What was the major result of the development of the cotton gin?
slavery revived and expanded.
100
What was the purpose behind the spoils system?
to reward political supporters with public office.
100
What was important about the Tariff of 1816?
It was the first tariff that aimed to protect American industry.
100
What is Ecological Imperialism?
the aggressive exploitation of the West's bounty
100
A dark writer whose genres included poetry, horror stories, and detective fiction was who?
Edgar Allen Poe
200
The canal era of American history began with the construction of what?
Erie Canal in New York.
200
What did President Andrew Jackson do in response to South Carolina's nullification of the Tariff of 1828?
dispatched naval and military forces to the state while denouncing nullification.
200
What was the Aroostook War?
a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada
200
Where did Texans win their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies?
The Battle of San Jacinto
200
The original prophet of the Mormon religion was who?
Joseph Smith
300
The religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were what? (2 of them)
Baptists and Methodists
300
What were the results of the Missouri Compromise?
extremists in both the North and South were not satisfied.
Missouri entered the Union as a slave state.
Maine entered the Union as a free state.
the balance between the North and South was kept even.
300
What did the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, do for the US?
United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico.
300
What was the policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes?
forced removal.
300
"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by which transcendentalist?
Henry David Thoreau.
400
New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of what issues?
prison and asylum reform.
400
What did the Force Bill of 1833 allow?
President could use the army to collect excise taxes.
400
How did Latin America react to the Monroe Doctrine?
unconcerned or unimpressed.
400
Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because of what issues?
Slavery - antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery.
400
What caused the Irish to come to America in the 1800s?
the rebellion against British rule and potato famine.
500
Where did the Mormon religion originate?
the Burned-Over District of New York.
500
Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish mostly because these immigrants were what?
Roman Catholic
500
The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called what?
Nativism
500
\What did the The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declare?
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.
500
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called what?