US History Exam 5

In what way was the United States more democratic than anywhere else in the world during the first half of the nineteenth century?

In what way was the United States more democratic than anywhere else in the world during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Franchise qualifications

Why did several eastern states expand suffrage in the 1810s?

They wanted to discourage westward migration.

Which of the following statements characterizes the American political system directly after the American Revolution?

Notables managed local elections through their personal connections.

 What did bankers, land speculators, and entrepreneurs in the 1820s to the 1840s have in

Common?

They demanded government assistance for their business enterprises

The power of elected officials to grant government jobs to party members in return for their loyalty is known as which of the following systems?

Patronage

Which of the following were the three key elements of Clay’s American system?

Protective tariffs, renewal of the National Bank, and internal improvements

What was the outcome of President John Quincy Adams’ support of the Creeks in their treaty negotiations with the state of Georgia?

Georgia's governor attacked him as a "public enemy" and "ally of the savages."

How did President Andrew Jackson change the federal system of office holding?

Jackson introduced the principle of rotation in office to discourage long tenure.

In 1832, a South Carolina state convention committed which of the following actions?

Declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state

How did Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina’s claimed right of nullification in 1832?

He asked Congress for a Force Bill authorizing him to use the military to suppress any act of nullification.

Which of the following was the primary function of the Second Bank of the United States?

Declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state

 Why did Andrew Jackson veto the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States in 1832

 He thought it interfered with the rights of states and the liberties of the people

Sequoyah developed which of the following to assimilate members of the Cherokee tribe into American life

A perfected system of writing for the Cherokee language

 In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Worcester v. Georgia (1832), John Marshall and the Court majority issued a decision that

upheld Indian nations' political authority in their communities

Which of the following statements describes the impact of the Jacksonian-era constitutional revolution on the states

Between 1830 and 1860, twenty states revised their charters and enhanced democracy

Which of the following describes the ruling by the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court in Mayor of New York v. Miln?

The Taney Court ruled that New York State could inspect the health of arriving immigrants.

 On which issue was the Whig philosophy of the 1830s critically different from that of the Federalists in the 1790s?

Rule by an elite based on talent 

. Which of the following developments spurred the Panic of 1837?

The Bank of England curtailed British investment in the United States

President Martin Van Buren responded to the Panic of 1837 by

 adopting a hands-off, limited-government stance.

ohn C. Calhoun challenged the northern Whig economic ideology by arguing

 that advanced civilizations always had antagonism between workers and capitalists

What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?

Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family.

Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

The Second Great Awakening

The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?

people should reject old conventions and discover their original relation with nature.

enry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?

The Transcendentalist

Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?

They wanted to combine farming with study and a lively intellectual life

In the late 1840s and the 1850s, Emersonians did which of the following?

Abandoned their quest to create new social institutions

Which of the following contributed to the harassment and persecution of Mormons at 

Mormons power as a voting bloc in local elections

Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?

They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy.

 Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?

Immigration

 Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?

Minstrel Shows

Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s?

They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism.

In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?

He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed.

Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?

Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented.

 Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?

He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery.

Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?

 Aid to fugitive slaves

 Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth Century?

Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.

The public movement for women’s rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

The Second Great Awakening 2

Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey’s Lady’s Book and Catharine Beecher’s Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following? 

Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticity

 During the 1840s, American women’s rights activists focused on which of the following goals?

Strengthening the legal rights of married women