SOCIAL STUDIES MIDTERM

Question 1

How did democracy grow during the age of Jackson?

Answer 1

During this time period, Jackson enabled more white men to vote. By suggesting that white men without properties gain suffrage

Question 2

Caucus

Answer 2

Private Meeting

Question 3

What is the corrupt bargain?

Answer 3

Once in office, Adams installed Henry Clay to the post of Secretary of State. Adams’s victory was a gut punch for Jackson, who expected to be elected President having more popular and electoral votes. Following this logic, Jackson and his followers accused Clay and Adams of striking a corrupt bargain.

Question 4

Economic Depression

Answer 4

When the economy shrinks and people lose their jobs.

Question 5

What happened in the election of 1824?

Answer 5

After no candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the 1824 election, John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives.

Question 6

Frontier

Answer 6

Edge

Question 7

Manifest Destiny

Answer 7

A slogan that suggested, the United States had the right to expand under god.

Question 8

National Road

Answer 8

The first major improved highway funded by the federal government that spanned from Maryland to the Ohio river.

Question 9

Why was there hostility between Native Americans and White Settlers?

Answer 9

Bias, stereotyping and prejudices led to mistrust and hostility.

Question 10

Nominating Convention

Answer 10

A convention where delegates from all states meet to choose the next presidential candidate.

Question 11

What is the Nullification Crisis

Answer 11

nullification crisis, in U.S. history, 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 12

What is the Oregon Trail

Answer 12

A road that led to Oregon County

Question 13

Reasons For Jacksons Hatred Against The Second Bank Of The United State

Answer 13

Believed the bank was too powerful, Run by wealthy aristocrats and private bankers. And that it was undemocratic and unconstitutional.

Question 14

Attempts by Native Americans to Become More American

Answer 14

They took on american culture, customs professions. Developed schools, and writing systems as well as a form of government. In hope to keep their land.

Question 15

What is the Spoils System

Answer 15

In politics and government, a spoils system is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends, and relatives as a reward.

Question 16

States Rights

Answer 16

The States Right to exercise power independently.

Question 17

Abolitionist

Answer 17

Someone who wanted to abolish slavery for good.

Question 18

Cash Crop

Answer 18

Crop sold for money at the market.

Question 19

Civil Disobedience

Answer 19

Disobeying a law thought unjust.

Question 20

Cotton Gin

Answer 20

A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.

Question 21

Credit

Answer 21

Borrowed money.

Question 22

Frederick Douglas

Answer 22

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, and writer. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement.

Question 23

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 23

William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.

Question 24

Interchangeable Parts

Answer 24

Machine-made parts.

Question 25

Interest Group

Answer 25

A group of people based on the popular interest or concern.

Question 26

King Cotton

Answer 26

King Cotton, phrase frequently used by Southern politicians and authors prior to the American Civil War, indicating the economic and political importance of the southern cotton industry.

Question 27

Nativist

Answer 27

White Americans born in the country against immigration.

Question 28

Slave Codes -

Answer 28

• African Americans could not gather in groups for more than 3;
• They could not leave their owners land without written permission;
• They could not learn to read or write;
• They could not own guns.

Question 29

Social Reform

Answer 29

reshaping and reforming culturally accepted laws and norms in light of new cultural paradigms.

Question 30

Temperance Movement

Answer 30

movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor.

Question 31

Trade Union

Answer 31

Organized Groups to improve their working conditions.

Question 32

Harriet Tubman

Answer 32

Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom.

Question 33

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 33

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S.

Question 34

Underground Railroad

Answer 34

A network to help enslaved African Americans to escape.

Question 35

Urbanization

Answer 35

The population of rural people moving to urban areas.

Question 36

Plantation Owners

Answer 36

Wealthy
Political Leader
Had more than 50 enslaved African Americans
Lived in big houses.

Question 37

Small Farmers

Answer 37

Owned their own land
Had at least 1-2 enslaved African Americans.

Question 38

Poor White Farmers

Answer 38

Poor white People
Did Not own land or worked other people’s land.
Had NO slaves.
They either farmed or raised Cattle or Pigs.