Period 4.8-4.14

Question 1

Corrupt Bargain

Answer 1

The election of 1824 resulted in none of the candidates receiving a majority of electoral votes. In the subsequent HoR vote, Clay persuaded the house to vote JQA in exchange for Clay being appointed secretary of state.

Question 2

Indian Removal Act

Answer 2

Signed into law by Jackson which forced the resettlement of thousands of Native Americans. Jackson sided with the states in the subsequent Supreme Court cases, so even though Georgia was ruled to not have any control over Cherokee lands, Georgia forced them out anyway.

Question 3

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 3

The increased tariff of 1828 that resulted in SC threatening to nullify the act or secede from the Union.

Question 4

Nullification Crisis

Answer 4

Born from the idea that states have a right to choose whether or not to obey certain federal laws. South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union after the ensuing debate regarding the role of the federal government.

Question 5

States’ Rights

Answer 5

Rights owned by the states as opposed to the federal government. Supported by Jacksonian Democrats and opposed by the Whigs.

Question 6

Democrats

Answer 6

Supporters of Jackson under the re-developing two-party system of the US. Opposed the Whigs, which resembled the Federalist party.

Question 7

Bank Veto

Answer 7

Incident in which President Jackson vetoed a proposal to renew the charter for the Bank of the US, claiming it was unauthorized by the Constitution.

Question 8

Panic of 1837

Answer 8

A result of Jackson’s Specie Circular which called for all purchase of federal lands be made in gold and silver, leading to the loss in value of banknotes and a severe financial crisis.

Question 8

Whigs

Answer 8

Party opposed to Jackson and the Democrats that resembled the Federalist party and placed emphasis on internal improvements to infrastructure.

Question 9

Transcendentalism

Answer 9

Small group of New England thinkers that reflected the European movement of romanticism that focused on intuition, feelings, individual acts of heroism, and the study of nature.

Question 10

Utopia

Answer 10

The idea of withdrawing from conventional society to create an ideal community that included the Brook Farm.

Question 11

Antebellum

Answer 11

The period before the Civil War.

Question 12

Second Great Awakening

Answer 12

A religious revival that in some cases reasserted traditional Calvinist teachings but mainly reflected the idea of salvation for all.

Question 13

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Answer 13

Founded by Joseph Smith who traced a connection between American Indians and the lost tribes of Israel. Followers were forced to move Westward, led by Brigham Young, and eventually settled near the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Question 14

Temperance

Answer 14

A response to the high rate of alcohol consumption that was led by women and the American Temperance Society.

Question 15

Asylum movement

Answer 15

Movement led by those such as Dorothea Dix which called for the building of new mental hospitals to assist mental patients.

Question 16

Common (public) school movement

Answer 16

Motivated by the new institution of universal white male suffrage and advocated for free, tax-paid public schools that would educate the masses. Movement was led by those such as Horace Mann and William McGuffey

Question 17

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 17

Meeting of leading feminists in which a document modeled after the Declaration of Independence declared that all men and women are created equal.

Question 18

Abolition

Answer 18

Growing movement centered in the North calling for the freedom of slaves throughout the entire US.

Question 19

The Liberator

Answer 19

Abolitionist newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison which advocated for the immediate abolition of slavery in all states and territories.

Question 20

The North Star

Answer 20

Antislavery journal started by Fredrick Douglass, a formerly enslaved man who spoke in public about the brutality and degradation of slavery.

Question 21

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Answer 21

Revolt led by Nat Turner in which 55 Whites were killed. Whites then murdered hundreds of African Americans and put down the rebellion, and fear regarding slave revolts largely brought to an end antislavery talk in the South.

Question 22

Slave Codes

Answer 22

Legislation born of the fear that the booming slave population would revolt, restricted the education, movement, and gathering of slaves in many parts of the South.

Question 23

King Cotton

Answer 23

Refers to the US’s reliance on cotton for its economy, especially the South.

Question 24

Planters

Answer 24

Cotton planters who moved westward as demand and profits increased for their crop.

Question 25

Peculiar Institution

Answer 25

The name given to slavery by those uncomfortable with the idea of owning other people.