unit 4

Question 1

barbary wars

Answer 1

caused by jefferson didn’t want to pay the barbary pirates

Question 2

democratic republicans’ and federalists’ views on interpreting the constutition

Answer 2

democratic republicans advocated for a strict interpretation of the constitution, federalists liked a loose interpretation

Question 3

louisiana purchase in 1803

Answer 3

france lost lousiana to the states because they did not find success in stopping the haitian revolution. jefferson didn’t really agree but like, too late.

Question 4

1803, marbury vs. madison

Answer 4

marbury deserved his commission in the court, which also proclaimed the court as the final interpreter, but marbury also didn’t get the position?

Question 5

mcculloch vs. maryland

Answer 5

federal law over state law

Question 6

war of 1812

Answer 6

caused because france and britain were attacking us ships despite neutrality. war against britain. democratic republicans were for it, and federalists were very against it.

Question 7

hartford convention of 1814

Answer 7

federalists discussed how to end the war and kinda threw around the idea that new england should secede from the union.

Question 8

era of good feelings

Answer 8

after the federalists fell bc the war of 1812, the democratic republican party led a supposed national unity

Question 9

henry clay’s american system

Answer 9

tried to unify the american economy by funding roads, canals, and transport stuffs, and also increased tariffs so us people would buy us stuff, and also the second national bank. the first failed but the last two passed.

Question 10

tallmadge amendment

Answer 10

proposed that missouri could not join as a slave state because balance btw slave and free states

Question 11

compromise of 1820, aka the missouri compromise

Answer 11

proposed by henry clay, missouri as a slave state, maine as a free state, 30 60 line

Question 12

monroe doctrine of 1823

Answer 12

established the western hemisphere as a us sphere of influence and europeans can fuck off

Question 13

market revolution

Answer 13

in the 1820s and 1830s, the linking of northern industries by southern farms, created by advances in technology, specifically, agriculture and transportation

Question 14

eerie canal

Answer 14

state funded canal that streched across new york state, led to economic success

Question 15

mass migration in the 1830s to the 1850s

Answer 15

major immigration to the northeast from germany and ireland due to famine and political instability

Question 16

cult of domesticity

Answer 16

the idea that a woman’s identity and sense of purpose revolved around childbearing and making her home a haven of rest for her husband, her husband who does all the outside stuff aka working

Question 17

panic of 1819

Answer 17

first major us recession, the people affected could not vote

Question 18

election of 1824

Answer 18

led to the split of the democratic republican party, which became the national republicans and they had a loose view, and the democrats had a strict view on things,

Question 19

corrupt bargain of 1824

Answer 19

in an act that Andrew Jackson called a “corrupt bargain”, Clay gave his vote and support to John Quincy Adams. In return for his support, Adams agreed to appoint Clay secretary of state.

Question 20

the whigs

Answer 20

a new party led by henry clay

Question 21

the nullification crisis

Answer 21

after the tariff of abomination, in 1832, south carolina decided they would nullify it, jackson threatened to use troops but eventually he just lowered the tariff

Question 22

indian removal act of 1830

Answer 22

the cherokee refused to be resettled, they signed a thing that wasn’t really legal but it matters not, and anyway yeah the people that didn’t leave voluntarily were forcibly removed

Question 23

trail of tears

Answer 23

how the natives were forcibly displaced between 1831 and 1850

Question 24

transcendentalism

Answer 24

promotes spiritual thinking over science thinking

Question 25

second great awakening

Answer 25

camp meetings and preaching preachers who preached with fervor, fairly egalitarian, more focused on temperance, abolitionism, and women’s rights than the first, also led to mormonism

Question 26

Charles G. Finney

Answer 26

was very charismatic and he preached for the moral reformation of society

Question 27

mormonism

Answer 27

joseph smith had visions and now we have mormonism. yay. polygamy, also.

Question 28

abolitionism

Answer 28

had a great acceleration and now was not limited to freed black people and quakers, garrison argued that white people should take a stance against slavery but not via violence. women often agreed with abolitionists.

Question 29

seneca falls convention

Answer 29

in 1848, the first women’s rights conference in america, where women’s equality was called for

Question 30

nat turner’s rebellion

Answer 30

in 1831, nat turner organized a slave revolt, which increased the fear of southerners of more slave rebellions

Question 31

yeoman farmers

Answer 31

independent land owners, majority of the south, as most of them did not own slaves, but they still believed in the institution of slavery