People
Commerce and Tariffs
Emigration
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
100
Who was an old-line Republican in a Democratic nation?
Who is John Quincy Adams?
100
A tariff is:
What is a duty or tax that a government imposes on imports and exports?
100
Why did people move to the west?
To become wealthier
100
What did the Senate pass regarding Missouri's admission as a state?
a compromise bill, Missouri slave state, Maine free state
100
What is the Nullification doctrine?
if one state deemed a law unconstitutional, it did not have to follow that law
200
Who was part of the natural aristocracy?
Who are people distinguished by others as having talent?
200
What is mercantile trade?
What is having to do with the buying and selling of goods? (it allowed small farmers to trade between regions and states)
200
What was religious individualism?
salvation is between God and man alone
200
Why did South Carolina dislike the tariff?
they relied on foreign goods
200
What are custom duties?
taes paid on goods brought into country from foreign parts
300
Which president forced the natives onto the trail of tears?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
What was the purpose of the proposed tariff?
What is to make American products cheaper?
300
What was the Second Great Awakening?
religious movement characterized by emotion
300
What is this?
What is the cotton gin?
300
How did Jackson respond to S. Carolina's insubordination?
sent officials to enforce custom duties
threatened to send troops
400
Robert Fulton invented what?
What is the first steam powered boat, the Clermont?
400
How did interest in commercial activity impact American life? (2 ways)
What is:
1) increased literacy rates
2) new roads and canals
3) new inventions to help commerce
400
What is the idea that your nation is the best?
nationalism (it made priests not like each other)
400
What was Calhoun convinced of regarding the tariff of 1828?
tariffs were bringing poverty to south
400
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
only U.S. could expand on North America
500
Who condemned nullification and secession, saying that they would destroy the union?
Who is Daniel Webster?
500
Why were banks preferred to personal loans?
Because:
1) no inequality between parties
2) no respect owed
3) bank transaction was a business deal
500
Was the concern regarding American Catholics that they would break of from Rome?
Yes
500
Which side were the Republicans on for the bank?
pro-bank
500
What was the Indian Removal Act?
sent on journey to Trail of Tears?