Jacksonian Era
James K. Polk
Tariffs/Slavery
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The Great Awakening
100
The Second Bank of the US Expires
Expansion of Suffrage
Manifest Destiny
Corrupt Bargain
All of the Above are associated with which era of US History?
Jacksonian Era
100
James K. Polk initiated a war with Mexico to achieve which goal?
AND
What treaty ended the Mexican War?
-obtain the California territory and territorial expansion
-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
100
The relative absence of enterprises engaged in manufacturing and finance prior to the Civil War in the Southern states is MOST LIKELY due to which reason?
the dependence on cotton farming in the South.
100
what effect did the Erie Canal (1825) have on the economy?
It contributed to growing the economy in towns and cities along its route
100
William Lloyd Garrison was a journalist and fought for what??
The Liberator-Urged immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States
200
In the early 1800s, many people in the United States migrated westward due to which reason?
the availability of farmland
200
What was the MOST important effect of the American victory in the War with Mexico?
Mexican Cession-1848-California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming
200
Which BEST describes the ways the United States' tariff policies between 1816 and 1860 contributed to the South's secession and the Civil War?
The United States' tariff policies favored Northern manufacturers and harmed Southern farmers
200
Why did the United States place few restrictions on immigration during the early 1800s?
industry was creating new jobs
200
Angelina and Sarah Grimke were sisters from South Carolina and are MOST notable as being 19th century
Abolitionists
300
What describes the policy adopted during the 1820s and 1830s as a permanent solution to the Native American problem?
The removal of Native Americans to the lands west of the Mississippi
Indian Removal Act of 1830-Andrew Jackson
300
This cartoon refers to a policy that intends to do what?
prevent European expansion in South America
300
Which segment of the U.S. population would have been MOST supportive of the Tariff of 1828?
Northerners who would experience increased industrial growth because of a decrease in British imports
300
As the United States acquired more land between 1803 and 1850, which controversy grew as these territories were added?
expansion of slavery
300
Tell me about the following:
-Frederick Douglass
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Sojourner Truth
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
-Frederick Douglass-advocated that slavery was morally wrong, wrote the North Star
- William Lloyd Garrison-Wrote The Liberator, wanted to abolish slavery immediately
- Sojourner Truth-A former slave, became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights
-Harriet Beecher Stowe-wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin which showed the horrors of slavery and led to other abolitionists movements
400
Why was respecting US sovereignty an important issue during this time?
sovereignty- supreme power or authority
To protect American interests and independence
400
"Whereas the Congress of the United States, by virtue of the constitutional authority vested in them, have declared by their act this day, that... a state of war exists between that Government and the United States.” President James K. Polk, May 13, 1846
In this statement, the words that Government are referring to which country?
Mexico
400
How did protective tariffs benefit American manufacturers in the early-1800s?
American-made goods were less expensive than similar imported goods.
400
- In 1790 there were six slave states; in 1860 there were 15.
- From 1790 until Congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa in 1808, Southerners imported 80,000 Africans.
- By 1860 approximately one in three Southerners was a slave.
Which invention played the GREATEST role in creating these conditions in the South during the antebellum era?
The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793.
400
The Seneca Falls convention of 1848 was the gather of who to discuss what?
Also, name one prominent leader of this movement.
Fight for Women's Rights/Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
500
Although Jackson and others wanted to annex Texas after it won it’s independence from Mexico, political leaders in the north opposed annexation for what reason?
It’s Northern politicians feared that the South would gain a political advantage because Texas would be admitted as a slave state
500
The excerpt below is from a treaty signed in 1846 between the United States and Great Britain.
From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between the United States and Great Britain terminates, the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of her Britannic Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver’s Island…
—Treaty with Great Britain (1846)
The terms of this treaty resolved a dispute between the United States and Great Britain over which of the following territories?
The Oregon Territory
500
The cotton gin, new farmlands in the west, and the demand for cotton in northern and European textile factories led to which situation?
an increase in demand for slaves in the years leading up to the Civil War.
500
"I consider the tariff act as the occasion, rather than the real cause of the present unhappy state of things. The truth can no longer be disguised, that the peculiar domestic institution of the Southern States and the consequent direction which that and her soil have given to her industry, has placed them in regard to taxation and appropriations in opposite relation to the majority of the Union, against the danger of which, if there be no protective power in the reserved rights of the states they must in the end be forced to rebel, or, submit to have their paramount interests sacrificed, their domestic institutions subordinated by Colonization and other schemes, and themselves and children reduced to wretchedness."
--John C. Calhoun, 1830
Calhoun's opinions regarding the Tariff of 1828 reflect the political philosophy behind the ______________ movement/crisis.
Nullification
500
Which answer best completes the diagram?
Components of the American System-Henry Clay