Ch 10. Transforming the Political Culture 1820 - 1840

Whig leaders feared the Democrats would open the doors of government to men that were

unrefined.

Which of the following seemed to ratify Gen. Andrew Jackson's commitment to the "common man"?

his journey from the West to D.C.

Approximately how high was the new tariff the Adams administration imposed on certain imported manufacturers such as cotton cloth and iron goods in 1825?

35 percent

Like many workingmen of the early republic, Thomas Skidmore grew up in a poor family in

New England.

How did the southern Whigs try to change the slaveholding establishment?

They wanted a more entrepreneurial planter elite.

Approximately how many voters participated in the presidential elections of 1828?

1,000,000

Which of the following terms would NOT have been a fit for Andrew Jackson's personality and presidency?

spoils

President Andrew Jackson made all of the following statements in his veto message against the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States, EXCEPT:

The Constitution had only given states the authority to establish banks.

Challenging the establishment of families like the Clintons in New York, which of the following won two thirds of seats in an 1821 constitutional convention?

Bucktails

According to Daniel Webster from Massachusetts, the republic was

a compact of citizens.

Andrew Jackson found himself a prisoner of war as a young man during which war?

the Revolutionary War

Which of the following best characterizes the concept of a separate sphere in early nineteenth century America?

the confinement of women in family homes

Urban social reformers siphoned off some working-class discontent into which of the following movements?

temperance

South Carolinians drew on which precedent for their articulation of a doctrine of nullification in 1828?

the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Americans in the early nineteenth century were convinced that democracies were inherently

unstable.