Units 1-4
T/F: There was widespread population changes in the New and Old World due to the Columbian Exchange.
True!
This is an American political party with roots as early as the 1820s. It initially featured radical democratic ideals, small government, the continuation of slavery, agriculture, and was generally hostile to American Indians and foreigners.`
Democratic Party
This is the name for any religion that believes in any rebirth or second coming for society.
Pietist
Provide three advantages enjoyed by the South.
Provide three advantages enjoyed by the North.
S: defensive position, better generals, knowledge of the terrain
N: finances, industry, population
What were some of the attitudes amongst pro and anti-slavery supporters?
Pro: protect wage earners, 10th amendment, etc
Anti: natural rights for all, too much like Britain, etc
T/F: Murray believes women are only inferior because they are not afforded the same education.
True!
This was a brief American political party in the early-19th century that split from the Democratic-Republican party; their platform featured, among other things, commercialism and protectionism.
National Republican Party
This is the name of the predominantly New England movement that rejected a literal interpretation of the Scripture, spirituality, and divinity, it’s that arguing that Jesus was a good human moral model.
Unitarian
This was the act passed in 1854 that violated the compromise of 1820 and allowed to western territories to vote for slave or free status. What event happened because of it?
Kansas-Nebraska Act leading to Bleeding Kansas
Why would the railroad openings in the North be opposed?
Because it was enabling industrialization to grow and both plantation owners and Democratic politicians would not have supported that
What was the common theme for many of the early colonies as they sought to establish themselves?
Most were successful despite high degrees of variability in form and function
Provide two characteristic features or major platform points of the Democratic-Republican Party
small-scale farming, radical democracy, pro-slavery
This was the name for the Protestant revival in the United States that took place from roughly the 1790s to the 1840s. Provide two characteristics of the movement.
Second Great Awakening
emotion, spirituality, David Walker
How were pastors justifying their side in regards to slavery in the 1850s?
North: immoral
South: biblical justification
What event in history would lead more abolitionist writers to start advocating for the abolishing of slavery before the civil war?
the end of the Whig party - who be left to oppose the democrats?
What was the view of most colonies regarding religion?
Favor religious toleration due to their past
Provide two characteristic features or major platform points of the National Republican Party AND the Whig Party.
NRP: commercialism, industrialism, protectionism
Whig: same and Protestant moralism
Which large groups of immigrants came to the US in the mid-19th century in response to civil war and unrest?
Chinese
Provide the two leading parties in America's Third Party System.
Democratic and Republican
Which political party was attempting to grow during the 1840s-1860s in response to growing immigration?
Free soil - don't want the white laborers to compete and don't want slavery to expand
T/F: An increased focus on commerce and fishing does not explain the economic increase of Northern colonies and states in the mid-to-late 18th century.
False - commerce and fishing was the reason for economic trends increasing in the north
This was a period of rapid economic change in which the United States shifted from home production for manufactured goods to wage work and the purchasing of cheap, mass-produced goods.
Market Revolution
From what area did most immigrants come from before the mid-19th century?
Northern and Western Europe
This was the previous threat of resistance or secession from the union by South Carolina in the 1830s regarding the issue of federal tariffs.
Nullification Crisis
Why did the north end up withdrawing from the military zones they had set up in the south?
costly and support for reconstruction and republicans was declining