Important People
John Quincy Adams
True or false:
President Jackson and the Democrats opposed having a national bank and wanted a simple government with less control of the people.
True
True or false:
Violence broke out during land disputes because settlers borrowed land from Native Americans and did not treat them as made in God's image.
False
What is the attitude that places man's reason above the truth of God's Word?
rationalism
What was scarce and led to more railroad tracks being laid and the steam powered locomotive to be made?
roads
One of the first presidents to come from a poor family.
Andrew Jackson
President Jackson's high tariffs caused which group of people to pay more for foreign goods?
Southerners
What did President Jackson sign as a way to move Native Americans from their homeland and gain more land for the United States?
The Indian Removal Act
Finding faith through your feelings and senses rather than in God's Word is known as ______.
transcendentalism
These provided a better way for shipping goods across the country and did not need wind, water currents or man power to run them.
Steamboats
The president who believed in Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk
This person developed a tariff that gradually lowered the people's cost of foreign goods.
Henry Clay
Which Native American group took their case to the Supreme Court because they opposed President Jackson's Indian Removal Act?
Cherokee
This person graduated from Yale and then founded an institute to train young men to be preachers.
Asahel Nettleton
What two inventions improved the factory system?
sewing machine and interchangeable parts
He held the most important position in the House of Representatives and influenced the election results in 1824.
Henry Clay
When president Jackson decided to do away with the national bank, what did he put in its place?
state banks
What did John Quincy Adams write about the nation's actions against Native Americans?
They were sins that would be judged
What was the Second Great Awakening?
God answered prayers by sending a widespread revival throughout the United States.
What three inventions improved farming?
The cotton gin, the steel plow, and the reaper
The president of Yale who faithfully preached to students.
Timothy Dwight
What state's citizens did John C. Calhoun say had the right to refuse to obey Jackson's tariff law because it was hurting them?
South Carolina
Who was the chief justice who ruled in favor of the Cherokee Indians?
What were two problems with Charles Finney's teachings?
He denied that people are born sinners,
He denied that Christ died in the place of sinners
He denied that people are justified by faith alone
He taught that salvation is a reward for following the good example of Jesus
He said people do not need any help from God to be saved
Who invented a way to make communication faster and what was his invention?
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph