Early American Government
What are the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans?
This president benefited from the expansion of white male suffrage and the inclusion of western states in the Union. His party supported states' rights, opposed a national bank, and made liberal use of the spoils system.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
They had a hands-off approach to regulating businesses and/or the economy.
This movement can be described in the following ways: a movement comprise of mainly middle-class white Protestants, a lot of them women. It advocated for reform on every level of government, desired to combat the unchecked wealth and power and corruption of the Gilded Age, cared about the conditions of immigrants and the poor and laborers, were influenced by the "social gospel" and influenced by the general trend in the business world toward greater efficiency.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This president became president after FDR died in office; he dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and desegregated the army (although after WWII)
This president passed the Alien and Sedition Acts and oversaw the Quasi-War with France.
Who is John Adams?
This is the political party that arose during the 1830s to consolidate opposition to a specific president. They were a loose coalition that tended to believe in government activism, especially in the case of social issues. They were generally deeply religious and supported the temperance movement, but their defining characteristic was their opposition to the other major political party.
Who are the Whigs?
This political party opposed can be characterized in the following ways: they wanted to nationalize banks, railroads, and grain wholesalers. They wanted more government oversight over businesses. They were a follow up to the Grange Movement. They were sometimes called free silverites or bimetallists because they supported changing to the silver standard. They were primarily an agrarian movement, made of farmers in the southern and western states.
What is the Populist Party?
This was a pro-imperialist, Progressive, conservationist president, who was known as a trust-buster and talked about a "Square Deal" and a Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This president was the first Republican president in 20 years in 1953; he was pro-business, passed the National Defense of Education Act (NDEA) after Sputnik was launched, created NASA, and passed the Interstate Highway Act.
Who is Dwight D. Einsenhower?
This political party supported states' rights, didn't like the Bank of the United States, took a strict constructionist view of the Constitution, were more pro-France and association more with southerners and agrarianism and Thomas Jefferson.
Who are the Democratic Republicans?
Who are the Whigs?
The compromise that allowed this president to become president ended the military presence in the post-Civil War south and is what most historians use to mark the end of the Reconstruction era in general.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Who is Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt.
This president's domestic agenda is most similar to FDR's New Deal? Name the president and the agenda.
What is Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society?
Who is John Quincy Adams
These three political parties were all parties created in the antebellum era. The first was founded after the Wilmot Proviso and contained many abolitionists, the second was a nativist party that was anti-Catholic and anti-Irish and anti-immigration, the third was a party founded in the 1850s that espoused that slavery should not spread west into new territories and was the party of Abraham Lincoln. (Please name them in order).
What were the Free Soil Party, the Know Nothing (or American) party, and the Republican Party?
This president's assassination by a supporter who felt he was owed a job is what led to the passage of the Pendleton Act, which attempted to make civil service jobs be based on merit rather than loyalty by creating a civil service test.
Who is James Garfield?
In post-WWI era, the three president that were president ran on a 'return to normalcy' idea that returned American to an isolationist, pro-business, and non-progressive state. Name these three presidents in order of their presidencies.
Who is William Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover?
Who is Richard Nixon?
This event took place during the War of 1812 and spelled the end of the Federalist Party.
What is the Hartford Convention of 1814?
The first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This president was president during the Spanish-American War, was pro-imperialist, and did not grant the Philippines their independence after the war because he did not think they could sustain their own independence.
Who is William McKinley?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a Democrat) became president during the 1930s Great Depression and also oversaw WWII. His presidency also marked a significant shift in the demographics of the two major political parties (Republicans and Democrats). Name this major demographic shift.
African Americans had generally been Republican since the time of Reconstruction (remember Republicans are the party of Lincoln and Republicans were initially the ones who fought for expansion of African American rights during Reconstruction, whereas the South was dominated by the Democrats, including former slaveowners). However, even though certain aspects of FDR’s New Deal (e.g. AAA) left African American out (FDR did not want to risk his support from Southern Dems), many African Americans switched their allegiance from Republicans to Democrats during this time. They had an ally in First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes; FDR would consult his “Black Cabinet” and since FDR’s policies were aimed at helping the poor and working class, many African Americans believe these policies were ultimately to their benefit. This largely remains true today; for example, from 2012-2020, the percentage of African American voters who voted for a Democratic president was 90% or higher.
This president had notable accomplishments such as the Camp David Accords but also notable struggles like the rising inflation and cost of oil and the Iran-Hostage crisis.
Who is Jimmy Carter?