Question 1

The key insight of alexis de tocqueville's tocqueville on democracy was that:

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American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.

Question 2

In its decision in MulCulloch v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:

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The second bank of the U.S. Was constitutional.

Question 3

By the time of Jacksons presidency, politics:

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Often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.

Question 4

The Dorr war:

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Divided Rhode Islanders over the issue of expanding voting rights for white men.

Question 5

Andrew Jacksons inauguration was:

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A large, rowdy event.

Question 6

The nullification crisis:

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Involved the fears of some slave holders that the federal government might take action against slavery.

Question 7

The controversy over Peggy eaton:

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Helped to enhance Martin Van Buren's influence during the Jackson administration.

Question 8

Under the Missouri compromise of 1820:

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The remaining Louisiana purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones.

Question 9

Democrats in the 1830's generally believed that:

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New corporate enterprises were suspicious.

Question 10

The term Era of good feelings refers to the period of American history when:

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There seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration.

Question 11

The practice of giving a political office to someone based on party loyalty is called:

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The spoils system.

Question 12

In the 1830's, Andrew Jackson believed all the following about the second bank of the U.S. Except that:

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The bank did not allow for the issuance of enough paper money to meet national demand.

Question 13

The national political parties of the second American party system were:

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Democrats and Whigs.

Question 14

In the early to mid 19th century, property, qualifications for voting:

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Continued in Virginia because large slaveholders dominated he states politics.

Question 15

The U.S. Supreme Court's 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:

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Supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.

Question 16

In his Cherokee nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice john Marshall stated that:

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Indians were wards of the federal government.

Question 17

A primary reason that both women and blacks were largely excluded from the expansion of democracy was:

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That both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage.

Question 18

How does the bank war demonstrate that Andrew Jackson enhanced the power of presidency?

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He identified himself as the symbolic representative of all people with his veto message that appealed directly to the public.

Question 19

Hard money in the 1830's referred to:

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Money backed by government guarantees.

Question 20

The force act of 1833:

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Gave the president authority to use military personnel to collect tariffs.

Question 21

Many of the members of Jacksons kitchen cabinet, as his group of close advisers was known, were:

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Newspaper editors.

Question 22

The panic of 1819:

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Prompted some states to suspend debt collections, which helped debtors but hurt creditors.

Question 23

The second bank of the U.S. Was created:

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By congress in 1816, with the support of president Madison.

Question 24

Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams suggested that the Missouri controversy of 1820-1821:

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Revealed a sectional divide that potentially threatened the union.

Question 25

In the presidential election of 1840:

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The Whigs employed political tactics pioneered by democrats.

Question 26

The Monroe doctrine:

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Declared the Americans off limits for further European colonization.

Question 27

As president, John Quincy Adams proposed a comprehensive plan for the activist state, which called for all of the following except:

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Free homesteads for settlers on western public land.

Question 28

In the first half of the 19th century, paper money:

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Promised to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of gold or silver.

Question 29

In response to he demand for internal improvements, president James Madison:

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Call for a constitutional amendment to empower the federal government to build roads and canals.

Question 30

Which of the following did not happen during the election of 1828?

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Andrew Jackson challenged Henry clay to a duel for having engineered his defeat in the corrupt bargain of 1824.

Question 31

The nullification crisis ended:

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With a compromise tariff.

Question 32

The panic of 1837:

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Was caused, in part, by a decline in British demand for American cotton.

Question 33

In the wake of the war of 1812, younger republicans like Henry clay and John Calhoun:

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Continued to support agrarianism, but believed that the nations economic independence required a manufacturing sector.

Question 34

By the 1830's, the term citizen in America had become synonymous with the right to:

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vote.

Question 35

Which is not true about the Whigs?

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Their strongest support came from the lower northwest and the southern backcountry.

Question 36

What was president Martin Van Buren's new solution to the problem of what to do about the federal governments relationship to banking?

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He proposed that federal funds be controlled by government officials rather than by bankers.

Question 37

Who wrote Exposition and Protest and emerged by the early 1830's as he most prominent spokesman for the right of nullification?

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John C. Calhoun.

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