Chapter 10 History 207A

Andrew Jackson’s inauguration was:

a large, rowdy even

As president, John Quincy Adams proposed a comprehensive plan for an activist state, which called for all of the following EXCEPT:

free homesteads for settlers on western public lands

As president, John Tyler

vetoed a bill to create a new national bank, thus angering Whigs.

Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:

revealed a sectional divide a potentially threatened the Union

By 1840, approximately ______ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote.

90

By 1860, free black men could vote on the same basis as whites only in:

five New England states

By the 1830s, the term "citizen" in America had be synonymous with the right to

vote

By the time of Jackson’s presidency, politics:

often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.

Democrats in the 1830s generally believed that:

new corporate enterprises were suspicious

During Jackson’s presidency, most Democrats did all of the following EXCEPT:

speak out against presidential use of the veto.

How did the Bank War demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of the presidency?

He identified himself as the symbolic representatives of all of the people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public

In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:

Indians were wards of the federal government

In its decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional

In response to the demand for internal improvements, President James Madison:

called for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to build roads and canals

In the 1830s Andrew Jackson believed all of the following about the Second Bank of the United States EXCEPT that:

the Bank did not allow for the issuance of enough paper money to meet national demand

In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualification for voting:

continued in Virginia because large slaveholders dominated the state’s politics

In the first half of the nineteenth century, paper money:

promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver

In the presidential election of 1824, who received the most votes but failed to win a majority of either the popular or electoral votes (requiring the House of Representatives to select a president)?

Andrew Jackson

In the presidential election of 1840:

the Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by Democrats

In the wake of the War of 1812, younger Republicans like Henry Clay and John Calhoun:

continued to support agrarianism, but believed that the nation’s economic independence required a manufacturing sector.

Many of the members of Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet, as his group of close advisors was known, were:

newspaper editors

The controversy over Peggy Eaton:

helped to enhance Martin Van Buren’s influence during the Jackson administration

The Dorr War:

pitted proponents of expanded voting rights for whites against the status quo in Rhode Island.

The Force Act of 1833:

gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs

The independence movements in Latin American between 1810 and 1822:

paralleled in some ways the independence movement that created the United States.

The key insights to Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America was that:

American democracy really represented an important cultural shift

The Monroe Doctrine

declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization

The national political parties for the second American party system were:

Democrats and Whigs

The nullification crisis ended:

with a compromise tariff

The nullification crisis

involved the fears of some slaveholders that the federal government might take action against slavery

The Panic of 1819:

prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors, but hurt creditors.

The Panic of 1837:

was caused, in part, by a decline of British demand for American cotton.

The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called

the spoils system

The primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:

that both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage

The Second Bank of the United States was created:

by Congress in 1816, with the support of President Madison

The term "Era of Good Feelings" refer to the period of American history when:

there seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:

supported the rights of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820:

the remaining Louisiana purchase terrify was divided into slave free zones

What was President Martin Van Buren’s new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal government’s relationship to banking?

He proposed that federal funds by controlled by government officials rather than by bankers.

What Indian nation fought a war with the U.S. army from 1835 to 1842 to resist removal to the West?

Seminole

Which is NOT true about the Whigs?

The Whigs’ strongest support came from the lower Northwest and the southern backcountry

Which of the following did NOT happen during the election of 1828?

Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the "corrupt bargain" of 1824.

Which of the following is NOT true of John Quincy Adams?

He was a firm believer in strict construction of the Constitution

Which of the following statements about Martin Van Buren is FALSE?

A graduate of Harvard, he was known for his sterling intellectual accomplishments.

Who argued in a famous debate with South Carolina’s Robert Hayne that the people, not the states, created the Constitution?

Daniel Webster

Who was the president of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832?

Nicholas Biddle

Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830s as the most prominent spokeman for the right of nullification?

John C. Calhoun

Whose 1840 presidential campaign portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin and liked to drink hard cider?

William Henry Harrison

Why was a second Missouri Compromise necessary

Missouri’s state constitution barred free blacks from entering the state.

Women writers benefited from:

the growth of the reading public, part of the democratization of American life.

"Hard money" in the 1830s referred to:

gold and silver, also called "specie."