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| The inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829 was significant because it: |
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| Signified the empowermen of a heretofore disenfranchised class of Amercians by allowing them to trash the White House |
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| After the Dorr Rebellion in the early 1840's, the state legislature of Rhode Island |
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| rewrote the constitution to allow more men to vote |
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| The most significant proponent of the "Nullification Doctrine" was |
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| The theory of nullification was based on writings of |
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| James Madison and Thomas Jefferson |
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| The theory of nullification is based on the principle that |
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| a state can nullify a federal law |
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| Significant conflict arose between Jackson and his cabinet over |
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| In response to South Carolina's vote to nullify the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832, President Andrew Jackon took all of the following actions |
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got congress to give him a force bill
sent revenue ships to Charleston |
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| The author of the Compromise Tariff that ended the Nullification Crisis was |
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| The Indian tribe that most successfully resisted removal was |
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| The Bank of the United States benefitted the United States economy by |
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issuing bank notes
holding government funds
restraining policies of the state banks |
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| To reduce the influence of the Bank of the United States, Roger Taney followed the policy of |
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| Remvoing federal funds from the Bank of the United States and putting them in state banks |
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| The president of the Bank of the United States responded to Andrew Jackson's attempts to kill the bank by |
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| raising interest rates and tightening credits |
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| The "Bank War" of the 1830's was to a large extent |
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| a struggle for power between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle |
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| The Charles River Bridge case of 1837 dealt with the issue of |
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| The creation of a second party system in the 1830's produced compeition between the |
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| The "Great Triumvirate" of the early Whig party included all of the following men |
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| The Whig Presidential candidate in the election of 1836 was |
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| The most important legislation passed during the Van Buren administration was the |
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| Sub Treasury Bill also called the Independent Treasury Bill |
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| Van Buren responded to the Panic of 1837 withthe idea of the independent treasury, which was |
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| the assistant of regional banks |
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| After Harrison's death the office of president was taken over by |
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| During the late 1830's and 1840's, diplomatic realtions with Great Britain were tense for all of the following reasons |
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Creole
Alexand McCloud and the Caroline
Maine and New Brunswick, Canda |
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| In the 1830's, the National Republicans began to call themselves by the name ? |
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| The ? was the practice of rewarding government jobs to faithful party members. |
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| Spoils System (patronage) |
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| ? was Andrew Jackson's first vice president |
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| President Jackson's unofficial political advisors became known as the |
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| The ? Indians were known as the 5 civilized tribes |
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Cherokee
Creek
Seminole
Chickasaw
Choctaw |
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| The ? was the name given to the route the Cherokee Indians took to their reservation in Oklahoma in 1838 |
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Trail of Tears
Trail where they cried |
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| During Andrew Jackson's long war with the second Bank of the United States, ? was the bank's president |
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| During the "Bank War," Andrew Jackson shifted the federal money to state financial institutions that became known as ? |
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| Andrew Jackson issued the ?, a presidential order tha specified all public land sales must be paid for in hard currency. |
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| The political campaign that helped to elect William Henry Harrison to the presidency of the United States acquried the name of the ? |
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| In 1841, slaves seized control of the American ship, ?, and sailed to the Bahamas, where British officials declared them free. |
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| British citizen ? was tried for murder in New York as a result of ? affair involving an American ship |
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Alexander McCloud
the Caroline |
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| The "Aroostook War" involved |
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Maine
New Brunswick, Canada |
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| The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 ended a chance of war between |
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| United States and Great Britian |
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| The Treaty of Wang Hya (1844) gave the United States |
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most favored status
extraterritoriality |
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| The development of the North and the South differed in that the South had |
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fewer cities
fewer people
fewer banks
fewer railroads
fewer factories |
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| The South did little to creat a flourishing commercial or industrial economy because |
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| its people had their money tied up in agriculture |
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| The Southern planter class |
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| dominated the political, economic, and social life of the region |
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| Many non-slaves owning whites in the South were tied to the slave system by all of the following circumstances |
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| they depend on the plantations for economic favors, they were often related by blood to wealthy slave owners, they shared the Soutehr belief in white racial superiority |
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| The slave system was characterized by |
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| considerable varitey in the conditions under which slaves lived |
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| The material condition of some slaves in the South was ? |
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| better than some Nothern factory workers. |
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| In the 1850's, the price of a prime field hand slave was about |
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| Southern slaves could attain freedom by all of the following methods |
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escape
purchase
manumission |
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| In the 1800's, upper South states like Virginia and Maryland continued to rely on the cultivation of |
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| In the mid-1800's, the principle means of heavy transportation in most parts of the South was |
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| White Southerners often referred to slavery as the |
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| The two methods of assigning slave labor on a plantation were the ? and the ? |
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| Gang System and Task system |
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| In 1831, ? led a slave revolt in Virginia that killed more than sixty whites |
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| The cultural nationalism of American intellectuals of the 1800's generally |
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| celebrated the uniqueness of the American democratic spirit |
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| The best-known novel of James Fennimore Cooper featured the tales of the |
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| fronteirsmen in the American wilderness |
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| Walt Whitman expressed his love of American democracy and individuality by means of |
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| Herman Melville created the epic tale of Captain Ahab's obsession with the pursuit of the great white whale in the novel |
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| Edgar Allan Poe's works emphasized the theme of the |
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| significance of pain and horror |
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| The New England transcendentalists called for |
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| the use of emotion and institution to go beyond the confines of the understanding |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalist philosophy included all of the following beliefs |
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an intimate connection between man and nature
the sanctity of the individual
self-reliance and independence of spirit |
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| Henry David Thoreu argued that it was necessary for individuals to |
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| practice civil disobedience when laws were unjust |
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| In the 1820's and 1830's, Protestant revival evangelists like Charles Grandson Finney |
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| proclaimed the possibility of salvation for all by individul effort, called for a crusade against personal immorality, worked for reform of the larger society |
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| The temperance movement of the 1800's featured |
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| confessions of alcoholics about their disastrous lives, testimony by women on the abusive behavior of their drunken husbands, efforts to restrict the avilabilty of liquor by the state legislation |
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| Horance Mann was the cheif leader in the movement for |
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| Before the Civil War, the public education system was most extensive in the |
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| Before the Civil War, the United States education system had |
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| helped to achieve one of the highest literacy rates in the world |
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| The asylum movement of the 1800's incorporated the principle of |
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| firm, yet humane, treatment to rehabilitate the criminal and insane in a measure of solitude |
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| In the 1840's and 1850's, reformers advocated the creation of reservations for Native Americans with the primary intent of |
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| providing a place where Native Americans could preserve their traditions free from white interference |
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| The most prominent black abolitionist of the 1850's was |
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| The cheif objective of the "free soil" movement was to |
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| prevent the spread of slavery into the territories |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe provided the most effective piece of abolitionist propaganda with her novel |
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| The most famous of the white abolitionists was ?, who believe in the immediate abolition of slavery |
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| The orgainization of abolitionists who helped runaway slaves find refuge in teh North or in Canada was known as the ? |
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| Despite earlier efforts to settle the issue, the slavery question became a major issue in the 1840's and 1850's because the |
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| nation was expanding to the West |
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| Almost all of teh supporters of Manifest Destiny agreed that |
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| Americans had a God-given right to expand their superior civilization into new territory |
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| Teh initial migration of American settlers to Texas was encouraged by the |
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| The victorious commanding general at the Battle of San Jacinto was |
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| Just before Texas became a U.S. state in 1845, Texas was |
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| In the 1840's the Oregon Country's owernership remained in dispute between the United States and |
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| The U.S. government helped precipitate a crisis with Mexico by |
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| deploying an army in a disputed border area |
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| According to President Polk , war withe mexico began when |
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| mexican troops crossed the rio grande and attacked american troops |
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| the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo included all the following provisions |
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u.s. pays mexico $15 million
mexico gives up all claims to Texas
border is set at rio grande river
u.s. agree to pay all debts to mexico citizens in that territory |
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| In teh election of 1848, the major candidates for president included all of the following men |
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louis cass
zackary taylor
maritn van buren |
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| The application for california statehood caused turmoil in congress becaues |
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| it would upset the balance between the balance of the slave and free states in the senate |
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| The 1850 legislation that aimed at resolving all the sectional issues in one compromise package was introduced by |
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| henry clay called the omnibus bill |
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| became law after senator douglas maneuvered it through congress in several pieces |
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| stephen douglas' intention in introducing the kansas-nebraska bill seems to have been so |
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| the trans-continental railroad would be built out of chicago |
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| "bleeding kansas" gained its reputation for the violence cause by the |
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| In 1836 the texans defeated the army led by the mexican dictator, ?, at the battle of san jacinto |
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| the first president of texas, ?, immediately requested annexation by the u.s. |
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| the ? stretched westward for 2000 miles from independence, missouri, through the south pass of the rocky mountains |
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| the ? connected independence, missouri, with the tradign center of new mexico |
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| the people who migrated to california in a hurry during the california gold rush was known as the |
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| ? was elected president in 1852 |
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| ? was elected president in 1856 |
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| after this case the republicans vowed that when they elected a president he would appoint anti-slavery judges who would rule slavery out of existence |
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| the turning points in regard to battles in the civil war were |
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vicksburg-after this fell union controlled the mississippi
gettysburg-after this south had little to no chance of winning the east |
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| president lincoln's reconstruction plan was |
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| leninet, but he got shot and died before it played out |
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| the first congressional reconstruction plan was |
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called wade-davis bill
not lenient |
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| the presidnet who followed lincoln was |
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