Unit 3 Test

Question 1

Impressment

Answer 1

The threatening of American sailors into the British navy

Question 2

Pan-Indian resistant movement

Answer 2

Movement for political and cultural unification of Indian tribes

Question 3

War hawks

Answer 3

Members of congress who pushed for war against Britain

Question 4

War of 1812

Answer 4

War over British restrictions on American shipping

Question 5

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 5

Ended the war of 1812

Question 6

Era of good feelings

Answer 6

The disappearance of federalists made republicans more high spirited

Question 7

Rush-bagot agreement

Answer 7

Demilitarized the Great Lakes by limiting the number of ships that could station there

Question 8

American system

Answer 8

Promote economic growth and protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition

Question 9

Second great awakening

Answer 9

Religious revivals by great emotion in large public meetings

Question 10

Democratic Party

Answer 10

Led by Andrew Jackson; favored states rights and limited role for federal government

Question 11

Albany regency

Answer 11

Name for the state political machine

Question 12

Spoils system

Answer 12

The awarding of government jobs to party loyalists

Question 13

Trail of tears

Answer 13

Forced march of the Cherokees from their homelands to west

Question 14

Nullification crisis

Answer 14

A states rights party in SC attempted to nullify federal law

Question 15

Abolitionist movement

Answer 15

Antislavery group committed to ending slavery

Question 16

Whig party

Answer 16

Opposed Jacksonian democrats; wanted strong national government that promoted economic growth

Question 17

Gag rule

Answer 17

Prevented discussion of antislavery petitions

Question 18

Gang system

Answer 18

Supervision of slave field hands into working teams on southern plantations

Question 19

Slave codes

Answer 19

Laws passed to defend the status of slaves and defend the rights of slaves

Question 20

Nat turners rebellion

Answer 20

Uprising of slaves led by Nat turner which killed 60 white ppl

Question 21

Underground Railroad

Answer 21

Support system set up by antislavery groups in the south to help slaves to escape

Question 22

Black codes

Answer 22

Laws passed denying many rights of citizenship to free black people before the civil war

Question 23

Translation revolution

Answer 23

Improvements in transportation. Cost lowered and it was faster

Question 24

Putting out system

Answer 24

Merchants furnished households with raw materials

Question 25

Temperance

Answer 25

Sought to eliminate consumption of alcohol

Question 26

Cult of domesticity

Answer 26

Women should stay home

Question 27

Nativist

Answer 27

Favoring the interests of native born ppl over immigrants

Question 28

Benevolent empire

Answer 28

Network of reform associations with Protestant churches in order to restore moral order

Question 29

Shakers

Answer 29

Followed mother Ann Lee who preached strict celibacy and communal living

Question 30

Communism

Answer 30

Common ownership of property

Question 31

New harmony

Answer 31

Utopian community based on the ideas of Robert Owen

Question 32

Socialism

Answer 32

Based on government ownership of industry and worker control

Question 33

Transcendentalism

Answer 33

Movement about a belief in the divinity of individuals

Question 34

Liberty party

Answer 34

First antislavery party

Question 35

Slave power

Answer 35

Concept in abolitionist and northern antislavery propaganda that said southerners were promoting slavery at the expense of whites