Implementing the Constitution

Question 1

Whig Party

Answer 1

opposed Andrew Jackson’s party, now called the Democratic Party. Both parties ran campaigns that attracted more people to important national issues to encouraged them to vote.

Question 2

American System

Answer 2

Created by Senator Henry Clay and John Quincy Adam. This program benefited the North, South, and West by establishing a better national transportation system, setting the first protective tariff to encourage domestic manufacturing, and created a second national bank.

Question 3

Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

The use of new technologies in manufacturing (steam engines and machines to spin thread) led to this revolutionary movement in Great Britain. during the 1700s. This technology reached the U.S. by the 1800s. The Northern states boomed with industry, as 70% of the countries manufacturing came from there.

Question 4

Immigration

Answer 4

Few restrictions on immigration existed since so many jobs were being created as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

Question 5

Nativism

Answer 5

Anti-Immigration feelings developed as a result of the large amounts of immigrants coming to the U.S.

Question 6

Potato Famine

Answer 6

Drove many Irish immigrants to the U.S. to escape mass starvation.

Question 7

Cotton Gin

Answer 7

Intensified the need for slavery in the South since more agriculture production was now possible.

Question 8

Spoils System

Answer 8

Created by President Andrew Jackson, government jobs were given to people who had worked to help their political party win the election. This corruption led to the Pendleton Act which created civil service exams.

Question 9

National Bank

Answer 9

Created to help improve the national debt, this was resented by southerners and westerners, who wanted a great supply of money in circulation.

Question 10

Removal Policy

Answer 10

forced all Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River.

Question 11

Trail of Tears

Answer 11

1838, the U.S. Army rounded up the Cherokee and moved them west in a forced march.

Question 12

abolitionist movement

Answer 12

grew as cotton production became more profitable and slavery spread. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and other activists fought to end slavery.

Question 13

Underground Railroad

Answer 13

a series of safe houses where escaping slaves could rest safely as they made their way north and into Canada. Harriet Tubman made 19 trips to escort runaways north.

Question 14

Women’s Rights Convention

Answer 14

Held in Seneca Falls, New York. The Declaration of Sentiments was created which fought to end legal inequalities faced by married women.

Question 15

Manifest Destiny

Answer 15

the belief that the United Sates had a divine mission to expand to the Pacific Ocean and possess the entire North American continent, and to spread the ideals of freedom and democracy.

Question 16

popular sovereignty

Answer 16

when people living in a territory vote on an issue in order to determine the outcome.

Question 17

secede

Answer 17

withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

Question 18

Confederate States of America

Answer 18

The six states that seceded from the Union in 1861 forming their own new nation

Question 19

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 19

Given by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring that all slaves in those areas still in rebellion against the Union shall be free. Although Lincoln could not enforce this, it changed the meaning of the war to be one determined to end slavery.

Question 20

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 20

Bought from France for $15 million by Thomas Jefferson, this doubled the size of the U.S. and gave them access to the Mississippi River and Port of New Orleans.