

Why did many people head to California in the mid 1800’s?

Answer 19

Discover of gold in California

Question 20

List the advantages of the compromise of 1850 for the north and the south?

Answer 20

South- no restrictions on slavery in Utah, New Mexico
North- California as a free state

Question 21

Explain the purpose behind the Wilmot proviso?

Answer 21

Attempted to prevent slavery in lands gained from the Mexican war, reopened the heated debate about the expansion of slavery

Question 22

Define popular sovereignty?

Answer 22

The act of allowing the people in a given territory/ state to vote on if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state

Question 23

Explain the Kansas Nebraska act?

Answer 23

To secure a northern route for the transcontinental railroad

Question 24

What event is an example of why popular sovereignty failed in the Kansas Nebraska act?

Answer 24

Bleeding Kansas

Question 25

List the two parts of the dred Scott (Scott v Sanford) decision?

Answer 25

1-slaves are not people but rather property
•2-Congress cannot limit the expansion of slavery into the territories (Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional), slavery is protected by the Constitution and only a constitutional amendment could end slavery

Question 26

Explain the impact of John brown and his raid at Harpers ferry?

Answer 26

Southern politicianists enacted stricter slave rules due to John browns attack making slaves look violent

Question 27

Why was the south upset with the election of 1860?

Answer 27

The election of 1860 won by Abraham’s Lincoln and the south thought demonstrated the political domination in North

Question 28

In the early 1800s, many people in the United States migrated westwards because

Answer 28

Of the availability of farmland

Question 29

Before the Civil War, the principle of popular sovereignty was proposed as a means of

Answer 29

Deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state

Question 30

List the 2 different parts of the Compromise of 1820.

Answer 30

Missouri enters as a slave state and Maine enters as a free state.

•Slavery is not allowed north of Missouri’s southern border (36 30 line) in the Louisiana Purchase Territory

Question 31

Which of these is associated with the presidency of Andrew Jackson?

Answer 31

the creation of the Spoils System

Question 32

What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?

Answer 32

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 33

What is an example of the concept of Manifest Destiny in action?

Answer 33

Adding Texas, land from the Mexican-American War, Oregon Territory, Gadson Purchase

Question 34

“Jacksonian Democracy” is associated with what political party?

Answer 34

Democrat

Question 35

Why was the South upset with the Election of 1860?

Answer 35

Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States without any southern support.

Question 36

What newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?

Answer 36

The liberator

Question 37

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 37

South Carolina

Question 38

Who was the biggest advocate for public education?

Answer 38

Horace Mann

Question 39

Define Jacksonian democracy?

Answer 39

Brand of politics and changes brought about by Andrew Jackson and his followers

Question 40

Define Suffrage?

Answer 40

Right to vote

Question 41

Define sectionalism?

Answer 41

Placing the interests of your religion ahead of the nation as a whole

Question 42

Define abolitionism?

Answer 42

Immediate end to slavery

Question 43

Define States right?

Answer 43

Rights held by individual states

Question 44

Define nullify?

Answer 44

Refuse to listen to or follow

Question 45

Define Secede?

Answer 45

The leave of. The union

Question 46

Known as a great compromiser for his contributions in the compromise of 1820, 1850 and the American System

Answer 46

Henry clay

Question 47

Advocate for womens suffrage. Seneca falls convention

Answer 47

Elizabeth cady Stanton

Question 48

Andrew Jackson’s Vice President who resigned to help South Carolina during nullification crisis

Answer 48

John C Coulhan

Question 49

What caused the Mexican American war?

Answer 49

Mexico thought it owned Texas but US thought it was a free state and took it. Mexico got mad and started war.

Question 50

A former slave who escaped to freedom in the North who published a firsthand account of the evils of slavery. Also founded the newspaper the North Star.

Answer 50

Fredrick Douglass