As president, Andrew Jackson favored |
a limited federal government and the establishment of a federal Indian policy to remove the Indians |
The election of 1828 differed from earlier elections in its emphasis on issues related to scandal and character partly because |
John Quincy Adams was associated with the "corrupt bargain" of 1824 |
Because of their distrust of the economic elite, Andrew Jackson and many of his followers wanted to |
end government support for business, thereby encouraging individual liberties and economic opportunities |
The market revolution experienced by Americans after the War of 1812 |
brought increasing numbers of people out of old patterns of rural self-sufficiency into the wider realm of national market relations |
One of the precipitating causes of the panic! of 1837 was |
that the Bank of England began call in loans made to American merchants |
Relatively few white Northerners got involved in the campaign to eradicate slavery because |
even though they may have viewed slavery as counterproductive or immoral, they tended to be racists |
Van Buren pushed for an independent treasury system, funded by government deposits, which would |
deal only in hard money |
Employees of early textile mills in New England were |
mainly young women who left rural farms and flocked to factory towns in the hope of gaining more autonomy |
By 1845, the American Temperance Union and other temperance advocates |
had succeeded in decreasing alcohol consumption in the United States |
One of the most radical reform movements of the 1830s was the |
effort to abolish slavery |
Funding for transportation improvements in America between 1815 and 1840 came mostly from |
private and state funding |
The doctrine of nullification outlined by John C. Calhoun in response to the Tariff of Abominations argued that |
the Union was a voluntary confederation of states that had yielded only some fo their power to the federal government, and when Congress overstepped its powers, states had the right to nullify Congress’ acts |
A hallmark of the Jacksonian era was |
a faith that people and societies can shape their own destinies. |
The Second Great Awakening |
brought forth an outpouring of evangelical religious fervor that offered salvation to the less than perfect |
The nationally circulated Advocate of Moral Reform was a |
newspaper published by women that took men to task for the sexual sin of frequenting prostitutes and perpetuating prostitution. |
The most horrifying hazard faced by people traveling on steamboats in the early nineteenth century was |
being injured or killed by the frequent boiler explosions. |
Newspapers became crucial to party politics in Jacksonian America because: |
Many newspapers were under the control of a particular political party and actively pushed that party’s agenda |
the first railroad lines in the united states were |
generally short and not yet an efficient distribution system for goods |
Andrew Jackson set an important political precedent when he selected his cabinet by |
excluding members of political factions that were not loyal to him |
Steamboats had a detrimental effect on the environment because they |
led to deforestation and air pollution |
The infamous Trail of Tears was |
a 1,200-mile forced march by Cherokees who were expelled from their land |
After 1815, the idea of separate spheres and separate duties for men and women was strengthened by the fact that |
men’s work was newly disconnected from the home and increasingly brought cash to the household |
Black Hawk’s resistance to removal from Illinois led to |
his capture and the massacre of some 400 of his people |
in the presidential election of 1836, three whig candidates to run in his place |
because each candidate had a solid popular regional base but none had the support of all regions |
Lawyers of the 1820s and 1830s created the legal foundation for an economy that gave priority to |
ambitious individuals interested in maximizing their own wealth. |
Alcohol consumption in America in the decades up to 1830 was |
widespread, rising, and often tended toward abusive amounts |
In the 1820s and 1830s, shoe binding, an important component of shoe manufacturing, was |
comparatively low-paying work performed by women at home. |
Angelina Grimké, Sarah Grimké, and Maria Stewart, women lecturers who conveyed a powerful antislavery message, encountered hostility in the North because |
they affronted a rigid cultural norm by speaking in public and presuming to instruct men |
As a result of his lopsided win in the election of 1832, Andrew Jackson tried to |
destroy the Bank of the United States before its charter expired, a process he began by removing federal deposits from the bank and depositing them in Democratic-leaning banks throughout the country |
Between 1828 and 1836, the second American party system took shape; it |
was, by 1836, a fully functioning, national, two-party political system |
High rates of voter participation continued into the 1840s and 1850s because |
politics remained the arena where different choices about economic development and social change were contested |
A positive effect of the economic turmoil of Jackson’s second administration was that from 1835 to 1837, for the first and only time in U.S. history |
the government had a surplus of money |
The spread of public schools in the 1820s and 1830s made education more accessible to students and affected teaching by |
initiating a shift toward hiring women as cheap instructors. |
Canals were an important innovation in the early nineteenth century because |
they allowed cheaper transport by virtue of greatly increased loads |
In 1830, President Jackson convinced Congress to pass legislation that |
forced Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi and opened up about 100 million acres of land for white settlers |
In large measure, the panic! of 1819 occurred as a result of |
a contraction of the money supply and plummeting prices of commodities |
In the economy of Jacksonian America, bankers |
all of the above |
Henry Clay wanted to force the issue of the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States before the presidential election of 1832 because he hoped to |
force Andrew Jackson into an unpopular veto on the issue in order to secure support for Clay as president |
A compelling reason underlying South Carolina’s argument for nullification in 1828 was that |
a Northern-dominated federal government might decide to end slavery, which would threaten the very foundation of the South’s economic system |
In Advice to American Women, Mrs. A. J. Graves represented the new ideas about gender relations in Jacksonian America in her support for the concept of |
separate spheres for men and women, based on the middle-class notion that women had a unique contribution to make in the home as more men ventured into the competitive world of market relations |
For workers in early Massachusetts factories, wages were |
low because workers were easily replaced. |
A typical pattern for boys not remaining on the farm in the 1820s and 1830s was to |
Leave school at the age of 14 and become either an apprentice in a trade or an entry-level clerk |
After 1828, political leaders considered the development of political parties to be: |
An effective way to encourage vote loyalty that transcended specific candidates and elections |
In support of the doctrine of nullification, South Carolina’s leader pointed to |
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 |
An important transition in American politics took place during the Jacksonian era as |
different campaigning tactics and increasingly democratic rhetoric made it necessary for candidates to appeal to common people |
In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Supreme Court ruled that the |
Cherokees in Georgia existed as "a distinct community, occupying its own territory, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force." |
In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison launched |
the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper advocating an immediate end to slavery. |
The leading exemplar of the Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, insisted that |
Americans "vote in the Lord Jesus Christ as the governor of the universe." |
One of the key elements in the political landscape of Jacksonian America was the upsurge of universal white male suffrage, |
as most states abolished property qualifications for voting. |
From 1800 to 1820, church membership in the US |
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