Unit 4

Question 1

Act passed by Congress in 1807 prohibiting American ships from leaving for any foreign port

Answer 1

Embargo Act of 1807

Question 2

Members of Congress, predominantly from the South and West, who aggressively pushed for a war against Britain after their election in 1810

Answer 2

War Hawks

Question 3

Decisive American War of 1812 victory over British troops in January 1815 that ended any British hopes of gaining control of the lower Mississippi River Valley

Answer 3

Battle of New Orleans

Question 4

War fought between the U.S. and Britain from June 1812- January 1815, largely over British restrictions on American shipping

Answer 4

War of 1812

Question 5

Treaty signed in December 1814 between the U.S. and Britain that ended the War of 1812

Answer 5

Treaty of Ghent

Question 6

Declaration by President James Monroe in 1823 that the Western Hemisphere was to be closed off to further European colonization and that the U.S. would not interfere in the internal affairs of European nations

Answer 6

Monroe Doctrine

Question 7

The period from 1817-1823 in which the disappearance of the Federalists enabled the Republicans to govern in a spirit of seemingly nonpartisan harmony

Answer 7

Era of Good Feelings

Question 8

Sectional compromise in Congress in 1820 that admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the northern Louisiana Purchase territory

Answer 8

Missouri Compromise

Question 9

Laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights of citizenship to free black people before the Civil War

Answer 9

Black codes

Question 10

The most carefully devised slave revolt in which rebels planned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other salves, and 75 conspirators were executed

Answer 10

Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy

Question 11

Slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, organized a thousand slaves for an attack on Richmond, VA in 1800

Answer 11

Gabriel’s Rebellion

Question 12

The organization and supervision of slave field hands into working teams in southern plantations

Answer 12

Gang system

Question 13

Uprising of slaves in Southampton County, VA in the summer of 1831 led by ____ that resulted in the death of 55 white people

Answer 13

Nat Turner’s revolt

Question 14

Revolution in the means and organization of production

Answer 14

Industrial Revolution

Question 15

Religious revival among black and white southerners in the 1790s

Answer 15

Second Great Awakening

Question 16

Independent farmers of the South, most of whom lived on family-sized farms

Answer 16

Yeoman

Question 17

Sectional crisis in the early 1830s in which a states’ rights party in South Carolina attempted to nullify federal law

Answer 17

Nullification Crisis

Question 18

Political party formed in the 1820s under the leadership of Andrew Jackson; favored states’ rights and a limited role for the federal government

Answer 18

Democrats

Question 19

President Andrew Jackson’s measure that allowed state officials to override the federal protection of Native Americans

Answer 19

Indian Removal Act

Question 20

1832 war in which federal troops in Illinois militia units defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians led by ____

Answer 20

Black Hawk

Question 21

The forced march in 1838 of the Cherokee Indians from their homelands in Georgia to the Indian Territory of the West

Answer 21

Trail of Tears

Question 22

Supreme Court decision of 1803 that created the precedent of judicial review by ruling as unconstitutional part of the Judiciary Act of 1789

Answer 22

Marburg v. Madison

Question 23

The political struggle between President Andrew Jackson and the supporters of the Second Bank of the United States

Answer 23

Bank War

Question 24

Proclamation issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 stipulating that only gold or silver could be used as payment for public land

Answer 24

Specie Circular

Question 25

The outcome of three interrelated developments: rapid improvements in transportation, commercialization, and industrialization

Answer 25

Market revolution

Question 26

Production of goods in private homes under the supervision of a merchant who “____ __” the raw materials, paid a certain sum per finished piece, and sold the completed its to a distant market

Answer 26

Putting-out system

Question 27

The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 calling for full female equality, including the right to vote

Answer 27

Declaration of Sentiments

Question 28

The first convention for women’s equality in legal rights, held in upstate NY in 1848

Answer 28

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 29

Reform movement originating in the 1820s that sought to eliminate the consumption of alcohol

Answer 29

Temperance

Question 30

Antiprostitution group founded by evangelical women in NY in 1834

Answer 30

Female Morale Reform Society

Question 31

The followers of Mother Ann Lee, who preached a religion of strict celibacy and communal living

Answer 31

Shakers

Question 32

An organization, founded in 1817 by antislavery reformers, that called for gradual emancipation and the removal of freed blacks to Africa

Answer 32

American Colonization Society

Question 33

The first antislavery political party, formed in 1840

Answer 33

Liberty Party

Question 34

A fraternal organization of artisans begun in the 1780s that evolved into a key organization of the new mass politics in NYC

Answer 34

Tammany Society

Question 35

Doctrine, first expressed in 1845, that the expansion of white American across the continent was inevitable and ordained by God

Answer 35

Manifest Destiny

Question 36

Overland trail of more than 2,000 miles that carried American settlers from the Midwest to new settlements in Oregon, CA, and Utah

Answer 36

Oregon Trail