TRUE&FALSE 10-13

The United States experienced a period of economic prosperity in the years after the War of 1812.

The Second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1826.

Support for the Tariff of 1816 came primarily from the South.

James Monroe was the first president from New York.

The "Era of Good Feelings" was marked by peace and prosperity.

Langdon Cheves was president of the Second Bank of the United States.

As a territory, Missouri had not allowed slavery.

The Missouri Compromise was almost undone when Missouri put into its constitution a provision excluding free blacks and mulattoes.

The Monroe Doctrine was part of President Monroe's annual message to Congress.

The Monroe Doctrine had no standing in international law.

Four presidential candidates received electoral votes in 1824.

John Quincy Adams displayed superb political skills during his term as president.

The election of 1828 saw many personal insults levied against the candidates.

Martin Van Buren was a native of North Carolina and had served two terms as that state's governor.

John C. Calhoun was born in South Carolina.

The Tariff of 1828 was also known as the "tariff of abominations."

In the midst of the nullification crisis, John C. Calhoun resigned as vice president.

President Jackson's response to the nullification crisis was to ask Congress to raise the tariff.

Osceola led the Seminole resistance to their removal from their lands.

The Cherokee Indians were forced westward on the route that came to be known as the Trail of Tears.

The Distribution Act provided for each veteran of the War of 1812 to receive 360 acres of land in the West.

During Jackson's presidency, the national debt grew smaller until it was paid off entirely in 1835.

Most Whigs were states' rights advocates.

Henry Clay was Andrew Jackson's second vice president.

Martin Van Buren opposed the establishment of an independent Treasury.

The Whig presidential candidate in 1840, William Henry Harrison, ran on the slogan "Log Cabin and Hard Cider."

Jacksonian democracy involved the extension of voting rights to blacks, Indians, and women.

The percentage of the native-born population in the South was high in comparison to other parts of the country

The "Old South" was a socially, culturally, and economically unified region of the United States.

Agricultural diversity in the Old South was practically nonexistent.

Tobacco was the first staple crop of the south.

Economically, the South was dependent on northern industry and commerce.

Plantation owners were unable to exert any significant political or economic influence over southern society.

The slave-holding planter class only made up a very small portion of the overall southern society.

The slave population in the South showed no significant growth between 1790 and 1830.

The Denmark Vesey plot was a slave insurrection in Charleston, South Carolina.

Many American Christians assumed that the United States had a God-mandated mission to provide the world with a shining example of republican virtue

Mormon leader Joseph Smith was an advocate of "monogamous marriage."

Horace Mann was a notable promoter of public schools.

The word teetotaler originated with a temperance society's use of the letter "T" to signify total abstinence.

A major change in attitudes toward prisons during the 1830s was the idea that prisoners could not be rehabilitated

The "cult of domesticity" banned women from joining any professions.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy argued that men and women should share equally in completing the work of the household's domestic sphere.

The women's rights movement secured the vote for women in several states before 1860.

The successful example of antebellum utopian communities converted many Americans to socialism.

The American Colonization Society established the African nation of Liberia as a new home for free American blacks.

William Lloyd Garrison published a militant anti-slavery newspaper called the Liberator.

Frederick Douglass was a black abolitionist.

John Quincy Adams advocated for the "gag rule" that stifled debate over slavery in Congress.

The intellectual defenses of slavery in the South admitted that the institution offered no benefits to blacks.