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Unit 5 (Part 1 out of 3)

This is Part 1 out of 3. It combines study test for chapters 14-17.



1)

The last election based on the old elitisit political system was the four-way presidential campaign of 1824 involving Jackson, Clay, Crawford, and John Quincy Adams.

 
 

2)

Henry Clay disaproved the charge of a "corrupt bargain" between himself and President Adams by refusing to accept any favors from the administration.

 
 

3)

President Adams attempted to uphold strong nationalistic principle in a time of growing support for sectionalism and states' rights.

 
 

4)

In his personal lifestyle as well as his policies, Andrew Jackson epitomized the hard-working ordinary frontiersman in contrast to the wealthy Adams and his supporters.

 
 

5)

The election campaign was notable for its focus on the issues of the tariff and democray rather on personalities and mudsliging.

 
 

6)

Jackson's victory in 1828 did represent the triumph of the West and the common people over the older elitist political system

 
 

7)

The Jacksonians put into practice their belief that oridinary citezens were capable of holding almost any public office without particular qualifications.

 
 

8)

One consequence of the spoils system was the building of powerful political machines based on jobs and sometimes corrupt rewards distributed to political supporters.

 
 

9)

The "Tariff of Abominations" was passed over the strong oppostion President Jackson.

 
 

10)

South Carolina's fierce opposition to the tariff reflected anxiety that enhanced federal power might be turned against the institution of slavery.

 
 

11)

When the Supreme Court attempted to uphold the southeastern Indians' rights, Jackson defied the Supreme Court's rulings and ordered them to be removed to Oklahoma.

 
 

12)

Jackson used his veto of the bill to the recharter the Bank of the United States to politically mobilize the common people of the West against the financial elite of the East.

 
 

13)

The Whig party was from the beggining united by its ideological support for states rights and national expansion.

 
 

14)

American settlers in Texas clashed with the Mexican government over issues of slavery, immigartion, and legal rights.

 
 

15)

William Henry Harrison's background as an ordinary frontiersman born in a log cabin formed the basis for the Whigs' appeal to the common man in 1840.

 
 

16)

The Jacksonian charge of a "Corrupt Bargain" to gain John Quincy Adams presidency arose because

 
 
 
 

17)

Which of the following was Not among the factors that made John Quincy Adam's presidency a failure?

 
 
 
 

18)

Andrew Jackson's appeal to the common people arrose partly because

 
 
 
 

19)

One political development that illistrated the new popular voice in politics was

 
 
 
 

20)

In the battle over the "Tariff of Abominations,"

 
 
 
 

21)

Under the surface of the South's strong opposition to the "Tariff of Abominations" was

 
 
 
 

22)

Some southeastern Indian tribes like the Cherokees were notable for their

 
 
 
 

23)

In promoting his policy of Indian removal, President Andrew Jackson

 
 
 
 

24)

Jackson's veto of the Bank of the United States recharter bill represented

 
 
 
 

25)

One important result of President Jackson's destruction of the Bank of the United States was

 
 
 
 

26)

Amoung the new political developments that appeared in the election of 1832 were

 
 
 
 

27)

In the immediate aftermath of the successful Texas Revolution,

 
 
 
 

28)

The Panic of 1837 and subsequent depression were caused by

 
 
 
 

29)

Prominent leaders of the Whig party included

 
 
 
 

30)

In general, the Whig party tended to favor

 
 
 
 

31)

The Second Great Awakening reversed the trends toward religious indiffernce and rationalism of the eighteeth century.

 
 

32)

The religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening broke down regional, denominational, and social-class divisions in favor of a common Christianity.

 
 

33)

The Mormon church migrated to Utah to escape perseution and to establsih a tightly organized cooperative social order without persecution.

 
 

34)

The common public schools aimed at the goal of educating all citizens in democracy, without regard to wealth.

 
 

35)

Women achieved equality with men in education before the Civil War.

 
 

36)

Many early American reformers were middle-class idealists inspired by evangelical protestanism.

 
 

37)

The key role of women in early American reform movements was undergirded by a growing "feminiztion" of the churches that spawned many efforts at social improvements.

 
 

38)

A major demand put forward by the more advanced women's-rights advocated was women's suffrage.

 
 

39)

Most early American Communal expeirments involved attempts to create a perfect society based on brotherly love and communual ownership of property.

 
 

40)

Early American science was stronger in biology, botany, and geology than it was in basic theoretical science medicine.

 
 

41)

The first American national literatyre written by Irving Cooper appeared in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution.

 
 

42)

Althogh it rejected most Americans' materialism and focus on practical concerns, transcendentalism strongly reflected American indiviidualism, love of liberty, and hostility to formal institutions and authority.

 
 

43)

Ralph Waldo Emerson taught the doctrines of simple living and non violence, while his friend Henry David Thoreau emphasized self-improvement and the development of American scholarship.

 
 

44)

The works of Walt Whitman, such as Leaves of Grass, revealed his love of democracy, the frontier, and the common people.

 
 

45)

Most early American imaginative writers and historians from the Midwest and the South.

 
 

46)

The tendency toward rationalism and indifferernce in religion was reversed about 1800 by

 
 
 
 

47)

Two denominations that especially gained afherents amoung and the common people of the West and South were

 
 
 
 

48)

The Second Great aeakening derived its religious strength especially from

 
 
 
 

49)

Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney like personal religious conversion to

 
 
 
 

50)

The term "Burned-Over District" refers to

 
 
 
 


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