Jackson's Presidency
True or False: Jackson believed that nominating conventions were the better way to elect the president and vice president
What is true?
This part of the country was known for large farms owned by a signle individual.
What is the South?
One of the reasons for the growing divide prior to the civil war.
What is sectionalism?
True or False: The Lowell System employed large young, unmarried women
What is true?
The purpose for the Oregon Trail.
What are families in search of fertile land to start a new life?
This system allows elected representatives government jobs to political supporters and friends.
What is the Spoils System?
Jackson was the first person to use this to reward powerful friends who heped him become president.
What is the spoils system?
The first road ever built by the federal government.
What is the Cumberland Road?
This compromise created a dividing line between the non-slave and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
the number of prospectors who would strike it rich.
What is 1/100?
True or False: The South hated tariffs.
What is true?
The term used to describe too much money circulating in the American economy as a result of the federal banks printing too much
What is inflation?
The four classes in southern society.
1. Planters: Plantation owners with more than 20 slaves
2. Yeomen: Farmers of 100 acres who owned very few or no slaves
3. Free African-Americans: Free African-Americans who faced constant discrimination
4. Salves
The three parts of the Missouri Compromise.
1. Missouri joins as a Slave State
2. Maine joins as a Free State
3. Slavery would be PROHIBITED in any NEW territories or states formed north of 36°30′ latitude. (Missouri’s southern border)
The 3 main reasons people continued to move westward in the 1800s.
1. $$$$$$– own land, find work, find gold, sell goods
2. To escape debt – new start
3. To escape religious persecution
The reason most families seek land in the west.
What is the land was cheap?
What parts of the population were described using the phrase "The Common Man".
1. factory workers
2. farmers
The three parts to Henry Clay's American System.
What is...
1. Use protective tariffs
2. Continue the national bank
3. Improve roads and canals
The reasons why industrialization took place in the Northeast first.
1. Rivers for power
2. Good ports and easy access to Atlantic for shipping
3. NE had a willing labor force -subsistence farmers & immigrants
The result of the Gadsden Purchase of 1853
What is finalized the border of the Continental United States?
The year the Indian Removal Act was passed and its purpose.
What is 1830? What is required Indians to move west in order to clear the way for American settlers?
The two main ideas were at the heart of the nullifactiion crises in the South's opinion.
1. States Rights - States have rights that cannot be taken away
2. Nullification Doctrine - States have the power to nullify (reject) federal laws that are unconstitutional
The four requirements of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is...
1. The U.S. would recognize any pre-existing European colonies in the western hemisphere
2. The U.S. would not interfere in the affairs of Europe
3. The western hemisphere is off limits to any new colonization by European powers
4. Any colonization or interference by European powers is seen as an act of aggression by the U.S.
The 4 effects of the railway.
1. Railroads spurred industrial growth by giving manufacturers a cheap way to transport materials and finished products
2. Created hundreds of thousands of new jobs for railroad workers and miners
3. Boosted agricultural and fishing industries
4. Encouraged people to take jobs further away from home to to lower travel cost
The parts of the Treaty of Guadelupe-Hildago.
1. Rio Grande is the border of U.S. and Mexico
2. U.S. takes all of far Northwest Mexico
3. Mexico accepts that Texas is part of the U.S.