Midterm p2

Question 1

Morrill Land Grant Act

Answer 1

granted each state 30,000 acres of western land, to be distributed by each senator and representative, and funded the construction of agricultural and mechanical schools.

Question 2

National Banking Act

Answer 2

a United States federal law that established a system of national charters for banks. It encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities

Question 3

New York Draft Riots

Answer 3

a series of violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.

Question 4

Nullification Crisis

Answer 4

confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.

Question 5

Panic of 1819

Answer 5

financial panic swept across the country. The growth in trade that followed the War of 1812 came to an abrupt halt. Unemployment mounted, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and agricultural prices fell by half. Investment in western lands collapsed.

Question 6

Panic of 1837

Answer 6

financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down, westward expansion was stalled, unemployment went up, and pessimism abounded.

Question 7

Panic of 1857

Answer 7

a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy

Question 8

Peggy Eaton Affair

Answer 8

a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831.

Question 9

Philadelphia Convention

Answer 9

a radical decision to throw out the Articles of Confederation and start fresh developing a framework for strengthening the power of the United States’ federal government.

Question 10

Pickneys Treaty

Answer 10

It resolved territorial disputes between the two countries and granted American ships the right to free navigation of the Mississippi River as well as duty-free transport through the port of New Orleans, then under Spanish control.

Question 11

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 11

upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

Question 12

Railroad Building

Question 13

Reconstruction Acts

Question 14

Report on Manufacturing

Question 15

Report on Public Credit

Question 16

Rush-Bagot Treaty

Question 17

Second Bank of the US

Question 18

Second Great Awakening

Question 19

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 20

Shays Rebellion

Question 21

Shermans March to the Sea

Question 22

Specie Circular

Question 23

Tariff of Abominations

Question 24

Ex Parte Milligan

Question 25

Ex Parte Merryman

Question 26

Maysville Road Veto

Question 27

NW Ordinance of 1787

Question 28

Actual Representation

Question 29

Scalawags

Question 30

Shakers

Question 31

Stephen Douglas

Question 32

Susan B Anthony

Question 33

Tecumseh

Question 34

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 35

Thomas Jefferson

Question 36

Ulysses Grant

Question 37

War Hawks

Question 38

Walt Whitman

Question 39

Whigs

Question 40

William Crawford

Question 41

Willian Garrison

Question 42

William Henry Harrison

Question 43

William Sherman

Question 44

Winfield Scott

Question 45

Zachary Taylor

Question 46

James Oglethorpe

Question 47

Ben Franklin

Question 48

John Peter Zenger

Question 49

George Washington

Question 50

Thomas Paine

Question 51

Ten Percent Plan

Question 52

Tenure of Office Act

Question 53

Three-Fifths Compromise

Question 54

Trail of Tears

Question 55

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 56

Transcontinential Treaty

Question 57

Treaty of Ghent

Question 58

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 59

Virginia Plan

Question 60

New Jersey Plan

Question 61

Wade Davis Bill

Question 62

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Question 63

Webster-Hayne Debate

Question 64

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 65

Wilmot Proviso

Question 66

Worcester v. Georgia