Semester 2 Test 1

Question 1

What is strict construction

Answer 1

Following the Constitution without considering differences in time conditions inventions and social changes

Question 2

Explain the bank war responses of both sides and the outcome

Answer 2

Jackson wants to shut down national banks so he puts money in state banks. Nicholas bidder cut off funding to the state banks. People were afraid of national banks power so they joined Jackson and eventually took down the national bank

Question 3

What is nullification and what did the south see it as protection from nullification is a formal suspense

Answer 3

nullification is a formal suspense by a state of federal law within its borders the south saw it a protection against the federal government encroaching their rights

Question 4

What was the tariff of 1832 considered. Why?

Answer 4

It was considered a protectionists because it protected local producers form former competitors and it didn’t protect evenly

Question 5

Why was the south upset with the tariff of 1832

Answer 5

It benighted the textile industries in the north and it hurt southern cotton farmers

Question 6

Who passed an ordinance of nullification what else did they threatened to do

Answer 6

South Carolina and they also threatened to secede

Question 7

What did Jackson do in response to the nullification

Answer 7

Jackson sent ships and threatened to go to war with them

Question 8

What was the breakdown of states in 1819

Answer 8

22 states were divided into 11 free 11 slave

Question 9

Explain the three arguments in the Missouri compromise

Answer 9

1: Missouri was admitted slave state
2: Maine was admitted a free state
3: Except for Missouri, slavery was to be excluded from the Louisiana purchase lands north latitude 36 30

Question 10

Explain how each side saw the compromise

Answer 10

North: saw as expansion of slavery
South: saw as government controlling slavery

Question 11

What Supreme Court decision declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional

Answer 11

Fred Scott vs. Sanford

Question 12

Explain the compromise of 1850

Answer 12

Texas looses border for 10m and fugitive act passed

Question 13

What is popular sovereignty

Answer 13

People get to vote for what they want

Question 14

What did Stephen a Douglas want to be constructed from Chicago to San Francisco

Answer 14

Transcontinental railroad

Question 15

Douglas wanted the western territory to be divided into what two territories

Answer 15

Kansas and Nebraska

Question 16

What did the Kansas-Nebraska act establish

Answer 16

2 new states that could vote for slavery

Question 17

How would slavery be allowed in two new territories

Answer 17

Popular sovereignty

Question 18

Who was John brown

Answer 18

An abolitionist that that bordered ruffians

Question 19

Who were border ruffians

Answer 19

People who support slavery, used violence and voted for slavery in areas they didn’t live (Kansas and Nebraska)

Question 20

Who did Abraham Lincoln run against for senate from Illinois? Who won?

Answer 20

Douglas. Douglas won

Question 21

Who were the candidates in the election of 1860? Who won?

Answer 21

Lincoln and Douglas. Lincoln won

Question 22

Who were free soilers

Answer 22

People that opposed expansion of slavery. Crossed the borders voting against slavery

Question 23

What major political party fell apart

Answer 23

Whigs

Question 24

What new party was formed by former members of the party that fell apart

Answer 24

Republicans

Question 25

Who was their first presidential candidate

Answer 25

John C Freeport

Question 26

What states did the party need Lincoln to take in order to win the election of 1860

Answer 26

New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania

Question 27

What was Lincoln a symbol of?

Answer 27

Frontier, hardworking, self made man, and American Dream

Question 28

Explain the spoils system

Answer 28

Give jobs to supporters