This was the type of system utilized by Jackson in order to reward his supporters after he won the elections of 1832 and 1836.
What is the spoils system?
100
These are the lesser known alternate destinations of the Underground Railroad.
What is Mexico and the Caribbean?
100
This man is credited with popularizing minstrel shows and the creation of the term "Jim Crow."
Who is Thomas Rice?
100
The 2nd Great Awakening was ultimately this type of movement.
What is a reform movement?
100
He was president during the Nullification Crisis.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
This event most contributed to the end of Jackson's hand picked successor, Martin Van Buren's, political career.
What is the Panic of 1837?
200
These are two of the three "isms" of the system of slavery utilized to justify its existence.
What are racism, paternalism, capitalism?
200
This type of cotton was responsible for making cotton "king" in the South.
What is short staple cotton?
200
This name of this group referred to religious and reform-minded people who sought to curb America’s “immoral” vices during the 2nd Great Awakening.
What is Benevolent Empire?
200
He was president during Panic of 1837.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
300
John Calhoun challenged Jackson during the Nullification Crisis by asserting that states could decide to make federal laws void by using this theory.
What is the theory of nullification?
300
The Planter class consisted of this percentage of Southern white society.
What is two percent?
300
This was how African American religion was referred to on rural plantations.
What is the "invisible institution?
300
Some historians of the 19th century point out the changes of the treatment of children. This was the common reference for children of the period, especially those from the wealthier classes, who had an actual childhood.
What is the "Century of the Child?"
300
He was president during the Panic of 1819.
Who is James Monroe?
400
This event ultimately led to the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
400
This is the other name for the "black church" of pre-Civil War America.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal or AME Church?
400
This was the popular conception of women during the 19th century. It tried to prevent the public influence of women and persuade them that “real” women only attended to the private sphere.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
400
This was why the purpose of the prison and asylum movement of the mid-19th century.
What is to reform the inhabitants?
400
He was elected during the election of 1840.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
500
Name four of the five "civilized tribes" that were targeted in the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Who are the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole, and Creek?
500
This historian wrote the work "The Peculiar Institution."
Who is Kenneth Stampp?
500
Name two three of the four parts of the "positive good" theory.
What is:
That enslaved African Americans could not take care of themselves and relied on benevolent masters to care for them.
The Bible actually condoned slavery.
The belief that African Americans were innately inferior and pointed to selective "history" and "science" to back up their claims.
That slavery was humanitarian in the 19th century.
500
What group proposed the resettlement of African-Americans who volunteered to Liberia and was viewed by some to be a better alternative to gradualism as a way to eradicate slavery.
What is the American Colonization Society?
500
He took over after the death of the shortest serving president in American history and quickly became hated by his own political party, the Whigs.