Exam Flashcards
How did Andrew Jackson expand suffrage?
He believed every white male should vote so he expanded suffrage
Why was Andrew Jackson known as the «common man» president?
He was known as the common man because he could relate to poor people like the farmers
List different events/ actions/ policies that took place during Jacksonian democracy.
Indian removal act, nullification crisis, sectionalism, nullification and states rights
Explain the cause of the nullification crisis?
Tariffs
Why did South Carolina believe they could nullify a federal law?
Argued the constitution gave states the right to block the law
Explain the purpose of Indian removal act?
Gave the President the ability to negotiate and buy land from natives. Relocated the native Americans
List the three parts of the American System?
High tariffs
Support deauthorizing of the bank of the United States
Fédéral support for internal improvements
Define the second great awakening?
Wide spread religious revival
The abolition movement largely coincided with what major American religious movement?
Second great awakening
Explain the temperance?
Limiting consumption of alcohol due to poverty, abuse , changes of beliefs (second great awakening)
What was Horace Manns biggest impact?
Supported education by 1850 northern schools had publicly funded elementary schools
Explain the impact that Williams Lloyd garrison had on the abolitionist movement?
Began publishing an abolitionist newspaper in Boston, the liberator
What was the impact of the Nat turner rebellion?
After his rebellion southern politicians enacted harsher slave codes
The Seneca falls convention is considered the beginning of what major movement?
Women’s rights movement
List 2 different parts of the Mississippi compromise?
Slave states / free states
As our population was moving westward, what was the biggest question facing our nation?
Will slavery be a thing?
Define Manifest destiny
The will of god, that it’s sovereignty, people and culture be extended from coast to coast
Whose presidency was MOST concerned with fulfilling the country’s manifest destiny?
James K Polk
Why did many people head to California in the mid 1800’s?
Discover of gold in California
List the advantages of the compromise of 1850 for the north and the south?
South- no restrictions on slavery in Utah, New Mexico
North- California as a free state
Explain the purpose behind the Wilmot proviso?
Attempted to prevent slavery in lands gained from the Mexican war, reopened the heated debate about the expansion of slavery
Define popular sovereignty?
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
Explain the Kansas Nebraska act?
To secure a northern route for the transcontinental railroad
What event is an example of why popular sovereignty failed in the Kansas Nebraska act?
Bleeding Kansas
List the two parts of the dred Scott (Scott v Sanford) decision?
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
Explain the impact of John brown and his raid at Harpers ferry?
Southern politicianists enacted stricter slave rules due to John browns attack making slaves look violent
Why was the south upset with the election of 1860?
The election of 1860 won by Abraham’s Lincoln and the south thought demonstrated the political domination in North
In the early 1800s, many people in the United States migrated westwards because
Of the availability of farmland
Before the Civil War, the principle of popular sovereignty was proposed as a means of
Deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state
List the 2 different parts of the Compromise of 1820.
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
Which of these is associated with the presidency of Andrew Jackson?
the creation of the Spoils System
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
What is an example of the concept of Manifest Destiny in action?
Adding Texas, land from the Mexican-American War, Oregon Territory, Gadson Purchase
“Jacksonian Democracy” is associated with what political party?
Democrat
Why was the South upset with the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th President of the United States without any southern support.
What newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish?
The liberator
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who was the biggest advocate for public education?
Horace Mann
Define Jacksonian democracy?
Brand of politics and changes brought about by Andrew Jackson and his followers
Define Suffrage?
Right to vote
Define sectionalism?
Placing the interests of your religion ahead of the nation as a whole
Define abolitionism?
Immediate end to slavery
Define States right?
Rights held by individual states
Define nullify?
Refuse to listen to or follow
Define Secede?
The leave of. The union
Known as a great compromiser for his contributions in the compromise of 1820, 1850 and the American System
Henry clay
Advocate for womens suffrage. Seneca falls convention
Elizabeth cady Stanton
Andrew Jackson’s Vice President who resigned to help South Carolina during nullification crisis
John C Coulhan
What caused the Mexican American war?
Mexico thought it owned Texas but US thought it was a free state and took it. Mexico got mad and started war.
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.
Fredrick Douglass
